University of Toronto

CV For: Victor Ostapchuk

Education:

B.A. with Honors, 1977, University of Chicago, History
Ph.D., 1989, Harvard University, Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

Employment:

2004: University of Toronto, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Associate Professor
1999–2004: University of Toronto, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Assistant Professor
1993-1999: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Oriental Studies, Division Head
1993: Harvard University, Department of History, Lecturer

Research Specialization:

Ottoman military. Ottoman financial and timar systems. Ottoman Black Sea region and relations with the northern countries. Historico-archaeological study of Ottoman fortresses. Ottoman chronicles; comparison and analysis of Ottoman realities as viewed through narrative and documentary sources. Frontier history. History of the steppe. The Turks in Islamdom.

COURSES TAUGHT

Ottoman History, 1300–1800
Steppe Frontier in Islamic History
Introductory Turkish
Intermediate Turkish
Advanced Turkish
Ottoman Palaeography and Diplomatics
Ottoman Historical Texts

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

Editor-in-Chief "Studies in Ottoman Documents Pertaining to Ukraine and the Black Sea Countries," Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
Co-editor of H-Turk, a discussion list in Turkish and Ottoman Studies affiliated with the H-Net network
Member of the Middle East Studies Association of North America
Member of the Turkish Studies Association

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• War and diplomacy across steppe and sea: the Ottoman Black Sea frontier in the early seventeenth century (Cambridge: Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs), 440 pp. (in press).
  
  "Outpost of Empire: An Appraisal of Ottoman Building Registers as Sources for the Archaeology and Construction History of the Black Sea Fortress of Özi.” Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World 22 (2005): 150-88 [co-author Caroline Finkel].
  
  “Long-Range Campaigns of the Crimean Khanate in the Mid-Sixteenth Century.” Journal of Turkish Studies 29 (2004): 75–99.
  
  "The human landscape of the Ottoman Black Sea in the face of the Cossack naval raids." Oriente Moderno, n.s. 20 (2001): 23–95.
  
  "1648-1681 yillari arasinda Dogu Avrupa’da (Ukrayna, Rusya, Polonya, Türkiye) yeni bir düzen kurulma yolunda yapilan mücadeleler [The Struggle for a New Order in Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Turkey), 1648-1681]." Türk-Rus iliskilerinde 500 yil, 1491-1992, Ankara, 12-14 Aralik 1992. Ankara: Turk Tarih Kurumu, 1999 [2000], pp. 99–110.
  
  "Kozac'ki chornomorski poxody u morskij istoriji Kjatiba Chelebi [Cossack Black Sea naval campaigns in the naval history of Katib Chelebi]." Mappa mundi. Studia in honorem Jaroslavi Dashkevych septuagenario dedicata. New York, Kiev, Lviv: M. P. Kots, 1996, pp. 341–426 [lead author; co-author Oleksandr Halenko].
  
  "An Ottoman gazaname on Halil Pasha’s naval campaign against the Cossacks (1621)." Harvard Ukrainian Studies 14 (1990): 482–521.
  
  "Five documents from the Topkapi Palace Archive on the Ottoman defense of the Black Sea against the Cossacks (1639)." Journal of Turkish Studies 11 (1987): 49–104.
  
  "The publication of documents on the Crimean Khanate in the Topkapi Sarayi: The documentary legacy of Crimean-Ottoman relations." Turcica 19 (1987): 247–276.
  
  "Bohdan Xmel'nyc'kyj and the Porte: A document from the Ottoman archives." Harvard Ukrainian Studies 8 (1984): 453–73 [co-authored with András Riedlmayer].
  
  "The Publication of Documents on the Crimean Khanate in the Topkapi Sarayi: New Sources for the History of the Black Sea Basin." Harvard Ukrainian Studies 6 (1982): 500–28.