Assoc. Prof. HARUN TUNCER

Harun Tuncer was born in 1984 in Üsküdar, Istanbul. He completed his primary, secondary, and higher education in Istanbul. In 2008, he graduated from Istanbul University with a degree in English Language and Literature. He worked for 13 years in various publishing houses as an editor and translator. Between 2010 and 2012, he completed his Master's degree at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in the Department of History with a thesis titled "A Bridge Between East and West: James William Redhouse." In 2012, he began his doctoral studies in the same department and completed his dissertation in June 2019, with a doctoral thesis titled "British Missionary Activities in the Ottoman Empire 1839-1861." Tuncer has taught courses in Ottoman Turkish and Paleography at Istanbul Aydın University for three years, as well as Digital Humanities at Istanbul Medipol University. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Turkish History at the Istanbul University Institute of Turkish Studies. Tuncer has authored, translated, and adapted more than ten books in total.