Ariel Salzmann
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Education
Salzmann received her PhD from Columbia University in 1995. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Measures of Empire: Tax Farmers and the Ottoman Ancien Régime, 1695-1807. Before her appointment at Queen's University, she taught at the Pratt Institute, the University of Cincinnati, and New York University.
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Career and research
Salzmann published the book Tocqueville in the Ottoman Empire: Rival Paths to the Modern State with Brill in 2004. This book re-examined the political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of the French Revolution from an Ottoman perspective. Her journal article, published in Politics & Society (1993), won the Turkish Studies Association's Ömer Lutfi Barkan Article Prize: 'An Ancien Régime Revisted: Privatization and Political Economy in the 18th Century Ottoman Empire'. She received a National Endowment for the Humanities award in 1988, and an Americal Research Institute in Turkey Fellowship in 1999. She held a Senior Fellowship at the Research Centre for Anatolian Civilisations of Koç University in Istanbul in 2011. She was the first Canadian to be awarded a Fellowship at the centre. Salzmann's book The Exclusionary West: Medieval Minorities and the Making of Modern Europe is forthcoming with Hurst in 2026.
Further resources
- Podcast on the 20th anniversary of the Iraq war, with Adnan Husain