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Nir Shafir is a historian specializing in the Middle East, with a particular focus on the Ottoman Empire from 1400 to 1800. His research explores the histories of communication, religion, science, and technology. At the University of California, San Diego, he teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in early modern and medieval Middle Eastern history, history of science, global history, and the historical approaches to disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda. He is an occasional contributor and editorial board member of the Ottoman History Podcast, where he served as editor in 2018. His book, 'Order and Disorder in Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire', offers a unique and comprehensive insight into the world of books and education in the early modern Ottoman Empire, emphasizing the role of pamphlets in the socio-religious debates of the seventeenth century. Future projects aim to delve into the social history of the Turkish language and its connection to antiquity and antiquarianism in the early modern Middle East.
University of California, San Diego • La Jolla, California
Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in history focusing on early modern and medieval Middle East, history of science, and other aspects related to global history.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).