Zahit Atçıl is an Associate Professor of Early Modern Ottoman History at Bogazici University, Istanbul. He finished my Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. His work focuses on Ottoman diplomatic history, Ottoman bureaucracy and Ottoman state formation in early modern period. He is currently working on a book about the life and career of Rustem Pasha. He is also working on the institution of Ottoman vizierate. In 2020, he received the Outstanding Young Sceintists Award (GEBIP) from the Turkish Academy of Sciences. He is Young Academy Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences. His select publications include: 

Zahit Atçıl, Ercüment Asil ve Cemal Atabaş (ed.), Osmanlı’da İlm-i Tarih (İstanbul: İSAR Yayınları, 2023)

Zahit Atçıl, “Bir Serüven Olarak İslam Tarihi: Marshall G.S. Hodgson ve İslam’ın Serüveni” İslam Araştırmaları Dergisi, n. 43 (2020): 183-193.

Zahit Atçıl, “The Foundation of Peace Oriented Foreign Policy in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire: Rüstem Pasha’s Vision of Diplomacy,” in Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court, c. 1500-1630, ed. Tracey Sowerby and Christopher Markiewicz (New York: Routledge, 2021), 132-152.

Zahit Atçıl, “Warfare as a Tool of Diplomacy: Background of the First Ottoman-Safavid Treaty in 1555,” Turkish Historical Review, v. 10, n. 1 (2019), 3-24.

Zahit Atçıl, “Why did Süleyman the Magnificent execute his son Şehzade Mustafa in 1553?”, Osmanlı Araştırmaları/The Journal of Ottoman Studies, no. XLVIII (2016), 67- 103.