Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano is a historian of the early modern Ottoman world. His research focuses on intellectual and cultural history and its connections to literature, poetry, and bureaucracy. His current book project, A Sea of Gossip: Truth and Imagination in the Early Modern Mediterranean, is a history of various forms of informal exchange of information that today we refer to as gossip, anecdote, or rumor, as they shaped and transformed the early modern Mediterranean. Aguirre-Mandujano’s first monograph, Occasions for Poetry: Politics, Literature and Imagination Among the Early Modern Ottomans (Penn Press, 2025), is a history of how Turkish poetry became the preferred mode for communicating, debating, and shaping the Ottoman political and social experience after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453. Aguirre-Mandujano is also co-organizer of the Baki Project. In 2011, he co-edited Sephardic Trajectories: Archives, Objects, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States (Koç University Press).