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 ÇıpaHistory 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 TürkyılmazAnthropology, 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