Tommaso Stefini is a social and economic historian of the early modern Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean. His research focuses on Ottoman-European commercial and political relations, the comparative history of Islamic and European legal and economic institutions, and Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the pre-modern Mediterranean. Before coming to Sabancı University, he earned his PhD from Yale University (2021) and was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute between 2021 and 2023. His publications have appeared in American, Turkish, French, and Italian academic journals and he is currently finishing his first book titled "Ordering Difference: Justice and Cross-cultural Trade between Istanbul and Venice in the Seventeenth Century"