Assistant Professor Charles L. Wilkins
Middle Eastern, Ottoman, Islamic
Tribble B-111
email: wilkincl@wfu.edu

Education:
B.A., Duke University
M.A., The Ohio State University
Ph.D., Harvard University

Courses Offered:
HST 104: World Civilizations Since 1500
HST 107: The Middle East and the World
HST 242: The Middle East Before 1500
HST 243: The Middle East Since 1500
HST 387: Islamic Empires Compared: The Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals
HST 388: Nation, Faith and Gender in the Middle East

Professional and Research Interests: Social history of the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Period (1500-1800): war and society, the family and household slavery, and the life of guilds; Islamic legal practice

Selected Publications:
“Households, Guilds and Neighborhoods: Social Solidarities in Ottoman Aleppo, 1640-1700.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 2006.

"Syrian Resources of Ottoman History: The Center for Historical Documents in Damascus." In Turk Arastırmaları Dergisi (The Turkish Studies Journal) (Istanbul) 11 (2002): 233-46.

"Aspects of the Social and Economic Structure of Early Nineteenth-Century Jaffa," Manarah (Amman) 1, 1 (1996), 85-107.