Website: https://dragomans.digital.utsc.utoronto.ca/
Description: A companion project to E. Natalie Rothman’s book “The Dragoman Renaissance,” this, collaboratory aims to facilitate research into the personal and professional trajectories and textual practices of dragomans (diplomatic interpreter-translators) employed by the Venetian consulate in Istanbul, from ca. 1550 to ca. 1750. More broadly, the project seeks to shed light on the role of dragomans — an important yet surprisingly under-studied group — in mediating sociopolitical and ethnolinguistic relations between the Ottoman and Venetian empires at a crucial point in their long entangled history.
Contributors:
- E. Natalie Rothman, Associate Professor, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough
- Ted Adamo, Research Assistant and PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Toronto
- Nick Field, Reference Specialist, Map & Data Library, University of Toronto Libraries and PhD Candidate, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto.
- Erdem Idil, Research Assistant and PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Toronto
- Mehmet Kuru, Instructor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabancı University
- Giovanna Licata, Research Assistant and PhD Candidate, Department of Italian, University of Toronto
- Sarah Loose, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Brigham Young University
- Vanessa McCarthy, Research Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Reniassance Studies, University of Toronto and Adjunct, Department of History, Queen’s University at Kingston
- Murat Yaşar, Associate Professor, History Department, State University of New York at Oswego
- Gülay Yılmaz, Associate Professor, Department of History, Akdeniz University
- Alice Shu Qi Yang, Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Ansh Sharma, Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Sanja Ljaskevic, Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Oleg Lavriv, Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Bindya Jairam, Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Matthew Kurtcu, Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Grant Waynmouth, Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Ibrahim Ibrahimov, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Funders: Connaught Summer Institute, Jackman Humanities Institute, SSHRC Standard Research Grant, SSHRC Insight Grant, Andrew Mellon Foundation, Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Government