Dr. Ana Sekulić is a historian of the early modern Ottoman world and Southeastern Europe interested in intersections of religion, culture, and environment. She holds a doctorate in History from Princeton University, and prior to joining History Department, she was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and UCIS Postdoctoral Fellow in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Her doctoral dissertation "Conversion of the Landscape: Environment and Religious Politics in an Early Modern Ottoman Town" won Malcolm H Kerr Dissertation Award by Middle Eastern Studies Association. Her current projects include the exploration of the intersections of conversion, gender, and sexuality in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Balkans as well as cultural histories of the classic Balkan landscape—the karst. Ana is also a co-founder and co-editor of the Women* Write the Balkans, an online platform dedicated to exploring multilayered realities of the region and showcasing writing that weaves together experience and expertise, scholarship and storytelling by women and non-binary authors.
Teaching:
The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923
Empire and Environment in World History
Christian-Muslim Relations
Balkan History
“From a Legal Proof to a Historical Fact: Trajectories of an Ottoman Document in a Franciscan Monastery, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 62, 2019: 915-952.
“Franciscan Order of Things: Empire, Community, and Archival Practices in the Monasteries in Ottoman Bosnia,” Comparative Southeast European Studies 70 (4), 2022: 642-666.
“The Ahdname of Bosnia: Diplomacy, Hagiography, Memory” Turcica 53, 2022: 233- 266.
“What’s in Ahdname,” New Lines Magazine
