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Faculty Molly Greene Professor History Department and the Program in Hellenic Studies email: greene@princeton.edu I did my undergraduate work at Tufts University in the Political Science Department. My interests used to be very contemporary but are now focused on the 17th and 18th centuries. After I received my B.A. I lived in Athens, Greece for three years and Cyprus for one year. I also travelled in the Middle East during this time and came to the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton with the idea of studying modern Arab history. Under the inspiring influence of Professor Cemal Kafadar I switched to Ottoman history. I am particularly interested in the social and economic history of the Empire, and the experience of the Greek people under Ottoman rule. I received my PhD from the Department of Near Eastern Studies here at Princeton in January, 1993 with a dissertation I wrote on the Ottoman conquest of Crete in the late 17th century. The thesis was based on the Ottoman court records for the capital city, Kandiye (now Irakleion), which are in Crete. I am currently in the process of turning the thesis into a book with additional material from the State Archives of Venice. My work concentrates on the Mediterranean, with an eye to asking how Ottoman traditions of trade - by which I mean the cultural and social conventions underlying the conduct of business - fit into the larger world of Mediterranean commerce. I have just published a major article based on the thesis entitled Commerce and the Ottoman Conquest of Kandiye which appeared in New Perspectives on Turkey (10), Spring 1994. My position is a joint appointment between the History Department and the Program in Hellenic Studies and I have taught courses for both in the one and a half years that I have been teaching at Princeton. The courses I have taught include Mediterranean History 16th-20th Centuries and Greeks, Turks and Slavs: National Identity in the Balkans 15th-20th Centuries. This semester I will be teaching Culture and Commerce: Greeks, Jews and the End of the Ottoman Empire as well as co-teaching the graduate methodology course (History 500) which we offer to all incoming graduate students in the History Department. |
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