Michael Talbot Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

I am Associate Professor in the History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Middle East. I am passionate about teaching, having designed a number of courses related to my research interests, including 'Empire and Nation in the Middle East', 'Cities of the Sultans: Life in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire', and 'Making the Modern World'. I designed and led the School of Humanities and Social Sciences work placement modules. I also supervise doctoral students on relevant subjects and co-lead a PhD historiography discussion group. My classes are challenging, interactive, and rooted in a range of rich primary source material. My research explores Ottoman ideas of empire and relations with the wider world in a range of contexts, including Ottoman-British relations, which was the subject of my 2017, Ottoman Palestine, and Ottoman seas. My academic articles have been published in a number of leading journals. I am passionate about personal tutoring and academic advising, co-leading the university's UK Advising and Tutoring (UKAT) accreditation scheme and acting as an assessor for UKAT. Other roles in the university have included being lead for the Early Career Researcher's Network in my Faculty, which I established as an open, democratic, and empowering forum for early career researchers. I have been admissions and outreach officer for History.I am also involved in public engagement, providing expertise for the international media, including the BBC, El Mundo, and other major news outlets. I have appeared on BBC Radio 3 as one of the 10 'New Generation Thinkers' selected by the BBC and Arts and Humanities Research Council each year. In 2020 and 2022 I appeared as a talking head on and served as historical consultant for the hit Netflix docu-drama 'Rise of Empires: Ottoman'. I have worked with heritage and community partners to design exhibitions and events that bring history into the community.

London, England, United Kingdom

Project lead for student success strategy on personal tutoring and advising policy and practice. My role was to consult on staff and student experiences of existing personal tutoring and advising practices in order to develop a policy framework. This went alongside my work within the university's personal tutor training programme, and my strategic role within UK Advising and Tutoring (UKAT).

London, United Kingdom

I am a senior lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences specialising in the history of the Ottoman Empire. This role includes convening a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, contributing to the School's research profile, and expanding the scope of the department's specialisms to include the history of the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East.

London, United Kingdom

I am a lecturer in the Department of History, Politics, and Social Sciences specialising in the history of the Ottoman Empire. This role includes convening a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, contributing to the department's research profile, and expanding the scope of the department's specialisms to include the history of the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Summer school tutor for a number of courses on Ottoman and Middle Eastern history, including 'Creating an Empire: the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1575', 'Imperial transformations: the Ottoman Empire, 1575-1789', 'Reforms and Revolutions: the Ottoman Empire, 1789-1922' and 'The making of the modern Middle East, 1914-67'

Paris, Île-De-France, France

This position at Université Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) is as a postdoctoral researcher on the European Research Council project 'Mediterranean Reconfigurations', examining law and commercial litigation in the context of Ottoman Algiers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This involves extensive archival research in the UK, France, Italy, and Turkey, with a view to producing a number of publications.

Visiting lecturer teaching the courses 'The Ottoman Empire and Europe, 1453-1922' and 'Justice, Power, and Religion in the Islamic World: Shari'a Law Across History'

St Andrews

I was at St Andrews on a year-long lectureship. I contributed to a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses lecturing and taking tutorials and seminars on Ottoman history, mainly covering the period 1400-1800.Undergraduate courses taught:The Classical Ottoman EmpireIntroduction to Middle Eastern HistoryThe Early Modern Western WorldThemes in Late Modern HistoryDissertation supervisionPostgraduate course taught:Themes in Middle Eastern History and Politics

Key translator for a British Academy project, 'Islam, Trade, and Politics Across the Indian Ocean' translating Ottoman archival documents on relations with Southeast and East Asia from the 16th to 20th centuries. This has resulted in a major edited volume of Ottoman documents on the subject.

London Area, United Kingdom

Research assistant for Professor Fabian Waldinger’s projects on the expulsion of German Jewish science professors in the Nazi period and the impact on German academia and scientific development. The research involved data collection using the German Historical Institute in London and a range on digital databases.

I convened two courses on Ottoman and Middle Eastern history, which included designing and planning lectures and tutorials, and supervising dissertations and projects. I was nominated by my students for the SOAS Director's Teaching Prize for my teaching on my course 'Cities of Paradise and Empire', which examined the social and material history of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals in the early modern period.Undergraduate courses taught:Reform, Resistance, Revolution: The Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909Cities of Paradise and Empire: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals, 1400-1800

I took tutorials on the introduction to history module, and tutorials for a course on the history of the modern Middle East.

London, United Kingdom

Visiting lecturer, convening the undergraduate course 'Corsairs, Captives, and Converts, 1500-1800', examining interactions between North Africa, the Ottomans, and Christian Europe, with a particular focus on primary source analysis.

London, United Kingdom

Visiting lecturer, convening an undergraduate course, 'Ottoman History, 1300-1839'.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Ottoman History

Thesis: British diplomacy in the Ottoman Empire during the long eighteenth century

Master Of Arts - Ma, Near & Middle Eastern Studies With Israeli Studies, Distinction

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba (Hons), History