Prof Dr Gábor J Ágoston

Prof Dr Gábor J Ágoston

born and educated in Hungary

M.A. (1984) Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary), History and Turkish Studies

Doctor Universitatis (1986) Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary), Medieval Hungarian History

Ph.D. (1994) Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Ottoman History

1985–1998 Teacher of Hungarian, Ottoman and Balkan history at the Universities of Budapest and Pecs (JPTE)

since 1998 Faculty member of Georgetown’s History Department, where he teaches courses on Ottoman and Middle Eastern history, the Balkans and the Black Sea / Associate Professor at Georgetown University

2003 Gastprofessor at the Institute of History, University of Vienna, Austria

Field of research: Ottoman military, economic and social history from the fifteenth through the late eighteenth centuries, early modern Hungarian history, and the comparative study of the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires