Dr Onur Engin

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Faculty of Music & Darwin College
email: oe239@cam.ac.uk

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I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge and a member of Cambridge Digital Humanities. I am working on an ERC Starting Grant funded by UKRI, titled “Ottoman Auralities and the Eastern Mediterranean: Sound, Media, and Power, 1789-1914.” I earned my PhD in Art History from Koç University in Istanbul.

My book project, Echoes over the Bosphorus: An Auditory History of Late Ottoman Istanbul (1826-1923), focuses on three sound-producing devices, church bells, cannons, and talking machines, as organizing principles to examine the city's modernization from the perspectives of sound, hearing, and listening. I also employ computational methodologies, such as digital cartography and textual analysis, to investigate the concepts of noise in the Ottoman Empire.

Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) Affiliate Member