I am thrilled to welcome İrvin Cemil Schick to our third episode of Office Hours, and first episode on religion, a timelessly controversial topic.

İrvin is a historian who has taught at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Istanbul Şehir University. He has also held guest positions at Boston University, Sabancı University, Boğaziçi University, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where, fun fact, I had an exciting class with him last semester, and had the privilege of writing a paper about authoritarianism and technology in Turkey.

His current research interests are focused on cultural and intellectual history, the arts of the book, gender and sexuality, and human-animal relations, all in the context of Islam and particularly Turkey. He is the author, editor or co-editor of eleven books as well as numerous articles.

Welcome to the show İrvin.