Şevket Pamuk is a leading economic historian and author of many books and articles on Ottoman, Middle East and European economic history. He is currently working on the economic history of the Ottoman Empire. In the Spring 2024 semester, Professor Pamuk will be teaching one undergraduate course and a graduate seminar at Harvard on the economic history of the Middle East.

Şevket Pamuk is retired Professor of Economics and Economic History at Bogaziçi (Bosphorus) University in Istanbul. He graduated from Yale University (1972) and obtained his PhD in Economics from University of California, Berkeley (1978). In addition to other universities in Turkey, Pamuk has also taught at Pennsylvania, Villanova, Princeton, Michigan at Ann Arbor and Northwestern universities in the United States. He was Professor and Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 2008 through 2013.

His books include The Ottoman Empire and European Capitalism, 1820-1913 (Cambridge, 1987); A History of the Middle East Economies in the Twentieth Century (with Roger Owen; I.B. Tauris and Harvard); A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire (Cambridge, 2000) ; and more recently, Uneven Centuries: Economic History of Turkey since 1820 (Princeton, 2018) which won the Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies of the British-Kuwait Friendship Society in the UK in 2019.  

Pamuk was President of European Historical Economics Society (2003-2005), President of Asian Historical Economics Society (2012-2014), Editor of European Economic History Review (2011-2014) and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, a member of Academia Europea and Science Academy, Istanbul.