Şevket Pamuk#
| Membership Number: | 3407 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | TURKEY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1994 to present Professor, Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History and Department of Economics, Boğaziçi University
- 2008, 01 to 2013, 12 Professor and Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science
- 2007 Visiting Professor, Departments of Economics and History, Northwestern University
- 1997 Visiting Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
- 1990 - 1991 and 1993-1994 Visiting Assistant and Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
- 1983 - 1993 Assistant and Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Villanova University
- 1980 - 1981 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
- 1978 - 1983 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Ankara
Fields of Scholarship
- Economic history of the Ottoman Empire, southeastern Europe, Middle East and modern Turkey
- Early modern Europe
- Monetary history
- Standards of living
- Prices and wages
- Institutions and institutional change
- Long term economic growth
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Co-Editor, European Review of Economic History, Oxford University Press
- 2012 Research Fellow, Economic History Programme, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London
- 2012 - 2014 President, Asian Historical Economics Society, association of Asian economic historians
- 2003 - 2005 President, European Historical Economics Society, association of European economic historians
- 2002 Thomas H. Cole Prize of the American Economic History Association for the best article (“Real Wages and Standards of Living in the Ottoman Empire, 1489-1914”)
- 2002 Fuat Köprülü Award of the Turkish Studies Association of North America for the best book published in Ottoman and Turkish Studies during 2000-2001 (A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire)
- 1999 - 2011 Member, Turkish Academy of Sciences (resigned in 2011 due to government intervention)
- 1996 - 1999 Associate Member, Turkish Academy of Sciences
