Rate My Professor Charles Wilkins

Wilkins specializes in the social history of the Ottoman Empire during the Early Modern Period (1500-1800), focusing on the long-term social and cultural integration of Arab lands into the empire, particularly through studies of Ottoman Aleppo. His major publication is the monograph Forging Urban Solidarities: Ottoman Aleppo, 1640-1700 (Brill, 2010). Key articles include “Slavery and Household Formation in Ottoman Aleppo, 1640-1700” (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 2013) and “The Self-Fashioning of an Ottoman Urban Notable: Ahmad Efendi Tahazâde (d. 1773)” (Osmanlı Araştırmaları/The Journal of Ottoman Studies, 2014). He has contributed chapters such as “Masters, Servants, and Slaves: Household Formation in the Ottoman Empire” (The Ottoman World, Routledge, 2012) and “Ibrahim b. Khidr al-Qaramani (d. 1557), A Merchant and Urban Notable of Early Ottoman Aleppo” (Living in the Ottoman Realm, Indiana University Press, 2016). Wilkins is currently completing Lives Astride: A Social and Cultural History of Ottoman Aleppo, 1516-1918. Among his awards are the National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Fellowship (2015-2016), Stroupe Award for Excellence in Research from the Wake Forest History Department (2012-2013), Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Fellowship (1999-2000), American Research Institute in Turkey Research Fellowships (2010, 1999), and Turkish Studies Association Graduate Student Paper Prize (1996). He co-directs Wake Forest's Middle East & South Asia Studies Program.