Introduction

Welcome! It is our pleasure to present to you the latest issue of JOTSA. The centerpiece of this issue is a special section on "Rum Geographies" guest edited by Christine Philliou. This special section includes a brief editorial introduction followed by four articles, each of which touch upon a different topic related to the experiences of Rum—Orthodox Greek Christians—populations in the Ottoman period. Together, these contributions bring to an Ottomanist audience invaluable historical, architectural, ethnographic, musicological, and geographic perspectives on a vibrant and multifaceted community that has long been overlooked in our field. As Christine Philliou notes in her introduction to this section, part of the process of adding Ottoman to the names of our association and our journal was a commitment to better capture the Ottoman Empire's incredible diversity and cultural complexity in all its forms. "Rum Geographies," and the empirically rich contributions that comprise it, are very much a step in this direction. We hope that our readers will enjoy perusing this special section, and we look forward to many future thematic collections that similarly expand our understanding of the Ottoman experience.

We are also delighted to feature standalone articles by Cailah Jackson, Linda Darling, Alexis Wick, Erik Blackthorne-O'Barr, and Arda Akıncı. These five articles address diverse themes and topics that span the entirety of the Ottoman past from its earliest days to its final years. A close read, however, will reveal many points of commonality between them, not least of which is the close and careful analysis of texts, primary and secondary, archival and printed, that each author engages in. Additionally, each of these contributions asks us to rethink or reconsider certain long-standing assumptions about important themes in Ottoman history including knowledge production and medicine in the early Ottoman era; the history and historiography of kanun and kanunname; the textual and epistemic contours of reform in the Tanzimat era; medicine, epidemiology, and the press in late–nineteenth century Istanbul; and the politics of spying in the Hamidian and Second Constitutional eras.

We are pleased to present the third installment of our Voices of Emerging Scholars series that includes eleven essays drawn from four webinars that took place from June through September 2021. These short essays are the output of the ongoing series of webinar workshops that aims to highlight the research of emerging scholars in late Ottoman and early Turkish Republican history, organized by our Editorial Board member and the inaugural Sakıp Sabancı Visiting Professor at Columbia, Zeynep Çelik, in collaboration with Columbia Global Centers Istanbul and Columbia University's Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies. In this issue, we present the workshop papers of the webinars five through eight with the goal of promoting the work of our junior colleagues. This issue of JOTSA concludes with ten book reviews showcasing the latest additions to scholarship in our field.

As always, we would like to express our appreciation to Indiana University Press and its staff for publishing and distributing the journal. JOTSA continues to be available online and in print. All issues of the Turkish Studies Association Journal (TSAJ), the Turkish Studies Association Bulletin (TSAB), and the Turkish Studies Association Newsletter are available on JSTOR and Project MUSE. Additionally, we thank all the anonymous reviewers who have so willingly given their time to peer-reviewing this issue's articles. We understand that this is a sacrifice of precious time and sincerely appreciate their efforts in making this a high-quality journal. We would like to thank the members of our Editorial Board and our dedicated team of Book Review Editors: Metin Atmaca (Ankara Sosyal Bilimler University), Choon Hwee Koh (UCLA), Senem Aslan (Bates College), Ayşecan Terzioğlu (Sabancı University), and Nilay Özok-Gündoğan (Florida State University).

JOTSA's editors and editorial board wish to thank the Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS) for its continued support of the journal in providing publication subvention funds, and Princeton University's Near Eastern Studies...