OHP Reblog: Slavery in a Global Context

This podcast is reblogged from our friends at Ottoman History Podcast (Ep. #46, 16 February 2012)

Slavery, the practice of owning human beings, is a nearly universal historical phenomenon that reached its global peak during the eighteenth century and remains present to this day. However, slavery has taken many different forms in different regions: plantation slavery, domestic slavery, concubinage, military slavery and the like, often predicated on difference of religion or race. In this episode, we discuss slavery as practiced in different regions of the world from the Atlantic to the Middle East to the Black Sea in a comparative perspective.


Elena Abbott is a PhD student at Georgetown University focusing on the history of the Atlantic during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Soha El Achi is a PhD student studying slavery and French colonialism in North Africa at Georgetown University
Michael Połczyński is a PhD student studying Ottoman and Polish history at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)
Chris Gratien is a PhD student studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)

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OHP Reblog: Sefer Muratowicz

This podcast is reblogged from our friends at Ottoman History Podcast (Ep. #48, 3 March 2012)

The early modern era was a period of tremendous fluidity in terms of borders of identities. In this podcast, we discuss the life and times of Sefer Muratowicz, an Armenian merchant born in Ottoman Anatolia during the late sixteenth century who settled in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and became an envoy to the Safavid Shah in Persia through his role as a merchant. Sefer left an account of his visit, which our guest Michael Polczynski has translated and analyzed. The account provides information about Sefer's journey as well as his diplomatic and mercantile activities, painting a picture in the process of some aspects of travel, diplomacy, and perhaps even espionage in borderlands regions during the early modern period.

Michael Połczyński is a PhD student studying Ottoman and Polish history at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)

Chris Gratien is a PhD student at Georgetown University studying the history of the modern Middle East (see academia.edu)

Fatih Çalışır is a PhD student at Georgetown University studying early modern Ottoman history (see academia.edu)

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OHP Reblog: Polish Migrants in the Ottoman Empire

This podcast is reblogged from our friends at Ottoman History Podcast (Ep. #14, 21 April 2011) 

The nineteenth century was a time period of considerably flux for minority populations that were caught in the middle of the conflicts between rival states. While Christian populations were frequently transferred from the Ottoman Empire to Christian areas and vice versa, this was not always the case. In this podcast, Michael Polczynski tells the story of one such exceptional group, emigrants from Poland who took up residence in the Ottoman Empire.


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Michael Połczyński is a PhD student studying Ottoman and Polish history at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)
Emrah Safa Gürkan is a PhD candidate studying Ottoman history at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)
Chris Gratien is a PhD student studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)

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OHP Reblog: Polonia Ottomanica

This podcast is reblogged from our friends at Ottoman History Podcast (Ep. #146, 19 February 2014)

Poland is not always remembered among the great imperial rivals of the Ottoman Empire such as Safavid Iran, the Habsburgs, and Muscovy within discussions of early modern European history. Yet, the longstanding and continuous interactions between the Polish and Ottoman worlds comprise an important component of the story of the European state system and its transformation. In this podcast, Michael Polczynski and Paulina Dominik offer an introduction to Ottoman-Polish relations and tell the stories of the first and last Polish embassies to the Ottoman Empire.


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Michael Polczynski is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the history of the Ottoman Empire and Eastern Europe (see academia.edu)
Paulina Dominik is a graduate of Oxford University's Department of Oriental Studies (see academia.edu)
Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East (see academia.edu)

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Polonia Ottomanica, a blog about historical interactions between the Ottoman and Polish worlds

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