Yusuf Ziya Karabıçak fut formé en histoire à l’Université Boğaziçi, Istanbul. Il a aussi reçu un master de la même université en 2012. Actuellement il est inscrit en cotutelle de thèse à l’Université McGill et à l’EHESS sous la direction conjointe de Tassos Anastassiadis et Nathalie Clayer.
Sa thèse focalise sur la transformation de la relation du patriarcat orthodoxe de Constantinople et de la structure ottomane de pouvoir à la fin du XVIII^e et au début du XIX^e siècles. Cette thèse traite des questions d’accroissement du pouvoir des ayan, des relations centre-périphérie, de la dissémination des idées révolutionnaire dans l’Empire ottoman, ainsi que de la soumission et de la loyauté de chrétiens orthodoxes au pouvoir ottoman.
Sa recherche a été soutenue par le Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et Culture et par des bourses de l’Ecole française d’Athènes. Yusuf a reçu le Vangelis Kechriotis Travel Grant et le Sydney N. Fisher Graduate Student Paper Prize de Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association en 2018. En 2019, il sera basé à Mainz grâce à l’obtention d’une bourse doctorale du Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte.

Yusuf Ziya Karabıçak has completed undergraduate and graduate studies at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies in a joint Phd program McGill University (Montreal) and EHESS (Paris) under the supervisions of Tassos Anastassiadis and Nathalie Clayer respectively.
His dissertation focuses on the transforming place of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Ottoman power structure of late 18^th and early 19^th centuries. It treates questions of the rise of great ayans in the Balkans, center-periphery relationships, the dissemination of revolutionary ideologies in the Ottoman Empire as well as the submission and loyalty of Orthodox Christians to the Ottoman power.
His research has been supported by the Fonds de recherche du Quebec -Société et Culture, and through scholarships at the French School at Athens. He has received the Vangelis Kechriotis Travel Grant and the Fisher Graduate Paper Prize for best article of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association in 2018. In 2019, he will be based in Mainz thanks to a PhD Fellowhip by the Liebniz Institute for European History.

Intérêts scientifiques / Scientific interests

Le patriarcat orthodoxe de Constantinople / Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople

Diplomatie ottoman / Ottoman diplomacy

Lumières néohelléniques / Modern Greek Enlightenment

Champs / Fields

Histoire de l’Empire ottoman / Ottoman History

Histoire des concepts / Conceptual history

Europe du sud-est / South-Eastern Europe

Enseignements / Teaching activities

2016 – 2017 : Organisation du séminaire / Course Instructor

HIST 310 : Revolutions and Dictatorships in Southern Europe (McGill University)

2014 – 2015 : Chargé de travaux dirigés / Teaching Assistant

HIST 214 : Introduction to European History (McGill University)

HIST 215 : Modern European History (McGill University)

HIST 362 : Byzantine History and Historiography (McGill University)

2012 – 2013 : Assistant de recherche / Research Assistant

ERC Research Project "Islamisation of Anatolia, c. 1100-1500," School of History, St Andrews University

Publications

The Development of Ottoman Policies towards Greek Associations, 1861-1912, Istanbul: Libra, 2014.

“Angeliaforos Çocuklar için ve Osmanlı Devleti’nde Yayınlanan Diğer Çocuk Gazeteleri: Modern Çocukluk Söyleminin Oluşumu”, Toplumsal Tarih, No. 215, Novembre 2011.

Autres activités scientifiques / Other scientific activities

Traduction / Translation : Haris Exertzoglou, « Oi hamenes patrides » Pera apo th nostalgia, Athens : Nefeli, 2011. Traduction en Turc / Translation to Turkish, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 2015.