Ariel Salzmann

Ariel Salzmann is associate professor of Islamic and World History at Queen's University Canada. She specialises in global capitalism, the Ottoman Empire, political systems and state formation.

Education

Salzmann received her PhD from Columbia University in 1995. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Measures of Empire: Tax Farmers and the Ottoman Ancien Régime, 1695-1807.[1] Before her appointment at Queen's University, she taught at the Pratt Institute, the University of Cincinnati, and New York University.

Career and research

Salzmann published the book Tocqueville in the Ottoman Empire: Rival Paths to the Modern State with Brill in 2004.[2] This book re-examined the political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of the French Revolution from an Ottoman perspective. Her journal article, published in Politics & Society (1993), won the Turkish Studies Association's Ömer Lutfi Barkan Article Prize: 'An Ancien Régime Revisted: Privatization and Political Economy in the 18th Century Ottoman Empire'. She received a National Endowment for the Humanities award in 1988, and an Americal Research Institute in Turkey Fellowship in 1999.[3] She held a Senior Fellowship at the Research Centre for Anatolian Civilisations of Koç University in Istanbul in 2011. She was the first Canadian to be awarded a Fellowship at the centre.[4] Salzmann's book The Exclusionary West: Medieval Minorities and the Making of Modern Europe is forthcoming with Hurst in 2026.[5]

Bibliography

  • 'The Education of an Ottomanist: Donald Quataert and the Narrative Arc of Ottoman Historiography, 1985-2011', History From Below: A Tribute in Memory of Donald Quataert, eds. Selim Karahasanoğlu and Deniz Cenk Demir (2016)
  • 'Migrants in Chains: On the Enslavement of Muslims in Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe', Religions. Special Issue: Islam, Immigration, and Identity (2013)
  • Tocqueville in the Ottoman Empire: Rival Paths to the Modern State (Brill, 2004)
  • 'The Age of Tulips: Confluence and Conflict in early modern Consumer Culture (1500–1730)', Consumption Studies and the History of the Ottoman Empire ed. Donald Quataert (State University of New York Press, 2000)
  • 'An Ancien Régime Revisted: Privatization and Political Economy in the 18th Century Ottoman Empire', Politics & Society (1993)

References

  1. ^ "Making sure you're not a bot!". clio.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2025-09-24.
  2. ^ Salzmann, Ariel (2003-12-01). Tocqueville in the Ottoman Empire: Rival Paths to the Modern State. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-474-0014-1.
  3. ^ "Efe Khayyat and Ariel Salzmann — On the Perils of Thinking Globally while Writing Ottoman History: God's Shadow and Academia's Self-Appointed Sultans". b2o: boundary 2 online. 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2025-09-24.
  4. ^ Jumphost (2011-02-03). "Professor to take Turkish fellowship". The Queen's Journal. Retrieved 2025-09-24.
  5. ^ "The Exclusionary West | Hurst Publishers". HURST. Retrieved 2025-09-24.

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