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Publications
Books
Yonca Köksal and Davut Erkan, Sadrazam Kıbrıslı Mehmed Emin Paşa'nın Rumeli Teftişi, Istanbul: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi, 2007, 578 p.
Articles
With Dilek Barlas, "Teaching a State Required Course: History of the Turkish Revolution", Turkish Studies, Sept 2011, forthcoming
"Transnational Networks and Kin States: The Turkish Minority in Bulgaria, 1878-1940," Nationalities Papers, 38/2 (2010): 191-211.
Economic and Social Life in Late Seventeenth Century Istanbul: The Istanbul Court Records of 1696-1698 AD, unpublished MA. Thesis.
Chapter in Books
"Transnational Connections of Minorities in the Age of Nationalism: Turks in Bulgaria and Kurds in Turkey, 1878-1940," in Shifting Boundaries: Nationalism and Transnationalism in South East Europe, eds. Kerem Öktem and Dimitar Bechev, Brill, forthcoming in 2011.
"Sosyal Kontrol Sistemleri: 19. Yüzyıl Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda Devlet- Toplum İlişkileri" [Systems of Social Control: State-Society Relations in the 19th Century Ottoman Empire], in Tarihsel Sosyoloji: Stratejiler, Sorunsallar ve Paradigmalar, eds. F. Ergut & A. Uysal, Ankara: Dipnot Yayınları, 2007, pp. 111-142.
Conference Proceedings
"Land Reform in Northwestern Bulgaria during the Tanzimat Era", Perspectives on Ottoman Studies, Papers from CIEPO 18, Zagreb, eds. Ekrem Causevic, Nenad Moacanin and Vjeran Kursar, Berlin: LIT Verlag Publishing House, 2010.
"State Reforms and Regional Variation: Tanzimat Policies in Rumelia and Ankara", Conference Proceedings, International Workshop: New Approaches to the 19th Century Middle East and the Balkans-The Construction of the Ottoman Modern State, Papers and Discussions, National Institute for the Humanities: National Museum of Japanese History, Sakura, Japan, June 2007, pp. 38-43 (in Japanese).
With Davut Erkan, "Tanzimat Döneminde Bulgaristan", Osmanli ve Cumhuriyet Döneminde Türk-Bulgar Iliskileri Sempozyumu, Osmangazi Üniversitesi: Osmanpazari Belediyesi Yayinlari, 2005, pp. 367-372.
"Inclusion and Exclusion: Ethnic Politics in Bulgaria and Turkey", The Oxford Symposium on (Trans)nationalism in Southeast Europe, St Antony's College, University of Oxford, 17-19 June 2005. http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/esc/esc-lectures/koksal.pdf
"The Application of the Tanzimat Reforms in Bulgaria: State Building in the Ottoman Empire (1839-1878)", electronic publication of Kokkalis Program, Harvard University, 1999. http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/kokkalis/GSW1/GSW1/11%20Koksal.pdf
Book Reviews
"Turks in World History by Carter V. Findley", Book Review, New Perspectives on Turkey, Fall 2007, pp. 228-231.
"Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State: Evolving Identities, Competing Loyalties, and Shifting Boundaries by Hakan Özoglu", Book Review, New Perspectives on Turkey, Fall 2005, pp. 227-230.
Presentations/Conferences
"Strategies of Rule: Provincial Administration in the Tanzimat Era", 12th International Congress of Ottoman Economic and Social History (ICOSEH), 11-15 July 2011, Retz , Austria.
Workshop Leader, Collaboration and Technology in International Online Learning Environments - Constructing a New Paradigm, 3rd Conference of SUNY Center for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), March 31 - April 1, 2011.
"A Network Perspective: Issues and Problem in Studying Provincial Reforms during the Tanzimat Era", World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), UAB Campus, Barcelona, July 19-24th 2010.
"Transnational Connections and Kin States: Turkish Minority in Bulgaria", Istanbul Bilgi University, Seminars on International Relations, May 17th, 2010.
"The Impact of Europe on Ottoman Modernization during the Tanzimat Era (1839-1878)", Workshop on Ottoman/Turkish Culture and Society, PEECS, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Dec 11 2009.
"Between Old and New: Turkish Minority in Bulgaria, 1878-1940", ASN Annual Convention, Columbia University, New York, April 23-25th, 2009.
"Land Reform in Northwestern Bulgaria during the Tanzimat Era", CIEPO-International Committee Of Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies 18th Symposium Zagreb, August 25-30th, 2008.
"Urban Space and Nationalism: Changing Local Networks in the 19th Century Ottoman Empire," Workshop on Space and Nationalism, organized by the Editorial Board of the book series "Social and Historical Studies on Greece and Turkey", Chios, June 6-8th, 2008.
"The Nation-State Creating Transnational Groups: Cases of Bulgaria and Turkey", Oxford Symposium on Nationalism in a Transnational Context, St. Antony's College, Oxford University, July 6-8 2007.
"State Reforms and Local Networks in Ninetenth Century Ottoman Empire" International conference on the Application of the Tanzimat Reforms, University of Haifa, Israel, June 10-14, 2007.
"State Reforms and Regional Variance: Tanzimat Policies in Bulgaria and Anatolia," Workshop on New Approaches to the Nineteenth-Century Middle East and Balkans, Chiba University, Japan, January 13-14, 2006.
"Centralization and Intermediaries in the 19th Century Ottoman Empire", Copeland Colloquium, Amherst College, April 12, 2006.
"Ottoman Bulgaria in the 19th Century", Social Science Seminar Guest Speaker Series, Sabanci University, Istanbul, November 22, 2005.
"Systems of Social Control: The Ottoman State and the Question of State-Society Relations in the 19th Century", Historical Sociology: Strategies, Questions, Paradigms, 5th International Congress of History, METU, Ankara, 25-28 October 2005.
"Struggling to Define the Nation: Minority Politics in Bulgaria and Turkey", The Oxford Symposium on (Trans-)Nationalism in South East Europe, South East European Studies at Oxford The Kokkalis Programme, Harvard University, St. Antony's College, Oxford, 17-19 June 2005.
"Ethnic Politics after Empire: Muslim Minorities in Greece and Turkey", Annual Meeting of World History Association, Al-Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco, June 26-29 2005.
"Reform in Ottoman Bulgaria", Eskisehir, Osmanli ve Cumhuriyet Döneminde Türk-Bulgar Iliskileri Uluslararasi Sempozyumu, Osmangazi Üniversitesi May 11-13, 2005.
"Regional variance and State Reforms", Nineteenth Century Ottoman History Seminar, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, December 6, 2004.
"Struggling to Define Nationhood: Ethnic Politics and Imperial Legacies in Bulgaria and Turkey", Nationalities and Pluralisms From Old to New Worlds, Special Warsaw ASN Convention, Centre for East European Studies, Warsaw University, Poland, July 18-21, 2004.
"Making Sense of Variance: The Tanzimat Reforms in the Balkans and Central Anatolia",Pouvoirs et Territoires en Turquie Contemporaine, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches administratives, politiques et sociales Faculté des Sciences juridiques, politiques et sociales Université de Lille II, Istanbul, June 13-20, 2004.
"Rethinking Empires and Nationalism: State Reforms and Local responses in the 19th Century Ottoman Empire", International Conference organized in honor of Charles Tilly, on Mediterranean Themes, University of Crete, Rethimno, Greece, October 17-18, 2003.
"From Empire to a Nation-State: State Projects and Local Identities in the Nineteenth Century Ottoman Province of Edirne", Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, August 16-19, 2003.
"Innovation in Teaching a State Controlled Course: History of the Turkish Revolution", International Conference on Higher Education, Kiev, Ukraine, May 16-19, 2003.
"Local Cooperation and Conflict: Tanzimat Reforms in the Province of Edirne (1839-1878)", The Balkans: Mapping Identities, Center for Advanced Study in Sofia, Bulgaria, Oct 18-20, 2002.
"Tribal Settlements in Ankara in the Tanzimat Period", Contentious Politics Workshop, February 4, 2002, Columbia University, New York.
"State Officials and Intermediaries: State Expansion in Frontier Areas", Regular Session in the Annual Meeting of American Historical Association, San Francisco, January 3-6, 2002.
"Coalition and Conflict: Non-Muslim Communities in the Province of Edirne in the Tanzimat Period (1839-1878)", Workshop on "Localities and Empire: Approaches to 'Ottoman/Greek' Society and Culture," co-organized by Princeton University Hellenic Studies Department, U.S. Embassy in Athens, Historical Archives of Vathi, Samos, Prefecture and Municipality of Samos, September 14-17, 2001, Samos, Greece.
"Loose Networks and Prominent Brokers: Provincial Administration in Ankara, Tanzimat Reforms (1839-1878)", Contentious Politics Workshop, April 16, 2001, Columbia University, New York.
Discussant, Panel entitled Rethinking Ethnopolitical Mobilization in the Balkans, at the 4th Annual Convention of Association for the Study of Nationalities, 5-7 April, 2001, Columbia University, New York.
"The Application of Tanzimat Reforms in Bulgaria: State-Building in the Ottoman Empire (1839-1878)", presented at "New Approaches to Southeastern Europe" conference organized by Minda de Ginzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, February 12-14, 1999.