Hasan Karataş, a historian of the early modern Ottoman Empire, is a visiting assistant professor in the History Department at Wesleyan University. Dr. Karataş earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (2011). He worked at New York University and the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, before moving to Istanbul, where he serves as the chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and the director of the Center for Research in Science and Society at Istanbul Technical University. Dr. Karataş’s research and teaching concentrate on science, Sufism, historiography, and urban history. He published numerous articles and book chapters and is currently working on his monograph tentatively titled Urban Agency in the Age of Ottoman State Building: The Halvetiyye’s Sojourn in Amasya.