1999 – 2000
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (1999-2000):
Dr. Owen Doonan, University of Illinois, Classics and Archaeology, Sinope Regional Survey I: the Near Hinterland Survey
Dr. Mine Ener, Villanova University, History, Providing for the Poor of Late-Ottoman Istanbul
Dr. Ariel Salzmann, New York University, Near East Studies, Fluid Frontier: States, Markets, and the Making of Economic Subjects in the Eastern Mediterranean (1739 – 1789)
Dr. Lucienne Thys-Şenocak, History, Koç University, The Ottoman Fortifications of Kumkale and Seddulbahir
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT-USIA-NMERTA POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS (1999-2000):
Dr. Bradley Parker, History, University of Utah, The Talavaş Tepe Indigenous Cultures Project
Dr. Nicholas Rauh, History, Purdue University, Amphora Production and Kiln Sites in Western Rough Cilicia
NMERTA fellowships were supported by funds administered by the United States Information Agency for the Near and Middle East Research and Training Act.
ARIT-USIA-NMERTA PRE-DOCTORAL FELLOWS (1999-2000):
Mr. Isa Blumi, Middle East Studies, New York University, The Consequences of Empire: the Ottoman Empire and the Emergence of National Identity in Albania and Yemen, 1874-1918
Ms. Sarah Brooks, Art and Archaeology, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, Commemoration of the Dead: Late Byzantine Tomb Decoration (mid-13th to mid-15th Centuries)
Mr. Christopher Dole, Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, Religious Healing and Muslim Identity within a Turkish Squatter Settlement
Ms. Kathryn Ebel, Geography, University of Texas, Austin, Images of Empire: City Views and the Ottoman Imperial Vision in the 16th Century
Mr. Howard Eissenstat, History, University of California, Los Angeles, Turkic Immigrant Communities in the Republic of Turkey
Ms. Jennifer Grocer, Anthropology, University of Texas, Discourses of Affiliation: Turkey’s Post-Soviet Relations with the Turkic Republics of Central Asia
Mr. Kevin Meskill, Anthropology, Indiana University, The Implications of Religious Schooling in Turkey: Education, Identity, and Religious Mobilization
Mr. Michael Reynolds, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, Ottoman Foreign Policy toward Russia, 1908-1922: Identity, Ideology, and Geopolitics
Ms. Sonya Suponcic, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Daily Practice at Çatal Höyük: the Role of Clay Balls in Everyday Life
Mr. Charles Wilkins, Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, Elite Households in 17th Century Ottoman Aleppo
NMERTA fellowships were supported by funds administered by the United States Information Agency for the Near and Middle East Research and Training Act.
ARIT CAORC USIA FELLOWS (1999-2000):
Ms. Elspeth Dusinberre, Art History, University of Michigan, Seals and Sealings from Gordion
Dr. Steven Rosen, Steven, Archaeology, Ben Gurion University, The Lithic Workshop at Titriş, Stage 2
ARIT-CAORC USIA fellowships are supported by funds administered by the United States Information Agency through the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
ARIT SAMUEL H. KRESS FOUNDATION FELLOWS (1999-2000):
Ms. Esra Akcan, Architecture, Columbia University, The Memory of the Turkish House
Mr. William Aylward, Archaeology , University of Cincinnati, The Agora at Ilion from Xerxes to Constantine
Ms. Amy Raymond, Art History, University of Toronto, Miletus in the Middle Bronze Age and Minoan Presence in the Eastern Aegean
ARIT Kress fellowships were funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
ISTANBUL FRIENDS OF ARIT FELLOW (1999-2000):
Ms. Sumru Krody, Art History, The Textile Museum, Ottoman Embroidered Textiles Research Project
Mr. Thomas Kühn, Middle East Studies, New York University, Shaping Ottoman Rule in Yemen, 1872-1919
Dr. Oğuz Soysal, Hittitology, University of Chicago, Ortaköy-Šapinuwa Epigraphical Research
Ms. Nazan Üstündağ, Sociology, Indiana University, Modernity as Experienced by Migrant Women in Turkey
ARIT institutional fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul.
ARIT SUMMER FELLOWS IN INTENSIVE TURKISH LANGUAGE (Summer 1999):
USIA-NMERTA Fellows, Bogazici University, Istanbul 1999:
| Febe Armanios | Ohio State University |
| Teresa Burns | Claremont Graduate University |
| Mitra Brewer | Georgetown University |
| John Curry | Ohio State University |
| David Cuthell | Princeton University |
| Michael Ellison | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Garner Gollatz | Georgetown University |
| Leila Harris | University of Minnesota |
| Denice Hill | Cranbrook University |
| Jeff Jurgens | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Noushin Lavasani | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Matthew Kocher | University of Chicago |
| Ruth Miller | Princeton University |
| Amy Mills | University of Texas, Austin |
| Michael Pittman | University of North Carolina |
| Maria Richter | Columbia University |
| Jennifer Utrata | University of California, Berkeley |
Langage fellows for 1998 fellowships were supported by funds administered by the United States Information Agency for the Near and Middle East Research and Training Act.
ARIT – ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION FELLOWS (1999-2000):
Dr. Małgorzata Grębska-Kulova, Historical Museum, Blageovgrad, Bulgaria, Anatolian Origins of Late Neolithic Painted Pottery in the Struma Valley
Dr. János Sipos, Attila József University of Szeged, Hungary, A Comparative Study of Turkic Laments
Dr. Tsoni Tsonev Institute of Archaeology and Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Hunter-Gatherers and Early Farmers in Anatolia and Eastern Balkans
ARIT Mellon fellowships are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
ARIT TURKISH FELLOWS (1999):
Mr. Asım Karaömerlioğlu, Boğaziçi University, Social Life in Turkey during World War II
Mr. Tahir Kodal, Ankara University, The Mosul Affair in the Turkish Press, 1923-1926
Ms. Petek Kovanci Shehrin, Middle East Technical University, The Importance of the Study of the Historic Residential Fabric of the City for Urban Renewal Planning
Ms. Leyla Shen, Bilkent University, Post World War II American Economic and Technical Aid Programs: the Examples of India and Turkey
Mr. Fehmi Yılmaz, Marmara University, Tobacco in the Ottoman Empire: a Social and Economic History
Mr. Fikret Yılmaz, Dokuz Eylül University, Peace Treaty of Rami Mehmet Pasha
1998 – 1999
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (1998-1999):
Dr. Shahzad Bashir, Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross, Manuscript Research for a Monograph on the Hurufi Sect
Dr. Robert Morrison, Middle East Studies, Columbia University, Science in the Religious Thought of Nizamm al-Din Nisaburi (d. 1329 AD)
Dr. Fariba Zarinebaf-Shahr History, University of Illinois, The Social Transformation of Istanbul during the Eighteenth Century
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT-USIA-NMERTA POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS (1998-1999):
Dr. Asma Afsaruddin, Middle East Studies, University of Notre Dame, The Qur’an Commentary of Al-Tha`labt
Dr. Ronald Gorny University of Chicago, Excavations at Çadir Höyük in Central Turkey
Dr. Karen Kern Middle East Studies, Columbia University, State Intervention and the Decline of the Authority of the Family
Dr. Timothy Matney, Anthropology, Whitman College, Urban Planning in the Middle and Neo-Assyrian Periods at Ziyaret Tepe in the Diyarbakır Province
Dr. Blanche Menadier Classics, University of London, A Catalogue of Votives and Small finds from the Graeco-Roman Sanctuary at Troy
Dr. Peter Mentzel History, Utah State University, Railroads and Society in the Ottoman Empire and Early Republican Turkey
Dr. David Reese Field Museum, University of Chicago, Analysis of Archaeozoological Remains from Izmir-Area Sites and from the Kaş Shipwreck
Dr. Lisa Schwartz Consumer Economics, Cornell University, Women in the Labor Force in an Emerging Turkish Industrial Center
NMERTA fellowships were supported by funds administered by the United States Information Agency for the Near and Middle East Research and Training Act.
ARIT-USIA-NMERTA PRE-DOCTORAL FELLOWS (1998-1999):
Mr. Christopher Dole, Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, Self, Identity, and Religious Healing in a Turkish Squatter Community
Mr. Barak Kalfuss, Middle East Studies, Harvard University, Education and Nationalist Identity in Mono-Party Turkey, (1923-1950)
Ms. Margaret Lynch, Geography, University of Texas, Austin, Geographical Visions of Ankara
Mr. Anastasios Papademetriou, Near East Studies, Princeton University, Non-Muslims in Ottoman Society: the Greek Community of Istanbul in the 16th Century
Mr. David Reisman, Religion, Yale University, The Reception of Ibn Sina’s Metaphysics: the Arabic Commentaries, Refutations, and Defenses
Ms. Marguerite Wiese, Center for Middle East Studies, Harvard University, The Life and Reign of Osman II
NMERTA fellowships were supported by funds administered by the United States Information Agency for the Near and Middle East Research and Training Act.
ARIT CAORC USIA FELLOWS (1998-1999):
Ms. Lynn Rainville, Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Early Bronze Age Social Dynamics in Ancient Mesopotamia as Revealed through an Analysis of Micro-Debris
Dr. Steven Rosen, Archaeology, Ben Gurion University, The Lithic Workshop at Titriş Höyük
ARIT-CAORC USIA fellowships are supported by funds administered by the United States Information Agency through the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
ARIT SAMUEL H. KRESS FOUNDATION FELLOWS (1998-1999):
Ms. Julie Edens, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Pottery, Culture Contact, and the Uruk Expansion at Hacı Nebi Tepe, Turkey
Ms. Çiğdem Eissenstat, Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles Domuztepe and its Neighbors
Mr. Bahadır Yıldırım, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, The Ninos Reliefs from the Roman Civil Basilica of the South Agora of Aphrodisia in Caria
ARIT Kress fellowships were funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
ISTANBUL FRIENDS OF ARIT FELLOWS (1998-1999):
Ms. Rajna Klaser, Musicology, University of California, Berkeley, Impact of Female Composers and Singers in the Development of “Sarkı” Genre and Performance Practice
Mr. Baki Tezcan, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, The Deposition of Osman II in 1622: the Political Structure of the Ottoman Empire in the Early 17th Century
Mr. Yücel Yanıkdağ, History, Ohio State University, Ottoman Prisoners of War in the Great War
ARIT institutional fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul.
ARIT SUMMER FELLOWS IN INTENSIVE TURKISH LANGUAGE (Summer 1998):
USIA-NMERTA Fellows, Bogazici University, Istanbul 1998:
| Mary B. Allen | University of Florida, Gainesville |
| Lauren Bigelow | Northwestern University |
| Andrew Blum | University of Southern California |
| Jason Erb | University of Pennsylvania |
| Jean Marie Evans | New York University |
| Louis Fishman | University of Chicago |
| Amelia Gallagher | McGill University |
| Katie Gruber | University of Chicago |
| Leila Harris | University of Minnesota |
| Veronica Kalas | New York University |
| Joseph Logan | University of Chicago |
| Jonathan McMurray | Claremont College |
| Charles Sabatos | University of Washington |
| Walter Slater | University of Wisconsin |
| Tim Waters | Harvard University Law School |
Language fellows for 1998 fellowships were supported by funds administered by the United States Information Agency for the Near and Middle East Research and Training Act.
ARIT – ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION FELLOWS (1998-1999):
Dr. Pál Fodor, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest and Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Piliszcaba, Hungary, Ottoman Attempts at Modernizing State Finances: the Crucial Years (1588-1593)
Dr. Maya Vassileva, Institute of Thracology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Phrygia: the Thracian Perspective
Dr. Gabriel Pirický Institute of Oriental and African Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Modernist Interpretations of Islam in Turkey: the Case of Fethullah Gülen
Dr. Viorel Panaite, History, University of Bucharest, Rumania, Ottoman Law of Peace and War. A Comparative Study of the Relations between the Porte and the Tributary States in Southeastern Europe (15th-17th Centuries)
ARIT Mellon fellowships are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
ARIT TURKISH FELLOWS (1998):
Dr. Metin Ahunbay, Istanbul Technical University, Investigations at Binbirkilise and Ayatekla
Dr. Inci Delemen, Istanbul University, The Naip Tumulus at Tekirdag
Mr. Yılmaz Çolak, Kirikkale University, The Politics of Culture in Turkey: a New Nation and Identity 1923-1960
Mr. Şevket Dönmez, Istanbul University, The Middle Black Sea Region in the Context of Anatolian Cultures: Early Bronze Age Pottery and Small Finds from the Excavations at İkiztepe
Ms. Gürsel Gündoğdu, Ankara University, Voter Behavior in Turkey in the Post-1980 Era
Ms. Nurcan Özgür, Instanbul University, The Yörüks of Macedonia
Ms. Nalan Soyarık, Bilkent University, The Construction of Citizenship in a Modernizing Context: the Raising of Political Consciousness in Early Republican Turkey
Mr. Turgut Hacı Zeyrek, Istanbul University, The Houses of Perge in the context of Domestic Architecture in Roman Period Anatolia
1997 – 1998
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (1997-1998):
Dr. Christopher Edens, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Community, Culture Contact, and the Uruk Expansion: Chipped Stone Analysis at Hacinebi
Dr. Dina Khoury, George Washington University, Urban Political Violence and Reform in the Ottoman Empire, 1770s-1830s
Dr. Dane Kusic, University of Maryland, Religious Musical Trends in Contemporary Turkey: Deconstructing Orientalism
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT-USIA-NMERTA POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS (1997-1998):
Dr. Margot Badran, University of Chicago Center for Middle East Studies, Gender and Constructions and Practices of Citizenship in Turkey
Dr. Robert Garfias, University of California, Irvine, The Golden Age of Ottoman Court Music
Dr. Müge Göçek, University of Michigan, Introduction of Western-Style Education to the Ottoman Empire: a Comparative Analysis of State, Missionary, and Minority Schools, 1860-1900
Dr. Jane Hathaway, Ohio State University, Collective Memory and Selective Nostalgia: the Self-Definition of Factions in Ottoman Egypt
Dr. Mark Lawall,University of Manitoba, Greek Transport Amphoras in Turkey: Local and Long-Distance Trade 550-300 BC
Dr. Robert Ousterhout, University of Illinois School of Architecture, The Byzantine Settlement at Canlı Kilise and Ancient and Byzantine Monuments on Imbros/Gökçeada
Dr. Scott Redford, Georgetown University, Survey and Mapping: Seljuk Settlement of the Alanya Region
Dr. Guy Rogers, Wellesley College, The Mysteries of Artemis at Ephesos
Dr. David Smart, Harvard University Semitic Museum, Black Sea Trade Project, Sinop Province, Excavated Materials Study
NMERTA fellowships are supported by funds administered by the United States Information Agency for the Near and Middle East Research and Training Act.
ARIT-NMERTA PRE-DOCTORAL FELLOWS (1997-1998):
Mr. Phillip Allen, Princeton University, The Ottoman Political and Socio-Economic Context of the 1898 Orthodox Christian Revolution in Damascus
Ms. Lisa Brody, New York University, The Iconography and Cult of Aphrodite of Aphrodisias
Mr. Andrew Goldman, University of North Carolina, Investigating Rural Settlement in the Roman Province of Galatia (Turkey)
Mr. Paul Kaldjian, University of Arizona, Istanbul and Sustainability: the Role of Urban Food Systems
Mr. Giv Nassiri, University of California, Berkeley, A Descriptive Catalogue of Persian Manuscript Works on Sufism Collected at the Libraries in Istanbul
Ms. Michele Penner, Princeton University, Transitions from Single- to Multi-Party Politics in Turkey
Ms. Jennifer Trimble, University of Michigan, The Small and Large Herculaneum Women Statue Types in Turkey
NMERTA fellowships are supported by funds administered by the United States Information Agency for the Near and Middle East Research and Training Act.
ARIT CAORC USIA FELLOWS (1997-1998):
Mr. John Cook, Northwestern University, The Transformed Body: Pavel Tchelitchew’s Representation of the Modernist Body
Ms. Christine Kimbrough, New York University, Textile Production in the third Millennium BCE Northern Mesopotamia: Ethnoarchaeological and Archaeological Approaches
Ms. Aimee Froom, New York University, A Muraqqa’ for the Ottoman Sultan Murad III
ARIT-CAORC USIA fellowships are supported by funds administered by the United States Information Agency through the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
ARIT SAMUEL H. KRESS FOUNDATION FELLOWS (1997-1998):
Ms. Shirine Hamadeh, Harvard University, Pleasure and the Public: Architectural Sensibility in 18th Century Istanbul
Ms. Laura Hebert, New York University, From Pagan Temple to Christian Church: the Cathedral of Aphrodisias
Ms. Oya Pancaroğlu, Harvard University, The Content and Contest of Figural Imagery in the Arts of the Seljuq Period (1100-1300): the Case of Anatolia
ARIT Kress fellowships were funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
ISTANBUL FRIENDS OF ARIT FELLOWS (1997-1998):
Dr. Reinhard Bernbeck, Bryn Mawr College, The Sequence of Halaf Occupation (6th Millennium BC) at Kazane, Sanlıurfa Province
Ms. Elisabeth Kendall, Harvard University, An Overview of the Emergence and Development of Literary Journalism in Turkey
Mr. Hüseyin Yılmaz, Harvard University, Political Theory and Language in the Age of Classicization: a Study of the Role of the Ottoman Elite in Constructing and Reflecting the Authoritarian Political-Linguistic Paradigm
ARIT institutional fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul.
ARIT – ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION FELLOWS (1997-1998):
Dr. Henryk Jankowski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, Fieldwork on Collecting Material for a Crimean Tatar – English Dictionary (see web publication)
Dr. Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, University of Warsaw, Poland, ‘Parallel Lives’ of the Turkish and Polish Societies in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Dr. Jitka Malečková, University of Praha, Czech Republic, Images of Women in Early Turkish National Ideology
Dr. Jiří Svoboda, Institute of Archaeology at Brno, Czech Republic, Patterns of Interaction between Anatolian and the Southeast Central Europe from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Early Neolithic
ARIT Mellon fellowships are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
ARIT TURKISH FELLOWS (1997):
Dr. Mehmet Alkan, Istanbul University, The Development of a Culture of ‘Civil Society’ in Turkey from the Tanzimat to the Republic (1839-1923)
Dr. Hatice Aynur, Bogazici University, The Charitable Foundations of Ottoman Women: I. Fountains in Istanbul
Ms. Aygül Ağır, Istanbul Technical University, Commerce in the Old Venetian Quarter of Istanbul: the Balkapan Han and its Surroundings
Ms. Filiz Başkan, Bilkent University, The Nature of the Relationship between Civil Society and ‘Tarikats’ in the Context of Democratization
Ms. Selma Seda Bulgurlu, Istanbul University, The Hellenistic Gate at Perge
Ms. G. Gonca Gökalp, Hacettepe University, Traditional Motifs in Turkish Literature of the Tanzimat Period
Mr. A. Tarkan Okçuoğlu, Istanbul University, Landscapes and Buildings in the Wall Paintings of the Westernizing Period
Ms. Sevim Yılmaz Önder, Istanbul University, Expression of Number and Quantity in Turkish
ARIT AEGEAN EXCHANGE FELLOWS:
From Turkey: Dr. İlknur Özgen, Bilkent University, Ivories of Anatolia (1996)
From Greece: Dr. Maria Vassilaki, University of Crete and Byzantine Museum, Athens, Icons of Crete (1995)
