2004 – 2005
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (2004-2005)
Dr. Giancarlo Casale, History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, The Ottoman Age of Exploration: Spices, Maps, and Conquest in the Sixteenth Century Indian Ocean
Dr. Scott Redford, Archaeology, Georgetown University, Excavations at Medieval Kinet Höyük
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT DEPARTMENT OF STATE, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS FELLOWS (2004- 2005):
Mr. Benjamin Arbuckle, Anthropology, Harvard University, Strategic Conservatism or Embedded Dynamism? The Evolution of Sheep and Goat Pastoralism in Central Anatolia from the Pottery Neolithic to the Iron Age
Ms. Alexis Boutin, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Mortuary Practices and Bodies of Identity at Early Bronze Age Titriş Höyük, Turkey
Dr. Elizabeth Carter, Near Eastern Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, Elusive Complexity: Excavations at Domuztepe
Ms. Rachel Goshgarian, History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, Beyond Social Action and the Spiritual: Defining the Medieval Anatolian Ahi
Mr. David Meiggs, Anthropology/Archaeology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Strontium Isotopes in Anatolia and Human Migration
Dr. John Walbridge, Near Eastern Languages, Indiana University, Bloomington, Galenic Medical Theory as a Source of Classical Islamic Philosophy
Dr. Jenny White, Anthropology, Boston University, The End of Islamism? Turkey’s New Muslimhood Model
The United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs provides the funding to support fellowships at overseas research centers. The Council of American Overseas Research Centers administers the program.
ARIT SAMUEL H. KRESS FOUNDATION FELLOWS (2004-2005):
Ms. Suna Cağaptay-Arıkan, Architecture and Medieval Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Visualizing the Cultural Transition in Bithynia: Byzantine-Ottoman ‘Overlap’ Architecture
Mr. Andrea DeGiorgi, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College, Socio-Economic Studies in the Territory of Antioch in the High Roman Empire
ARIT Kress fellowships were funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
ARIT INSTITUTIONAL FELLOWS (2004-2005)
JOHN FREELY FELLOWS:
Mr. Cengiz Şişman, History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, The Dömmes: a History of the Messianic Judeo-Islamic Community in the 18th and 19th-Century Ottoman Empire
JOUKOWSKY FAMILY FOUNDATION FELLOWS:
Dr. Patrick McGovern, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Southeastern Turkey: Homeland of Winemaking and Viticulture?
Mr. Avi Rubin, Middle Eastern Studies and History, Harvard University, Ottoman Modernity: the Nizamiye Courts in the Late Nineteenth Century
Ms. Aslıhan Sanal, Studies of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Becoming: Death and Life in High-Tech Turkey
Ms. Zeynep Yurekli-Görkay, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, A Tale of Two Convents in the Ottoman Empire: the Mythology, Architecture, and Patronage of Seyyid Gazi and Haci Bektaş in a Network (1453-1600)
Mr. Edward Webb, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, Secularizations and their Discontents: a Cross-National Study
The Joukowsky Family Foundation supports the John Freely and Joukowsky Family Foundation Fellowships.
ISTANBUL FRIENDS OF ARIT FELLOWS (2004-2005):
Mr. İlker Evrim Binbaş, Islamic Literature, University of Chicago, Mythology and History in Later Islam Periods: the Oghuz Khan Narratives in Historical and Epic Traditions
Mr. Himmet Taşkömür, History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, Jurists, Law, and Politics: Legal Thought and Religious Culture in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire (1520-1574)
ARIT institutional fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul.
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF APHRODISIAS, KENAN T. ERIM FELLOWSHIP (2004-2005):
Ms. Anne Hrychuk, Archaeology, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Gladitorial Stelai from Aphrodisias
The Kenan T. Erim Fellowship was supported by the American Friends of Aphrodisias in his honor.
ARIT SUMMER FELLOWS IN INTENSIVE TURKISH LANGUAGE (Summer 2004):
U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Advanced Language Fellows, Bogazici University, Istanbul 2004:
| Elizabeth Angell | Oxford University |
| Caroline Baker | Princeton University |
| Morgan Baker | Georgetown University |
| Dilek Barlow | Harvard University |
| Sarah Carpenter | Duke University |
| Marlene Elwell | Bilkent University, Ankara |
| Karen Emmerich | Columbia University |
| Mary Essex | Gallaudet College |
| Nora Fisher | Johns Hopkins University |
| James Gibbon | Princeton University |
| Denise Gill | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Scott Hanson | University of Chicago |
| Adam McConnell | University of Washington |
| Desmond O’Reilly | Harvard University |
| Anthony Shin | New York University |
| Reed Summers | Hampshire College |
| Netania Zagorski | Georgetown University |
The U.S. Department of Education, Princeton University, the American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages and ARIT provide support for participants in the Bogazici University Summer Program in Intensive Advanced Turkish Language.
ARIT – ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION FELLOWS (2004-2005):
Dr. Constantin Iordachi, History, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, Un-Mixing the Ottoman Jigsaw: the Making of Nation-State Citizenship in the Balkans, 1804-1923
Dr. Svetlana Ivanova, History, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria, Ethno-Religious Groups in Trade in Rumeli, 16th-18th Centuries: Toward the Problem of the Formation of the Imperial Subject
Dr. Arkadiusz Marciniak, Archaeology, Institute of Prehistory, University of Poznan, Poznan, Poland, Social and Economic Transformations at the End of the Neolithic in Central Anatolia and the Lakes District
Dr. János Sipos, Musicology, Institute for Musicology, Budapest, Hungary, Karachays – Turkic Refugees in Turkey
ARIT Mellon fellowships were funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
ARIT TURKISH FELLOWS (2004):
Ms. Olcay Akyıldız, Comparative Literature, Boğaziçi University, Occidentalism in Turkish Literature
Ms. Tuba Demirci, History, Bilkent University, The Ottoman Family as a Contested Terrain, Debates on the Ottoman Family and Family Reform during the Tanzimat Period (1839-1908)
Dr. Gonca Gökalp-Alpaslan, Comparative Literature, Hacettepe University, The Gilgamesh Legend and its Interpretation in Modern Turkish Literature.
Mr. Emre Güldoğan, Archaeology, Istanbul University, A Study of the “Impresso” Style Pottery at Mezraa-Teleilat and the Rise of the Neolithic in the Mediterranean Region
Dr. Erol Köroğlu, Turkish Literature, Sabancı University, Burhan Cahit Morkaya (1892-1949): the Republican Regime and Popular Literature
Mr. Aşkım Özdizbay, Archaeology, Istanbul University, Urban Development in Perge in the First and Second Centuries C.E
Ms. Pınar Şenışık, History, Boğaziçi University, The Cretan Question in the Ottoman Empire (1895-1898)
ARIT Turkish fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul and the American Research Institute in Turkey.
GEORGE AND ILSE HANFMANN FELLOWS (2004):
Mr. Güneş Duru, Fine Arts, Istanbul University, An Architectural Perspective on the Issue of the Origins of Settled Society in the Mid-Anatolian Region: a Comparison with Developments in the Levant, Middle Euphrates and Eastern Tauris Cultural Regions
Mr. Namık Erkal, Architecture, Middle East Technical University, ‘Excavating’ the Visual Sources Depicting Istanbul’s Maritime Frontier: the Case of the Golden Horn Extra-Mural Zone
Dr. Ahmet Yaraş, Archaeology, University of Thrace, The Allianoi Salvage Project: Research in Preparation for Publication
Funding for the Hanfmann Fellowships is provided by an anonymous donor in honor of George M. A. and Ilse B. Hanfmann.
TONI M. CROSS – WILLIAM D. E. COULSON AEGEAN EXCHANGE FELLOWS (2004)
From Turkey:
Mr. Yusuf Ayönü, History, Ege University, Seljuk-Byzantine Relations: 1116-1308
Mr. Bestami S. Bilgiç, History, George Washington University, Turkish-Greek Relations in the Inter-War Period (c. 1922 – c. 1941): from the War to Détente and Regional Co-operation
Dr. Ayşın Candan, English, Yeditepe University, Greek Tragedy: Contemporary Approaches for Staging
Mr. Mustafa Erdem Kabadayı, Oriental Studies, University of Munich, Ottoman Industrial Policy Examined through the Emergence and Administration of Factory Production in the Second Half of the 19th Century
From Greece:
Ms. Sophia Germanidou, History, University of Athens, Lighting Objects of Christian and Islamic Art: a study of their Morphology through Actual Finds and their Representation in Byzantine Monuments
Ms. Stella Kalle, Art History, University of Thessaloniki, The Wall Paintings of the Cave Towns and Rock Cut Churches and Monasteries of Cappadocia
Mr. Elias Koulakiotis, Classics, University of Thessaloniki, Aspects of Hellenistic Feasts in Asia Minor: the Organization of the Isiteria in Magnesia on the Maeander
Ms. Irene Nikolakopoulou, Institute for Aegean Prehistory, Crete, Correlations and Interaction between Aegean Communities in the Middle Bronze Age
Mr. Dimitris Papastamatiou, History, University of Thessaloniki, Ottoman Rule in the Peloponnese 1715-1770
Mr. Athanasios Vionis: Athens/Leiden University, Material Culture and Everyday Life in Aegean Turkey during the Ottoman and Early Modern Periods
ARIT Aegean Exchange fellowships are funded by the Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and cosponsored by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
2003 – 2004
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (2003-2004):
Dr. Christine Philliou, History, Princeton University, Duties of Servitude: the Logic and Practices of Ottoman Governance, 1800-1860
Dr. Cengiz Şişman, Harvard University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The Dönmes: a History of the Messianic Judeo-Islamic Community in the 18th and 19th-Century Ottoman Empire
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT DEPARTMENT OF STATE, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS FELLOWS (2003-2004):
Ms. Heather Ferguson, History, University of California, Berkeley, Taxing Consent: the Price of Legal and Fiscal Reform in Seventeeth-Century Ottoman Syria and Anatolia
Dr. Robert Henrickson, Archaeology, Smithsonian Institution, The Yassıhöyük Stratigraphic Sequence Ceramic Chronology
Dr. Victoria Holbrook, Turkish Literature, Ohio State University, Poetry and Politics in the 20th Century Mediterranean
Dr. Veronica Kalas, Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, Survey of the Byzantine Settlement at Selime – Yaprakhisar in the Peristrema Valley, Western Cappadocia
Mr. James Meyer, History, Brown University, A Search for Embeddedness: “Pan-Turkism” and the Türk Yurdu Circle 1905-1914
The United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs provides the funding to support fellowships at overseas research centers. The Council of American Overseas Research Centers administers the program.
ARIT SAMUEL H. KRESS FOUNDATION FELLOWS (2003-2004):
Ms. Esra Akın, History of Art, Ohio State University, Mustafa Ali’s Epic Deeds of Artists: an Edition and Critical Study (in combination with Joukowsky Family Foundation funding)
Ms. Günder Varinlioğlu, Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, University of Pennsylvania, The Rural Landscape and Built Environment at the End of Antiquity: The Limestone Villages of Southeastern Isauria
ARIT Kress fellowships were funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
ARIT INSTITUTIONAL FELLOWS (2003-2004)
JOHN FREELY FELLOW:
Ms. Betül Başaran Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago Remaking the Gate of Felicity: Migration, Social Control, and Policing in 18th Century Istanbul, 1730-1789
JOUKOWSKY FAMILY FOUNDATION FELLOWS:
Ms. Esra Akın (see under Kress Foundation funding)
Mr. Koray Çalışkan, Political Science, New York University, Locating the Market in the Age of Neo-Liberal Reforms: Cotton Trade and Production in Turkey and Egypt, (in combination with Friends of ARIT, Istanbul funding)
Mr. H. Erdem Çıpa, History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, The Rise of Selim I to Power Within the Context of the Ottoman-Safavid Conflict, 1487-1514
Ms. Zehra Aslı Iğsız, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, Fragments of Home-land, Narratives of Return: Refugee Memories of 1923 Greek-Turkish Compulsory Population Exchange
Mr. Yektan Türkyılmaz, Anthropology, Duke University, Imagining ‘Turkey,’ Creating a Nation: the Politics of Geography and State Formation in Eastern Anatolia, 1908-1938
The Joukowsky Family Foundation supports the John Freely and Joukowsky Family Foundation Fellowships.
ISTANBUL FRIENDS OF ARIT FELLOW (2003-2004):
Mr. Koray Çalışkan, (see under Joukowsky Family Foundation funding)
Mr. Ali Yaycıoğlu, Middle Eastern Studies and History, Harvard University, The Danubian Challenge: Regionalism, Crisis, and the Deed of Agreement (1808) in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1792-1812
ARIT institutional fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul.
ARIT SUMMER FELLOWS IN INTENSIVE TURKISH LANGUAGE (Summer 2003)
U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Advanced Language Fellows, Bogazici University, Istanbul 2003:
| Keya Anjaria | University of Pennsylvania |
| Laurie Chandler | Princeton University |
| Donna Colaco | Institute for Social Studies, The Hague |
| Charlotte Duggan | University of Arizona |
| Tarkan Durum | New York University |
| Kathryn D. Everett | University of California, Berkeley |
| David Gramling | University of California, Berkeley |
| Matthew Gumpert | Bilkent University, Ankara |
| Judd King | Duke University |
| Evan Landa | New York University |
| Vanessa Larson | Georgetown University |
| Maja Petrovic | Princeton University |
| Kristin Rodemann | University of Texas |
| Grant Salisbury | Princeton University |
| Malissa Taylor | New York University |
The U.S. Department of Education, Princeton University, the American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages and ARIT provide support for participants in the Bogazici University Summer Program in Intensive Advanced Turkish Language.
ARIT – ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION FELLOWS (2003-2004):
Dr. Sandor Papp, History, Károli Gáspár University, Budapest, Hungary, The Hungarian Policy of the Ottoman Empire at the Turn of the 17th and 18th Centuries
Dr. Benedek Péri, Turkic Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, ‘Sâkhta dar turkcha nîiz ahl-i hunar sarfa-i sarf u lughat-i zîr u zabar:’ Native Osmanli Grammars and the Arabic System of Language Description
Dr. Furat Rahman, Cultural and Social Anthropology, West Bohemian University, Pilsen, Czech Republic, Collations of Selected Old Babylonian Letters Conserved in the Istanbul Museum
Dr. Peter Barta, Bronze Age Archaeology, Archaeological Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Nitra, Slovak Republic, Chipped Discs: an Overlooked Stone Tool Category of Anatolian Neolithic
ARIT Mellon fellowships were funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
ARIT TURKISH FELLOWS (2003):
Mr. Ebubekir Ceylan, Boğaziçi University, The Ottoman Administration of Baghdad (1831-1872)
Mr. Cemal Demircioğlu, Boğaziçi University, Ottoman Turkish Discourses on Literary Translation in the Post-Tanzimat Period
Ms. Elif Yeneroğlu Kutbay, Dokuz Eylül University, The End of Ottoman Sovreignty in the Eastern Aegean Islands and its Effects on the Province of Aydın (1908-1914)
Dr. Nadir Özbek, Boğaziçi University, Policing the Countryside: the Gendarmerie in the 19th Century Ottoman Empire
Dr. Arzu Öztürkmen, Boğaziçi University, From Tripolis to Tirebolu: Memory and History in a Turkish Black Sea Town
Ms. Neslihan Tok, Bilkent University, The Production of Public Space in Squatter Neighborhoods
Ms. Şule Toktaş, Bilkent University, Citizenship Questioned by Internal Migration and Minority Issues: a Comparative Study of Turkish Jews in Israel and in Turkey
Ms. Gülgün Yılmaz, Istanbul University, The Entry of New Art Objects into 19th Century Ottoman Social Life
ARIT Turkish fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul and the American Research Institute in Turkey.
GEORGE AND ILSE HANFMANN FELLOWS (2003):
Dr. Murat Arslan, Ancient Languages and Cultures, Akdeniz University, Research on the Historical Connections and Geography of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods of the Black Sea Region Researches I: Amasya
Dr. Yiğit Hayatı Erbil, Archaeology, Hacettepe University, Water Cults in Hittite Anatolia
Dr. Lale Özgenel, Architecture, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Looking at Roman ‘Space Culture’ in the Private Context: ‘Privacy’ in the Roman House
Dr. Ibrahim Çeşmeli, Art History, Istanbul University, Medieval Mosques of Central Asia
Funding for the Hanfmann Fellowships is provided by an anonymous donor in honor of George M. A. and Ilse B. Hanfmann.
TONI M. CROSS – WILLIAM D. E. COULSON AEGEAN EXCHANGE FELLOWS (2003)
From Turkey:
Dr. Ayşe Nükhet Adiyeke, History, Mersin University, Crete during the Process of Greek Independence 1821-1829
Dr. Ayşe Aydın, Archaeology, Mersin University, The Single-Staircase Ambos of the Early Christian Churches of Thessaloniki
Dr. Remzi Yağcı, Archaeology, Mersin University, Iron Age Pottery and Archaic Architectural Terracottas of Soli: Early Greek Contacts with Cilicia ca. 1000-600 B.C.
Dr. Ahmet Yürür, Ethnomusicology, Yildiz Technical University, A Survey of the Music of the Bektashi Sanctuaries in Greece
ARIT Aegean Exchange fellowships are funded by the Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and cosponsored by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
2002 – 2003
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (2002-2003):
Dr. Michelle Bonogofsky, Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Sex, Age, and Authority at Kösk Höyük
Dr. Vernon Schubel, Religious Studies, Kenyon College, The Vilayetname of Haci Bektas: a Sufi Biography in Religious and Historical Context
Dr. A. Holly Shissler, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, The Woman Question in Ottoman Thought, 1870-1919: Individualism, Family Structure, and the Idea of Progress
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT DEPARTMENT OF STATE, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS FELLOWS (2002-2003):
Mr. Isa Blumi, Middle East Studies, New York University, The Consequences of Empire: the Ottoman State and the Emergence of National Identity in Yemen and Albania 1878-1918
Dr. Elizabeth Carter, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles, Emergent Complexity and Transregionalism in the Halaf Period: Excavations at Domuztepe
Mr. Giancarlo Casale, Middle East Studies and History, Harvard University, Ottoman-Portuguese Relations and the 16th-Century Origins of Globalization
Dr. Andrew Goldman, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Reconstructing the Economy and History of an Early Roman Town: a Study of the Early Imperial Pottery at Gordion (Turkey)
Ms. Christiane Gruber, Art History, University of Pennsylvania, Heavenly Journeys and the Imaginary: Illustrations of Muhammad’ Mi’raj in Medieval Islamic Manuscripts (14th-17th Centuries)
Dr. Ussama Makdisi, History, Rice University, The Tragedy of As’ad Shidyaq: Conflicting Ottoman and American Narratives of Tolerance
Dr. Brian Peasnall, University of Pennsylvania Museum and Community College of Philadelphia, Batman to Diyarbakir Archaeological Survey
Ms. Lynn Rainville, Anthropology, University of Virginia, Domestic Economies at Ziyaret Tepe, a Middle and Late Assyrian Center
The United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs provides the funding to support fellowships at overseas research centers. The Council of American Overseas Research Centers administers the program.
ARIT SAMUEL H. KRESS FOUNDATION FELLOWS (2002- 2003):
Mr. Stephen Batiuk, Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto, Red Black Burnished Ware of the Amuq Valley and the Early Trans-Caucasian Problem
Mr. Jesse Casana, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, Settlement, Land Use, and Environmental Change in the Amuq Valley
Mr. Peter DeStaebler, Archaeology, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, The City Wall of Aphrodisias
Ms. Elizabeth Baughan, Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley, Funerary Klinai and Cultural Identity in Archaic Anatolia
ARIT Kress fellowships were funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
ARIT INSTITUTIONAL FELLOWS (2002- 2003)
JOUKOWSKY FAMILY FOUNDATION:
Ms. Tijana Krstic, History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Narrating Conversion to Islam: the Dialogue of Texts and Practices in the Early Modern Ottoman Balkans
Ms. İlay Örs, Middle East Studies, Harvard University, On Cosmopolitan Lives Past and Present: the Rum of Istanbul Revisited
Mr. Cengiz Şişman, Middle East Studies, Harvard, When Messiah Converts: the Sabbatian Movement and the Emergence of Sabbatian Community in the Ottoman Empire in the 17th Century
JOHN FREELY FELLOW:
Ms. Ebru Turan, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Chicago, Ibrahim Paşa (1520-1536): a Transformation in Ottoman Kingship
The Joukowsky Family Foundation supports the John Freely and Joukowsky Family Fellowships.
ISTANBUL FRIENDS OF ARIT FELLOW (2002-2003):
Ms. Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, What Happens when Rebellions End? The Kizilbas Communities of the Late 16th and 17th Centuries
ARIT institutional fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul.
ARIT SUMMER FELLOWS IN INTENSIVE TURKISH LANGUAGE (Summer 2002)
U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Advanced Language Fellows, Bogazici University, Istanbul 2002:
| John K. Bragg | University of Wisconsin |
| Ryan Scott Gingeras | University of Toronto |
| Heather Jensen | University of Michigan |
| Jorge Hankamer | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Victoria Koroteyeva | Columbia University |
| Scott Morrison | Columbia University |
| Natalie Operstein | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Matthew Rascoff | Columbia University |
| Jessica Rider | Georgia Technical University |
| Emera Trujillo | University of Massachusetts |
| Zehra Yazgan | New York University |
| Dayna M. Yonkoski | Indiana University |
The U.S. Department of Education, Princeton University, the American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages and ARIT provide support for participants in the Bogazici University Summer Program in Intensive Advanced Turkish Language.
ARIT – ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION FELLOWS (2002-2003):
Dr. Istvan Ormos, Semitic Philology, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, Technical Terms in Arabic Medical Manuscripts of Galen in the Süleymaniye Library in Istanbul
Dr. Orlin Sabev, History, Institute for Balkan Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria, Ownership of Books in the Ottoman Empire, 18th-19th Centuries
Dr. Grazyna Zajac, Turkish Literature, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, Sultan Abdulhamid’s Period in the Light of the Memoirs of Turkish Authors
ARIT Mellon fellowships were funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
ARIT TURKISH FELLOWS (2002):
Mr. Murat Akman, Archaeology, Istanbul University, Final Results of the Domuztepe Dam Salvage Project
Ms. Müren Beykan, Archaeology, Istanbul University, The Quarrying, Shaping and Export of Ionian Capitals from Marmara Island Quarries
Ms. V. Gül Cephaneciğil, Architecture, Istanbul Technical University, Late Ottoman/Early Republican Architectural History and Celâl Esad Arseven
Ms. Tülin Değirmenci, History, Hacettepe University, History and Legend in Early Seventeenth Century Ottoman Manuscript Illumination
Mr. Şevket Dönmez, Istanbul University, A Geo-physical Survey of Samsun-Akalın
Ms. T. Gül Köksal, Architecture, Istanbul Technical University, Proposals for the Inventory, Restoration and Re-use of Istanbul’s 19th Century Industrial Heritage
Ms. Aslı Erim Özdoğan, Istanbul University, An Early Iron Age Settlement on the Northern Shores of the Marmara—Menekşe Çata
Ms. Sema Yıldırım-Balcı, Istanbul University, A Techno-Cultural Study of Central Anatolian Obsidian Technology
ARIT Turkish fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul and the American Research Institute in Turkey.
GEORGE AND ILSE HANFMANN FELLOWS (2002):
Ms. Gülsün Ciler Altınbilek, Prehistorya, Istanbul University, The Use of Obsidian in the Period of Transition from Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Pottery Neolithic (late PPNB/ PPNC) in East and Southeast Anatolia
Ms. Başak Boz, Hacettepe University, Reconstruction of the Dietary Habits of the Çatal Höyük Neolithic People
Dr. Hatice Pamir, Mustafa Kemal University, An Evaluation of Material Removed from Orontes Valley Settlements in Early Excavations and now Housed in Collections Abroad.
Funding for the Hanfmann is provided by an anonymous donor in honor of George M. A. and Ilse B. Hanfmann.
TONI M. CROSS – WILLIAM D. E. COULSON AEGEAN EXCHANGE FELLOWS (2002)
From Turkey:
Ms. S. Sedef Çokay, Classical Archaeology, Istanbul University, The Karaçallı Nekropolis Project
Dr. Emel Erten, Archaeology, Mersin University, Glass in Asia Minor, 2nd Millennium through the Byzantine Era
Dr. Lale Özgenel, History of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, Dwelling and the Private Sphere in the Late Antique Anatolia and Greece
Dr. Billur Tekkök, Performing Arts, Bilkent University, Hellenistic and Roman Pottery from the Sanctuary at Troy
ARIT Aegean Exchange fellowships are funded by the Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and cosponsored by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
2001 – 2002
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (2001-2002)
Dr. Mohammed Shahab Ahmed, Society of Fellows, Harvard University, The Problem of the Satanic Verses and the Formation of Islamic Orthodoxy
Dr. James Grehan, History, University of Texas, Austin, Economic Mentality in the Ottoman Middle East: the Material Culture of Eighteenth-Century Damascus
Dr. Baki Tezcan, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, The Thirty Years War of the Middle East, 1618 – 1648
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT DEPARTMENT OF STATE, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS FELLOWS (2001-2002):
Mr. George Gavrilis, Political Science, Columbia University, Border Guards, Bandits, and Diplomats: Managing the Ottoman-Greek Border Land Boundary in the Nineteenth Century
Ms. Leila Harris, Geography, University of Minnesota, Modernizing Gender: Social Geographies of Waterscape Evolution in Southeastern Turkey
Dr. Amy Singer, Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University, Imarets Past to Present
Dr. Jenny B. White, Anthropology, Boston University, The Effect of Globalization on Socio-Political Identities in Turkey
The United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs provides the funding to support fellowships at overseas research centers. The Council of American Overseas Research Centers administers the program.
ARIT SAMUEL H. KRESS FOUNDATION FELLOWS (2001- 2002):
Mr. Bekir Gürdil, Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, Degirmentepe: an Analysis of Settlement Layout and Activity Areas in an ‘Ubaid Settlement on the Anatolian Plateau
Ms. Rana Deniz Özbal, Anthropology, Northwestern University, Social Complexity and Monumentality at Tell Kurdu
ARIT Kress fellowships were funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
ARIT INSTITUTIONAL FELLOWS (2001-2002)
JOHN FREELY FELLOW:
Ms. Rebekah Green, Engineering and Anthropology, Cornell University, After the Kocaeli Earthquake: Turkish Engineers and Disaster Mitigation
JOUKOWSKY FAMILY FOUNDATION FELLOWS:
Mr. Koray Çalışkan, Politics, New York University, Locating the Market in the Age of Neo-Liberal Reforms: Cotton Trade and Production in Turkey and Egypt
Ms. Aslıhan Sanal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, The Impact of High-Tech Bio-Medicine in the Middle East: Organ Transplantations in Turkey
The Joukowsky Family Foundation supports the John Freely and Joukowsky Family Foundation Fellowships.
ISTANBUL FRIENDS OF ARIT FELLOW (2001-2002):
Mr. Sabri Ateş, Middle East Studies, New York University, Empires at the Margin: Toward a Social History of the Ottoman-Iranian Border and the Borderland People
Ms. Eunjeong Yi, Center for Middle East Studies, Harvard University, Immigrants and Urban Communities (Tawa’if) in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul
Ms. Selma Zecevic, Middle East Languages and Cultures, Columbia, Bosnian Muftis and their fetvas: the Art of Legal Interpretation in an Ottoman Province
ARIT institutional fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul.
ARIT – ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION FELLOWS (2001-2002):
Dr. Vassil Nikolov, Archaeological Institute and Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, Ethno-Cultural Contacts between Anatolia and the Balkans
Dr. Adrian Tertecel, ‘N. Iorga’ Institute of History, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania, The Russo-Ottoman Confrontation for the Rule over the Black Sea Area (1714-1739)
ARIT Mellon fellowships are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
ARIT TURKISH FELLOWS (2001):
Mr. Baki Asıltürk, Language and Literature, Marmara University, The Image of America in Turkish Literature of the Westernizing Period
Mr. Erhan Aydın, Linguistics, Erciyes University, Chronological Terms in Turkic Languages
Mr. Selman Can, Architecture, Atatürk University, The Ottoman Architectural Profession in the First Half of the 19th Century: the Work and Thought of Mimar Seyyid Abdülhalim Efendi
Mr. Murat Çemrek, Economics, Bilkent University, State–Interest Group Relations in Turkey: the Case of the Independent Industrialists and Businessmens’s Association (MÜSIAD)
Ms. S. Sedef Çokay, Archaeology, Istanbul University, Karaçali Necropolis
Mr. Ertan Das, Architecture, Ege University, Early Period Ottoman Türbes
Ms. Bilge Hürmüzlü, Archaeology, Ege University, The Necropolis of Clazomenai-Akpinar
Ms. Duygu Köksal, History, Bosphorus University, Literature, Art and Modernization in the Early Turkish Republic
Mr. B. Ali Soner, Politics, Bilkent University, Minority Rights Policies in Europe and in Turkey: Conflict or Conciliation
Ms. Sevim Yılmaz-Önder, Literature, Bosphorus University, Tevarih-i Al-i Selçuk
ARIT Turkish fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul and the American Research Institute in Turkey
TONI M. CROSS – WILLIAM D. E. COULSON AEGEAN EXCHANGE FELLOWS (2001):
From Turkey:
Mr. Yiğit Erbil, Hacettepe University, Mycenaean Civilization and its Neighboring Areas
Dr. Suna Güven, Middle East Technical University, Identity, Civic Image and Patronage: Designers of Memory in the Roman East and Roman Athens in the Hadrianic Period
Dr. Yıldız Ötüken, Hacettepe University, Studies in Byzantine Art
Mr. Sinan Sülüner, Middle East Technical University, A Comparative Study of Greek and Roman Fortifications
From Greece:
Dr. Ourania Kouka, Archaeological Society at Athens, ‘Corpus Artis Cycladicae:’ Study and Publication of Artifacts of the Early Cycladic Period
Dr. Gina Salapata, Massey University, New Zealand Hellenistic and Roman monuments of the Southwestern and Southern Turkey
ARIT Aegean Exchange fellowships are funded by the Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and cosponsored by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
2000 – 2001
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (2000-2001)
Dr. Shirine Hamadeh, History of Art, Ottoman Patronage and Architectural Taste in Eighteenth Century Istanbul
Dr. Dorothy Slane-Öztürk, University College, University of Maryland, The Pottery from Gözlüküle, Tarsus, in the Adana Museum: a Study Season
Dr. John Walbridge, Near Eastern Languages, Indiana University, Stoic Fragments in Islamic Medical and Philosophical Texts
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT DEPARTMENT OF STATE, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS FELLOWS (2000-2001):
Dr. Maureen Basedow, Archaeology, University of North Carolina, Wilmington The Sanctuary at Troy: Architecture and Stratigraphy
Mr. Frederick Colby, Religion, Duke University, Isra’ / Mi’raj Literature: Works on the Ascension of the Prophet Muhammad
Mr. John Curry, History, Ohio State University, The Impact of Seventeenth Century Religious Transformation on the Halveti Order of Dervishes in the Ottoman Empire
Mr. Michael Ellison, Music Composition, University of California, Santa Barbara, A Comparative, Regionally Oriented Study of Intonation and Modality in the Folk Music of Turkey
Ms. Britt Hartenberger, Archaeology, Boston University, Analysis of Craft Specialization at the Canaanean Blade Workshop at Titriş Höyük in the Context of Regional Chipped Stone Production
Dr. Richard Labaree, Ethnomusicology, New England Conservatory, The Transmission of Song Forms in Ottoman Classical Music: Mesk, Recording, and Consultation with Singers and Scholars
Dr. Timothy Matney, Anthropology, University of Akron, Urban Planning and Culture at Late Bronze – Iron Age Ziyaret Tepe, Diyarbakir Province
Mr. Hakan Ozoğlu, History, University of Chicago, Kurds of Turkey: a Study on the Background of Early Kurdish Nationalists
Dr. Bradley Parker, History, University of Utah, The Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project (UTARP)
Ms. Christine Philliou, History, Princeton University, The Interstices of Empires: the Autonomous Polity of Ottoman Samos 1834-1912
Mr. John Senseney, History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara, Roman Asia Minor’s Colonnaded Public Enclosures and their Urban Role
Mr. Aaron Shakow, History, Harvard University Middle East Center, The Plague and their Houses: Public Health, Clinical Practice, and the Social Experience of Illness and Disease, Istanbul 1771-1831
Ms. G. Carole Woodall, History of Art and Architecture, New York University, Composing Istanbul: Changing Identities, Urban space, and Entertainment, 1918-1928
The United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs provides the funding to support fellowships at overseas research centers. The Council of American Overseas Research Centers administers the program.
ARIT SAMUEL H. KRESS FOUNDATION FELLOWS (2000- 2001):
Ms. Persis Berlekamp History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Wonder and its Images in Medieval Islamic Culture: the Wonders of Creation from the Euphrates to the Oxus, 1258-1502
Mr. Christopher Roosevelt History of Art and Archaeology, Cornell University Sites and Settlements of Central Lydia
Ms. Zeynep Yürekli History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University The Architecture of the Ottoman Halvetis in Anatolia and the Balkans
ARIT Kress fellowships were funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
ISTANBUL FRIENDS OF ARIT FELLOW (2000-2001):
Ms. Michelle Berenfeld, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Houses at Aphrodisias: the Bishop’s Place and Related Structures
Mr. Boğac Ergene, History, Ohio State University, Local Court, Community, and Justice in the Ottoman Empire of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Ms. İlay Örs, Anthropology, Harvard University, On Cosmopolitan Lives Past and Present: the Greeks of Istanbul
Dr. Oğuz Soysal, University of Chicago, Oriental Institute, The Ortaköy-Šapinuwa Epigraphical Research (OSER) Project
ARIT institutional fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul.
ARIT – ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION FELLOWS (2000-2001):
Dr. Géza David Turkish Studies, ELTE University, Hungary The Population of Ottoman Hunagary in the Sixteenth Century
Dr. Ivan Gatsov Archaeological Institute and Museum, Sofia, Bulgaria Prehistoric Chipped Stone Assemblages and the Problem of Connections between Anatolia and Thrace
Dr. Rossitsa Stefanova Gradeva Institute of Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences War and Peace along the Danube, End of the Seventeenth – Beginning of the Eighteenth Centuries
Dr. Anca Popescu N. Iorga History Institute, Ovidius University, Romania The Ottoman Imperial Danube: Byzantine Legacy and Local Heritage
ARIT Mellon fellowships are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
ARIT TURKISH FELLOWS (2000):
Ms. Gül Asatekin, Architecture, and Ceylan Tokluoglu, Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Survey of Perceived Needs and Preferences of Current Residents of Residential Dwellings Registered as Worthy of Preservation in the Ankara Castle District
Ms. Nilgün Çolpan Erkan Bicer, Architecture, Yildiz Technical University, The Development and Change of the Image of the Anatolian Turkish Town
Mr. Mithat Çelikpala, International Relations, Hacettepe University, A Study of the Development of a North Caucasus Identity
Mr. Gürol İrzik and Ms. Berna Kilinç, Philosophy, Bogaziçi University, From the Wounds of Anatolia to the North Anatolian Fault: Ihsan Ketin and Scientific Discovery in the Republic of Turkey
Mr. Süleyman Kızıltoprak, History, Mimar Sinan University, The English Occupation of Egypt and the Ottoman Reaction
Mr. Vasıf Şahoğlu, Archaeology, Ankara University, Early Bronze Ceramics at Liman Tepe and their Place in Aegean Archaeology
Mr. Yüksel Taşkın, Political Science, Bogaziçi University, Intellectuals , the State and the Media in Post-1980 Turkey
Ms. Şuhnaz Yılmaz, International Relations, Koç University, The American Role in Greek-Turkish Relations
