Department of History
- Tuna Artun
- Assistant Professor of History
- Degree: Ph.D., Princeton University
- Rutgers : At Rutgers since 2012
- Specialty: Early Modern Ottoman Empire: History of Science
- Email: tuna.artun@rutgers.edu
- Office: 002A Van Dyck Hall
- Phone: 848-932-8502
- Research Interests: I am a historian of the late medieval and early modern Middle East and Balkans. My work deals with the social and cultural history of knowledge in the Ottoman world, with a particular focus on alchemy. As a researcher, I have a variety of other interests, including Byzantine history, natural and occult sciences in the Greco-Islamic tradition, and Sufism. I am currently turning my dissertation, which studied the production of alchemical knowledge in the long-seventeenth century, into a book manuscript.
