Yasir Yılmaz

Yasir Yılmaz (b. 1982, Ankara) is a graduate of Public Finance and has completed his MA in Ottoman History at Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey), where his doctoral supervisor was Halil İnalcık. Yılmaz then received a PhD (2015) in early modern Habsburg and European History from Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN, USA) where he worked with Habsburg historian Charles W. Ingrao. Yılmaz worked as an Assistant Professor at Palacký University (Olomouc, Czech Republic, 2016–2020) and held a visiting professor position at the Innsbruck University (2019–2020). Yılmaz held an Ernst Mach Stipendium as a doctoral student and a Richard Plaschka Stipendium as a post-doc researcher from the OeAD. Since 2020, he has been working as a full-time member of the QhoD project where he edits German and Ottoman sources of Habsburg-Ottoman diplomacy. He is also working on his first book The Road to 1683: A New History of the Second Ottoman Siege of Vienna, which will be published by the Edinburgh University Press and will be his Habilitation work. Since 2016, Yilmaz has been regularly teaching undergraduate and graduate courses at Czech and Austrian Universities, concerning the history of Islamic world-European encounters, the history of Ottoman-European diplomacy, and comparative histories of the Ottoman, Habsburg, and Russian empires.

CV updated on 2023-10-16.