Abdulhamit Kırmızı is Professor of History at Marmara University, Turkey, and Senior Research Scientist at UCD, Ireland. After attending primary, middle and high schools in Marl, Germany, and Zonguldak, Turkey, he studied Public Administration at the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University and received an MA in history from Hacettepe University and a PhD in history from Boğaziçi University. He was Gerda Henkel Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia in Winter 2022/23; Visiting Professor at the Centre for Cultural Studies of the Middle East, Institute for Oriental Studies, University of Bamberg, Germany, in 2020/21; and Professor of History at the Istanbul Şehir University for ten years between 2010 and 2020, teaching Historiography, Auto/Biography, Late Ottoman History, Formations of Modern Turkey, Modern Turkish Bureaucracy, and Psychology, History and Memory. He was also a Visiting Fellow of the British Academy at SOAS, University of London, in 2009. His latest book is Empire of Officials: Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Bureaucracy (London & New York: I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2025). He is currently researching Bureaucratic Expansion and Capitalist Integration in the Ottoman Countryside as part of the ERC-funded CAPITALEAST project, at the University College Dublin, Ireland.