Taught at :

University of Ankara, Department of Economics (1978-83).
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Economics (1980-81).
Villanova University, Department of Economics (1983-1993).
(Assistant Professor, Associate Professor with tenure)
Princeton University, Department of Near Eastern Studies (1990-91 and 1993-94).
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Department of Economics (1990, 1991).
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Department of History (1997).
Northwestern University, Departments of Economics and History (2007).
Boğaziçi (Bosphorus) University, Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History and Department of Economics (1994 to the present) (Professor).
London School of Economics and Political Science, European Institute, 2008-

Professional Activities, Affiliations :

2003-2005 President, European Historical Economics Society, association of European economic historians.

September 2005 Organizer, Sixth Biennial Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Istanbul.

2003-2007 Member, Board of Trustees, European Historical Economics Society, association of European economic historians.

2005-2007 Member, Executive Council, Academy of Sciences of Turkey

1999- Member, Academy of Sciences of Turkey

1998-2006 Member, Executive Committee, International Economic History Association.

2000-2004 Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs (Provost), Bogazici University

2006- Research Fellow, Economic Research Forum (for Middle East and North Africa), Cairo

2006- Member, Editorial Board, Global Economic History Series, Brill Publishers.

2003 : Member, Outside Evaluation Team, Economic Research Forum, Cairo.

2000-2006 Global Price and Income History Group, Member, Steering Committee, international research project funded by the US National Science Foundation.

1994-1999 Associate Member, Academy of Sciences of Turkey

1999-2002 Member, Standing Committee on the Humanities, European Science Foundation.

2000-2001 Director, Center for European Studies, Boğaziçi University

1998-2001 Director, Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Boğaziçi University

1996-2003 Member and Deputy Chair, Board of Directors, Economic and Social History Foundation of Turkey, Istanbul.

1993-2000 Director, Historical Statistics Project,
State Institute of Statistics of Turkey, Ankara; published 8 volumes.

2008- Member, Editorial Board, The Journal of Economic History, published by Cambridge University Press.

2000- Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Turkish Studies, published at the University of Wiscosin.

1997- Member, Editorial Board, European Review of Economic History, published by Cambridge University Press.

1996-1999 Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Middle East Studies, published by Cambridge University Press.

1987- Co-founder and Member, Editorial Board, New Perspectives on Turkey, an academic journal of social science and history.

1993-1999 Co-Editor, New Perspectives on Turkey, an academic journal of social science and history published in English at Istanbul.

1992-1996 Member, Joint Committee on the Near and
Middle East, Social Science Research Council and The American Council of Learned Societies.

Selected Prizes and Awards :

January-February 2006: Global Economic History Network (GEHN) Research Fellowship, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.

November 2005: Plenary Speaker, Annual Meeting of the Economic and Social History Association of Portugal, Evora.

2002 : Thomas H. Cole Prize of the American Economic History Association for the best article to appear in The Journal of Economic History during 2001-2002 (“Real Wages and Standards of Living in the Ottoman Empire, 1489-1914”)

2002 : Fuat Köprülü Award of the Turkish Studies Association of North America for the best book published in Ottoman and Turkish Studies during 2000-2001 (A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire).

2001- Runner-Up, Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) (A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire).

1999 : Sedat Simavi Award of the Turkish Journalists’ Association for the best study in Social Sciences published in 1999 (Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda Paranın Tarihi).

1992 : Mustafa Parlar Research Achievement Award for Young Social Scientists, Ankara for publications in Ottoman-Turkish economic history.

1986-87 : Post-doctoral Research Fellowship by the Social Science Research Council, New York for the project : “War, Economy and Society in Turkey, 1939-1945”.

Current Research :

Modern Economic Growth in Turkey since 1800: The final product will be a book attempting to explain Turkey’s absolute and comparative economic growth performance in terms of its political economy and institutions.

Modern economic growth in the Balkans and the Middle East since 1800.

Economy and economic institutions in the Ottoman Empire, in European perspective 1500-1800