Işın Taylan is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Vici-project “Daily Bread. A Comparative Urban History of Early Modern Food Protests’’. She was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rijksmuseum and previously taught as a lecturer at Yale University. She completed her Ph.D. in History at Yale University in 2022. Her dissertation, ‘’A History of the Ottoman Atlas: The Material Culture of Geographical Knowledge in the Ottoman Empire’’, examined material manifestations of scientific changes in Ottoman atlases.