BOOK PRESENTATION - Islam, Sultans, and the Printing Press
hosted by Professor
Eugene Finkel
Bogdan G. Popescu
Assistant Professor of Political Science, John Cabot University, Rome
Bogdan G. Popescu is Assistant Professor (tenured) in Political Science at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy.
Previously, he taught at the University of Oxford, and he was a postdoctoral researcher at Bocconi and Princeton. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago.
His research and teaching interests focus on state management in peripheral regions and their enduring ramifications. He draws on extensive archival research, and computational methods and employs quantitative analysis of observational data and narrative evidence.
His first book,
Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier (Cambridge University Press, 2023), focuses on how historical states adopt distinct institutions in border areas and their long-term consequences.
His second book,
Islam, Sultans, and the Printing Press scrutinizes the historical disparities between the Middle East and the West. It specifically investigates the long-term legacies of the delay in the adoption of the printing press in the Ottoman Empire.
His research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including
Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and
Quarterly Journal of Political Science, among others.
