GTOT Prizes 2025 for Outstanding Theses and Dissertations in the Fields of Turkology, Ottoman Studies, and Turkish Studies
For the fourth time, the Society for Turkology, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (GTOT) has awarded the GTOT Prizes for outstanding theses and dissertations in the fields of Turkology, Ottoman Studies, and Turkish Studies to early-career researchers. This year, the award ceremony will take place as part of the Turkologentag 2025 on 19 September in Mainz.
The committee for the Dissertation Prize consisted of:
- Maurus Reinkowski (University of Basel) (Chair)
- Hülya Çelik (Ruhr University Bochum)
- Lea Nocera (University of Naples L’Orientale)
- Ani Sargsyan (University of Hamburg)
The committee for the Prize for the Best Master’s Theses included:
- Gül Şen (University of Bonn) (Chair)
- Yavuz Köse (University of Vienna)
- Claudia Römer (University of Vienna)
- Benjamin Weineck (University of Heidelberg)
We are pleased to announce the 2025 awardees:
Best Dissertation in the Field of Ottoman Studies / Turkish Studies:
Meriç Tanık (EHESS, Paris), Y a-t-il une science ottomane? Circulation des savoirs et fabrique des disciplines agronomique, forestière et vétérinaire (1840–1940)
Best Master’s Theses in the Field of Ottoman Studies:
Fatih Doğan (Sabancı University), Lawmaking in an Ottoman Frontier Province at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century: the Mufti of Akkirman, His Fatwas and Authority
Katharina Krause (University of Oxford), A Matter of Morals. Writing about Yemen in the Late Ottoman Empire (1908–1912)