2009-2010
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (2009 – 2010):
Dr. Tolga Esmer, History, Pennsylvania State University, Bandits, Saints and Ethno-Martyrs: a Muslim Frontier Family at the Dawn of the ‘Age of Nationalism’ in the Ottoman Balkans
Dr. Maureen Jackson, Comparative Literature, University of Washington, A View from the Province: Multi-Ethnic Music-Making in Late Ottoman Izmir
Dr. Tijana Krstic, History, Pennsylvania State University, A Mediterranean Network: Spanish Moriscos in the Ottoman Empire and Beyond, 1570s-1620s
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT – DEPARTMENT OF STATE, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS FELLOWS (2009 – 2010):
Dr. Sarah Bassett, History of Art, Wayne State University, Late Antique Honorific Sculpture in Constantinople
Dr. Andrew Goldman, Archaeology, Gonzaga University, Concluding Field Season of the Roman Gordion Project
Ms. Susan Gunasti, Political Science, Princeton University, The Ulema’s Last Stand: Religion, Politics, and the Interpretation of the Qur’an in Early Twentieth Century Turkey
Ms. Emily Hammer, Archaeology, Harvard University, Nomadic Pastoralism Along the Upper Tigris River, Southeast Turkey
Dr. Kimberly Hart, Anthropology, Buffalo State College, The Orthodoxization of Islamic Practice in Western Turkey
Ms. Allison Keane, History, Binghamton University, Women, Legal Reform, and Social Change in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1922
Ms. Sara Madole, Archaeology, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Sarcophagus Imagery and the Construction of Identity in Local Contexts of Asia Minor
Dr. Charles Wilkins, History, Wake Forest University, Early Modern Empires and the Ottoman Incorporation of Syria, 1516-1760
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 FELLOW (2009 – 2010):
Ms. Bike Yazıcıoğlu, Archaeology, University of Chicago, People of Kaneš in the 21st-17th Century BC: Communal and Individual Dimensions of Identity in a Cosmopolitan Center in Anatolia
ARIT Kress fellowships are funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
ARIT INSTITUTIONAL FELLOWS (2009 – 2010)
JOHN FREELY FELLOW:
Dr. Sabri Ateş, Religion, Southern Methodist University, Shi’is of the Shah, Sunnis of the Sultan: Religion, Politics and the Making of the Ottoman-Iranian Boundary
The Joukowsky Family Foundation supports the John Freely Fellowships in honor of Professor John Freely.
ISTANBUL FRIENDS OF ARIT FELLOW:
Mr. Nikolaos Michailidis, History, Princeton University, Contested Roots, Uncertain Futures: the Politics of Memory and Identification in the Eastern Black Sea Region of Contemporary Turkey
Funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF APHRODISIAS, KENAN T. ERIM FELLOWSHIP:
Ms. Angela Commito, Archaeology, University of Michigan, The Yenidere Cayı Aqueduct of Aphrodisias in Context
The Kenan T. Erim Fellowship is supported by the American Friends of Aphrodisias in honor of Professor Erim.
ARIT SUMMER FELLOWS IN INTENSIVE TURKISH LANGUAGE (Summer 2009):
U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Advanced Language Fellows, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul 2009:
| Mariya | Amelicheva | Georgetown University |
| Jennifer | Auerbach | New York University |
| Tristan | Bates | University of Chicago |
| Andrea | Brown | University of Washington |
| Rebecca | Brubaker | Swarthmore College |
| Matthew | Goldman | University of Washington |
| Ryan | Goodwin | Portland State University |
| Chris | Gratien | Georgetown University |
| Veronika | Horwath | Brooklyn College |
| Cheryl | Leung | Columbia University |
| Daniel | McIntosh | Pennsylvania State University |
| Christopher | Markiewicz | University of Chicago |
| Candas | Pinar | Princeton University |
| Jeremy | Pine | University of Pennsylvania |
| Stefanos | Roulakis | Tulane University |
| Henry | Shapiro | Sabanci University |
| Alice | Shukla | American University |
| Stephanie | Trapnell | George Mason University |
| Megan | Young | University of Arizona |
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
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Critical Languages Institute Turkish Language Fellows, Alanya 2009:
| Ajla | Aljic | Seattle University |
| Amy | Archer | Brevard Community College |
| Melissa | Baughn | California State University, Northridge |
| Jeffrey | Benedict | University of Louisville |
| Lesley | Dudden | Nebraska Wesleyan University |
| Kimberly | Gouz | University of Chicago |
| Christopher | Gunn | Florida State University |
| Brian | Janiczek | Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania |
| Catherine | Long | Tennessee Technological University |
| Patrick | Scharfe | Ohio State University, Columbus |
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Critical Languages Institute Turkish Language Fellows, Ankara 2009:
| August | Cohn Thomas | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Khulood | Kandil | University of Maryland |
| Erin | McGrath | University of Pittsburgh |
| Carolina | Solms-Baruth | Virginia Wesleyan College |
| William | Zeman | American University |
| David | Mowry | Richmond University |
| Leslie | Root | Georgetown University |
| Stephanie | Russell-Kraft | Columbia University |
| Elizabeth | Shdo | Occidental College |
| Margaret | Simon | Bryn Mawr College |
| Clayton | Thomas | University of North Carolina |
| Jonathan | Withers | University of Pittsburgh |
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Critical Languages Institute Turkish Language Fellows, Bogazici University, Istanbul 2009:
| Kevin | Boyd | Georgetown University |
| Laura | Bru | Univesrtiy of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Michael | Carwile | University of Chicago |
| Nihan | Kaya | William and Mary College |
| Sydney | Lefevre | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
| Emin | Lelic | University of Chicago |
| Nir | Shafir | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Allison | Thomas | Yale University |
| Murat | Yildiz | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Lauren | Zimmerman | Boston University |
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Critical Languages Institute Turkish Language Fellows, Yildiz Teknik University, Istanbul 2009:
| Kaley | Alberty | Georgetown University |
| Jareka | Dellenbaugh-Dempsey | New York University |
| Leslie | Griffith | Duke University |
| James | Kuras | State University of New York, Geneseo |
| Brian | Miller | University of Iowa |
| Leigh | Stuckey | Duke University |
| Kristin | Tassin | University of New Orleans |
| Elizabeth | Williams | Georgetown University |
| Bessie | Young | Amherst College |
| Claire | Chenette | Oberlin College |
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Critical Languages Institute Turkish Language Fellows, Izmir 2009:
| Renee | Balliet | Pennsylvania State University, Hershey |
| Anthony | Busch | University of South Carolina |
| Jeffery | Dyer | Boston College |
| Nicole | Farina | Tufts University |
| Elizabeth | Grubbs | Kenyon College |
| Kori | Higgins | Bard College at Simon’s Rock |
| Caitlin | Katsiaficas | George Washington University |
| Rachel | Madariaga | University of Connecticut |
| Lorena | Sanchez | University of Southern California |
| Lauren | Stokes | Swarthmore College |
The United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs supports participants in the Critical Language Scholarship Program
ARIT – ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION FELLOWS (2009-2010):
Mr. Grigor A. Boykov, Grigor, History, Bilkent University, (Bulgaria), Reviving Roumelia: Urban and Rural Life in Ottoman Upper Thrace (14th-17th Centuries)
Ms. Mariya M. Kiprovska, History, Bilkent University, (Bulgaria), Power Embodied in Stones: the Architectural Legacy of the Mihaloğlu Family as an Indication of their Political Strength and Spiritual Inclinations
Dr. Viorel Panaite, History, University of Bucharest; Institute of South-East European Studies of Romanian Academy, Romania, Western Diplomacy, Commercial Navigation and Ottoman Law in the Mediterranean (Late-16th and Early-17th Centuries)
ARIT Mellon fellowships are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Council of American Overseas Research Centers administers the program.
ARIT TURKISH FELLOWS (2009):
Ms. Bilge Ar, Architecture, Istanbul Technical University, Structural Change in the Church of Aya Irine over Time
Ms. Ü. Melda Ermiş, Art History Department, Istanbul University, An Evaluation of Byzantine Period Architectural Activity in the Iznik Region
Mr. Edip Gölbaşı, Ataturk Institute, Boğaziçi University, Ottoman Policies towards the Kızılbash and Nosairian Communities
in the Hamidian Period
Dr. Rana Özbal, History, Boğaziçi University, Preparation for the Publication of the Excavation Results at Tell Kurdu (Hatay)
Ms. Müge Özbek, Atatürk Institute, Boğaziçi University, The Regulation of Prostitution in the Late Ottoman Empire (1875-1922)
Dr. Mehmet Fatih Yavuz, History, Çanakkale 18 March University,The History and Archaeology of Byzantion
ARIT Turkish fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul and the American Research Institute in Turkey
GEORGE AND ILSE HANFMANN FELLOWS (2009):
Mr.. Aytaç Coşkun, Archaeology, Dicle University, The Development of Attic-Ionic Bases in Anatolia
Ms.. Aliye Erol, History, Istanbul University, Ancient Anatolian Festivals from the Evidence of Coins
Ms. Ebru Fatma Fındık, Art History, Hacettepe University, Excavated Ceramics from the St. Nikolaos Church at Demre-Myra
Ms. Güzden Varinlioğlu, Architecture and Interior Design, Bilkent University, Virtual Museum of Underwater Cultural Heritage
MACHTELD J. MELLINK FELLOWS (2009):
Ms.. Özgü Çömezoğlu, Art History, Istanbul University, The Byzantine Ceramics from Rhodiapolis (Kumluca – Antalya)
Dr. Canan Çakırlar, Koç University RCAC, A Zooarchaeological Approach to Acculturation and Regional Transition Between Anatolia and Syria during Second Millennium BC: Case Studies from Kinet Höyük and Tell Atchana
Funding for the Hanfmann and Mellink Fellowships is provided by an anonymous donor in honor of George M. A. and Ilse B. Hanfmann and Machteld J. Mellink.
TONI M. CROSS – WILLIAM D. E. COULSON AEGEAN EXCHANGE FELLOWS (2009):
From Turkey:
Ms. Kitapçı Bayrı, History, Bogazici University and the University of Paris, The Cultural and Social Changes in Medieval Asia Minor and the Balkans through the Witnesses of the Byzantine and Turkish-Muslim Hagiographical Sources (13th – 15th Centuries)
Ms. Filiz Yaşar, History, Hacettepe University, Ankara, The Social and Economic History of Chios During the Ottoman Period (16th-18th Centuries)
Dr. Turan Takaoğlu, Archaeology, Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, Cultural Interactions in the 5th Millennium B.C. Eastern Aegean
From Greece:
Ms. Stelle Kalle, History, Thessaloniki, Greek and Turkish School Textbooks of History of the Period 1950-1974, Portrayals of “Ourselves” and the “Other” and Construction of National Identities
Dr. Gregory Stournaras, History, Volos, Dervish Orders: their Presence and the Network of tekkes in Ottoman Thessaly
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.
2008-2009
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS 2008-2009:
Dr. Shirine Hamadeh, History of Art, Rice University, Streets and the City, Istanbul 1703-1838
Dr. Hakan Karateke, Turkish Studies, Harvard University, Ottoman Turkish: the Social History of a Language
Dr. Nicolas Trépanier, History, Harvard University, Land Use in the Avkat Region, 1250-1600
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT DEPARTMENT OF STATE, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS FELLOWS (2008 – 2009):
Dr. Kimberly Hart, Anthropology, Buffalo State College, Performing Piety and Islamic Modernity in Western Turkey
Dr. Ann Killebrew, Archaeology, Pennsylvania State University, The Gulf of Iskenderun Mopsos Landscape Archaeology and Survey Project: the Chalcolithic – Ottoman Period Ceramic Sequence in the Issos and Iskenderun Plains
Ms. Susan Rottmann, Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, The Predicaments of Reciprocity at ‘Home’ for German-Turkish Return Migrants
Dr. Mirjana Stevanovic, Archaeology, Stanford University, Complexities of Architecture at Catalhoyuk
Mr. Lee Ullmann, History of Art, Columbia University, The Conception of Space in the Art and Landscape of the Hittites
Mr. Joshua White, History, University of Michigan, Catch and Release: Piracy, Slavery, and Ransom in the Early Modern Ottoman Mediterranean
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 FELLOW (2008 – 2009):
Ms. Sinem Arcak, History of Art, University of Minnesota, Islamic Art in War and Peace: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange 1501-1639
Ms. Esen Öğüş, History of Art, Harvard University, Columnar Sarcophagi from Aphrodisias: Iconography, Self-Presentation, and Civic Identity in the Roman East
Ms. Shannan Stewart, Archaeology, University of Cincinnati, Hellenistic Culture as a Mosiac: Ceramic Case Studies in Central Anatolia
ARIT Kress fellowships are funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
ARIT INSTITUTIONAL FELLOWS (2008 – 2009)
JOHN FREELY FELLOW:
Dr. Helga Anetshofer, Turkish Studies, Harvard University, Representations of Women, Sexuality, and Gender in Early Ottoman Legends, Epics, and Hagiography
The Joukowsky Family Foundation supports the John Freely Fellowships.
ISTANBUL FRIENDS OF ARIT FELLOW (2008-2009):
Mr. Metin Yüksel, Middle East Studies, University of Chicago, Mullah, Dengbêj, Intellectual: Continuity and Change in Kurdish Culture in Turkey
Funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul.
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF APHRODISIAS, KENAN T. ERIM FELLOW (2008-2009):
Ms. Leah Long, Archaeology, University of Michigan, Roman Marble Quarries at Aphrodisias
The Kenan T. Erim Fellowship is supported by the American Friends of Aphrodisias in honor of Professor Erim.
ARIT SUMMER FELLOWS IN INTENSIVE TURKISH LANGUAGE (Summer 2008)
U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Advanced Language Fellows, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul 2008:
| Aaron | Brenzel | University of Chicago |
| Joshua | Carney | Indiana University |
| Nicholas | Danforth | Independent Scholar |
| Aaron | Johnson | McGill University |
| Capri | Karaca | University of Washington |
| Anneliese | Knox | University of Arizona |
| Benjamin | Lazarus | Georgetown University |
| Daphne | McCurdy | Sabanci University |
| Elizabeth | McMurray | Mercyhurst College |
| Michael | O’Toole | University of Chicago |
| Aaron | Ranck | Bilkent University |
| Emily | Reba | American University in Cairo |
| Nir | Shafir | Harvard University |
| Gabriel | Skoog | University of Washington |
| Jocelyn | Smith | Washington 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.
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Critical Languages Institute Turkish Language Fellows, Alanya 2008:
| Evan | Alterman | Brown University |
| Tristan | Bates | Colorado College |
| Michael | Carver | Bowling Green State University |
| Jennifer | Cimaglia | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Brenden | Conrad | University of Kentucky |
| Ella | Fratantuono | University of Richmond |
| Russell | Guajardo | Stanford University |
| Andrea | Halverson | University of Chicago |
| Harold | Williford | Northwestern University |
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Critical Languages Institute Turkish Language Fellows, Ankara 2008:
| Nathan | Burns | University of Central Florida |
| Sarah | Fischer | American University |
| Michael | Liebman | Portland State University |
| Nicholas | Rummell | College of Charleston |
| Zachary | Steinert-Threlkeld | Washington University Saint Louis |
| Annie | Freeman | Princeton University |
| John | Lathers | The Citadel |
| Theresa | Lund | Harvard University |
| Matthew | Maus | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Tess | Rankin | Columbia University |
| Anne | Ruderman | Yale University |
| James | Ryan | University of Chicago |
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Critical Languages Institute Turkish Language Fellows, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul 2008:
| Josef | Burton | Portland State University |
| Carlos | Grenier | University of California, Berkeley |
| Emma | Harper | Princeton University |
| Avital | Livny | Stanford University |
| Michelle | Los | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
| Jonathan | McCollum | Brigham Young University |
| Alice | Shukla | American University |
| Omer | Sisman | University of Texas at Austin |
| Corey | Tazzara | Stanford University |
| Victoria | Zyp | Georgetown University |
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Critical Languages Institute Turkish Language Fellows, Yıldız Teknik University, Istanbul 2008:
| Leyla | Amur | University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa |
| Ryan | Centner | University of California, Berkeley |
| Jayne | Cosson | American University |
| Alexander | Ebsary | West Virginia University |
| Nicholas | Lesher | The Fletcher School, Tufts University |
| Daniel | McIntosh | Pennsylvania State University, University Park |
| Daniel | Miller | University of Maryland School of Law |
| Yan | Naroditski | Northwestern University |
| Sarah Rose | Skarzynski | Georgetown University |
| Anna | Wood | Columbia University |
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Critical Languages Institute Turkish Language Fellows, Izmir 2008:
| Brandon | Chalifoux | Rice University |
| Eric | Edwards | George Washington University |
| Sarah | Frazier | Portland State University |
| Nicholas | Kontovas | University of Chicago |
| Elisha | Meyer | School of Oriental and African Studies, London |
| Leila | Piran | The Catholic University of America |
| Dominique | Shure | Georgetown University |
| Gregory | Sixt | Clark University |
| Robert | Wilson | University of Chicago |
The United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs supports participants in the Critical Language Scholarship Program
ARIT – ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION FELLOWS (2008-2009):
Dr. Lidia D. Domaradzka, Archaeology, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria, Prosopography and Onomasticon of Diocese Thrace (4th – 6th Centuries AD)
Dr. Jan Kostenec, Archaeology, Prague Municipality, Czech Republic, New Evidence for the Architecture and Decoration of the Byzantine Hagia Sophia Complex in Istanbul
Dr. Anca Popescu, Institute of History, Bucharest, Romania, Turcology, The Ottomans and the Black Sea
ARIT Mellon fellowships are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
ARIT TURKISH FELLOWS (2008):
Ms. Danış Baykan, Archaeology, Istanbul University, Medical Instruments at Allianoi
Mr. Y. Doğan Çetinkaya, History, Boğaziçi University, The Muslim Merchants and Working Class in Action: the Ottoman Boycott Movement, 1908-1923
Dr. Tülin Değirmenci, Art History, Pamukkale University, Baghdad’s Hidden Sultan: Sokolluzade Hasan Paşa and his Illustrated History
Ms. Buket Kitapcı-Bayrı, History, Boğaziçi University, Byzantine and Turkish-Muslim Hagiographical Sources as the Witness of Social and Cultural Change in Late Medieval Anatolia (13th-15th Centuries)
Mr. Murat Metinsoy, Atatürk Institute, Boğaziçi University, Multi-Voices under a Single-Party Regime: Public Opinion, Dissent and Social Resistance in Turkey (1925-1945)
Dr. Meltem Toksöz, History, Boğaziçi University, Historians, Intellectuals and Academics: History Writing and History Education in the Late Ottoman Empire
Ms. Esra Yıldız, Art History, Istanbul Technical University, The Role of Women Artists in post-1960 Contemporary Turkish Art
Dr. Eda Ünlü Yücesoy, Architectural Design, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul at the Turn of the Century: the Economic and Social Structure of late 19th Century Istanbul
ARIT Turkish fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul and the American Research Institute in Turkey
GEORGE AND ILSE HANFMANN FELLOWS (2008):
Doç. Dr. Kutalmış Görkay, Archaeology, Ankara University, and Zeugma Excavations Director, Architecture and Iconography at the Imperial Margin: aLate Hellenistic and Roman Zeugma.
Doc. Dr. Musa Kadıoğlu, Classical Archaeology, Ankara University Classical, The Gerontikon of Nysa, its scenae frons and Sculptural Program
Yar. Doç. Arzu Öztürk, Archaeology, Mimar Sinan University, Ephesus and the Flavian Period in the Architecture of Roman Anatolia.
Mr. Barış Uzel, Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology, Ege University, An Evaluation of the Socio-economic Structure of the Upper Tigris Valley during the Second Millennium BC using Micro-archaeological Methods
MACHTELD J. MELLINK FELLOW (2008)
Nurcan Kayacan, Prehistory, Istanbul University, The Introduction, Diffusion and Practice of the Pressure Flaking Technique in Neolithic Anatolia.
Funding for the Hanfmann and Mellink Fellowships is provided by an anonymous donor in honor of George M. A. and Ilse B. Hanfmann and Machteld J. Mellink.
TONI M. CROSS – WILLIAM D. E. COULSON AEGEAN EXCHANGE FELLOWS (2008)
From Turkey:
Ms. Zuhal Mert, Politics, Marmara University, Greek Foreign Policy During the Governance of Kostas Simitis
and Change in Turkish-Greek Relations (1996-2004)
Ms. Özlem Vapur, Archaeology, Ankara University, The Roman Local Wares in Magnesia on the Meander
Mr. Özgür Turak, Archaeology, Istanbul University, Roman Sarcophagi at Pamphylia and Atelier Problems
From Greece:
Ms. Aliki Bacopoulou, Theater Studies, Athens, Modern Turkish Theater
Dr. Gregory Stournaras, History, Volos, Thessaly during the Ottoman Era: Almyros Area and the Urban Development
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.
2007 – 2008
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (2007-2008):
Dr. Markus Dressler, Religion, Hofstra University, Turkish Alevism: the Making of a Religion
Dr. Boğaç Ergene, History, University of Vermont, Class, Court, and Justice in the Ottoman Empire (1685-1794)
Mr. James H. Meyer, History, Brown University, Immigration, Return, and the Politics of Citizenship: Russian Muslims in the Ottoman Empire, 1856-1914
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT DEPARTMENT OF STATE, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS FELLOWS (2007 – 2008):
Dr. Kathleen Lynch, Classical Archaeology, University of Cincinnati, Greek Pottery at Gordion: Contexts of Use, Evidence for Trade, and Relationship to Local Wares
Dr. Christopher Ratté, Classical Archaeology, University of Michigan, Architectural Evidence for the Cultural Identity of the Region Around Aphrodisias from the 6th to the 2nd Centuries B.C.E.
Dr. Jenny White, Anthropology, Boston University, Domesticating Islam: Ethno-Religious Nationalism in Turkey
Mr. Sam White, History, Columbia University, The Little Ice Age Crisis in the Ottoman Near East
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 (2007 – 2008):
Ms. Melissa Ann Eppihimer, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, The Visual Legacy of the Akkadians: Objects in the Collections of the Istanbul Archaeological Museums
Ms. Catherine D. Painter, Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley, Daily Life in the Late Chalcolithic: Micro-debris Analysis at Kenan Tepe, Turkey
Ms. Marin Pilloud, Archaeology, The Ohio State University, Biological Distance Analysis of Neolithic Anatolia: Non-Metric and Metric Dental Variation at Çatalhöyük, Turkey
ARIT Kress fellowships are funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
ARIT INSTITUTIONAL FELLOWS (2007 – 2008):
JOHN FREELY FELLOWS:
Mr. Yiğit Akın, History, Ohio State University, All Quiet on the Home Front? Politics and Everyday Life in Istanbul During World War I
Mr. Günhan Börekçi, History, Ohio State University, Bringing the Ottoman Court Back In: Power, Patronage, and Favoritism during the Reign of Ahmed I, 1603-1617
The Joukowsky Family Foundation supports the John Freely Fellowships.
ISTANBUL FRIENDS OF ARIT FELLOW:
Ms. Lerna Ekmekcioğlu, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University, Birth of a Minority: Armenians of Turkey (1917-1942)
ARIT institutional fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF APHRODISIAS, KENAN T. ERIM FELLOW (2007-2008):
Ms. Heather Awan, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Sarcophagi and Funerary Display in Aphrodisias and Asia Minor
The Kenan T. Erim Fellowship is supported by the American Friends of Aphrodisias in his honor.
ARIT SUMMER FELLOWS IN INTENSIVE TURKISH LANGUAGE (Summer 2007):
U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Advanced Language Fellows, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul 2007:
| Christopher Bork | Indiana University |
| Jessie Clark | University of Arizona |
| Sean Cox | Hanover College |
| Mariah Cummins | Princeton University |
| Kristin Fabbe | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Laura M. Hernandez | DePaul University |
| Jonah Holmes | UC Berkeley |
| Maria Katradis | New York University |
| Eve McPhearson | UC Santa Barbara |
| Darren Miller | University of Chicago |
| Yifei Mu | Yale University |
| Amanda Pearson | Georgetown University |
| Matthew Rascoff | Columbia University |
| Jason Vivrette | UC Berkeley |
| Joshua White | University of Michigan |
| Chase Winter | University of Washington |
| Mary Zeng | Princeton 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.
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Critical Languages Institute Turkish Language Fellows, Alanya 2007:
| Leah Berry | University of Denver |
| Victoria Conner | Kansas State University |
| Sarah El-Kazaz | New York University |
| Andrea Kraus | University of Texas, Austin |
| Carson Marries | Oklahoma State University |
| Keary Mason | University of North Texas |
| Ivan Parkinson | Georgetown University |
| Jennifer Shaw | Coe college |
| Joseph Sneed | University of Oregon |
| Nanda Suriano | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Victoria Zyp | Georgetown University |
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Critical Languages Institute Turkish Language Fellows, Ankara 2007:
| Sarah Elizabeth Craft | DePauw University |
| Alice Dworkin | Beloit College |
| Renee Ho | University of California, Berkeley |
| Arben Istrefi | Seton Hall University |
| Travis Rieder | University of South Carolina, Columbia |
| Leigh Ann Sellers | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| Alice Shukla | American University |
| Michael Sims | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| AnnaLinden Weller | University of Chicago |
| Anna Yukhananov | Johns Hopkins University |
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Critical Languages Institute Turkish Language Fellows, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul 2007:
| William Carlson | Duke University |
| Sarah Flynn | University of Texas, Austin |
| Sasha Frankel | George Washington University |
| Christopher Glazek | Yale University |
| Nara Hays | University of Alaska |
| Edmund Levin | Harvard University |
| Katherine Nolan | University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire |
| Bernhard Richert | University of Chicago |
| Ilyana Sawka | Yale University |
| Jessica Taylor | East Tennessee State University |
| Caroline Thompson | California Polytechnic State University |
| Virginia Townsend | Antioch College |
| Kari White | University of Texas, Austin |
| Matthew Wilson | Rhodes College |
The United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs supports participants in the Critical Language Scholarship Program
ARIT – ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION FELLOWS (2007-2008):
Dr. Gergana Georgieva, History, Institute of Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, A Former Slave or Provincial Notable: the Social Profile of the Provincial Governor (Vali) with Special Focus on the Eyalet of Rumelia in the Early 19th Century.
Dr. Maya Vassileva, Thracology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Gordion Bronzework.
Dr. Svetlana Yanakieva, Linguistics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Thracian Hydronyms in East Thrace and Asia Minor.
ARIT Mellon fellowships are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
ARIT TURKISH FELLOWS (2007):
Ms. Ayşe Akalin, Sociology, Uludağ University, Exchanging Affect: the Migrant Domestic Workers Market in Turkey
Mr. Emin Alper, Atatürk Institute, Boğaziçi University, Politics, Students and the Educated Middle Classes in Turkey
Mr. Bahadır Apaydın, Law, Kadir Has University, The Effect of the Capitulations on the Ottoman-Turkish Legal System
Mr. Mehmet Beşikci, History, Boğaziçi University, Between Self-Mobilization and Resistance: Popular Mobilization and Militarization in Ottoman Society during the First World War
Mr. Mehmet Zafer Danış, Social Services, Hacettepe University, Factors affecting Quality of Life for the Elderly Living in Institutions: an Area Study from Ankara
Ms. Nurçin İleri, Ataturk Institute, Boğaziçi University, Lighting the Streets in the late 19th Century Ottoman Empire and Changes in Everyday Life
Ms. Şahika Karaca, Education, Kayseri University, The Life of Emine Semiye—Her World and her Works
Dr. Şuhnaz Yalçın, International Relations, Koç University, Turkish American Relations: a New Perspective
Mr. Şahin Yıldırım, Art History, Trakya University, The Evolution and Development of Tumulus Burial Sites in Eastern Thrace
ARIT Turkish fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul and the American Research Institute in Turkey.
ARIT TURKISH CULTURAL FOUNDATION FELLOWS (2007):
Ms. Pelin Gürol, Architectural History, Middle East Technical University, The Imperial Museum Building in Istanbul: Architecture, Archaeology, and Museums in the Late Ottoman Period
Ms. Sevgi Parlak, Art History, Istanbul University, The Organization and Structure of the Inner Castle in Pre-Ottoman Anatolian Turkish Cities
Ms. Nevin Zeynep Yelçe, History, Sabancı University, The Making of Sultan Süleyman: A Study of Processes of Image-Making and Management
ARIT Turkish Cultural Foundation fellowships are funded by the Turkish Cultural Foundation.
GEORGE AND ILSE HANFMANN FELLOWS (2007):
Ms. Sevinç Duvarcı, Bogazici University, History Department, Ph.D. Candidate, Investigating Early and Middle Iron Age Pottery in the Tarsus Study Collection at Bryn Mawr College (Ella Riegel Museum) and Harvard University (Peabody Museum).
Dr. Deniz Burcu Erciyas, Settlement Archaeology, Middle East Technical University, A Research Project on Komana Pontika: Defining the Site in Terms of Settlement Type, Socio-Cultural And Economic Structure And Religious Significance.
Ms. Filiz İnanan, Byzantine Art, Ege University, Byzantine Period – Zeuksippus Ceramics.
Mr. Görkem Kökdemir, Archaeology, Ankara University, The Propylon at Magnesia on the Meander in Light of Augustan Period Architecture and Architectural Ornament.
MACHTELD J. MELLINK FELLOW (2007):
Ms. Eylem Özdoğan, Prehistory, Istanbul University, The Transition from the Early to Middle Neolithic Periods in the Balkans in Light of Recent Research in Thrace
Funding for the Hanfmann and Mellink Fellowships is provided by an anonymous donor in honor of George M. A. and Ilse B. Hanfmann and Machteld J. Mellink.
TONI M. CROSS – WILLIAM D. E. COULSON AEGEAN EXCHANGE FELLOWS (2007):
From Turkey:
Ms. Elif Bayraktar, History, Bilkent University, The Role of the Greek Patriarchate of Istanbul vis-à-vis the Ottoman Empire in the 17th and 18th Centuries.
Mr. Foti Benlisoy, History, Bogaziçi University, The Asia Minor Disaster and the Federation of the Old Warriors’ Associations.
Ms. Merih Erol, History, Bogaziçi University, Cultural Identifications of the Greeks of the Ottoman Empire. Discourses on Music in the19th and Early 20th Centuries.
From Greece:
Ms. Konstantina Andrianopoulou, History and Political Science, Panteion University, Athens, Revisiting the Rum Minority in Istanbul during the Interwar Period: Aspects and Realities of Communal Life on the Borders of the Turkish and Greek Nation States.
Mr. Dimitrios Loupis, Ottoman History, Harvard University, Developments of the Late Byzantine Era and Early Ottoman Period in Western Anatolia and the Balkans.
Ms. Aikaterina Stathi, Ottoman History, Panteion University, Athens, A Social History of the City of Athens during the 18th and Early 19th Centuries.
Ms. Elissavet Tzavella, Byzantine, Ottoman, and Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, UK, Excavated Pottery from Sites of Late Roman and Early Byzantine Attica.
Mrs. Maria Xyda, Architecture, University of Thessaloniki, Universita della Sapienza di Roma, and Taksim Teknik Universitesi «Ξυστά» (Graffiti) at Chios and in Cappadocia.
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
2006 – 2007
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (2006-2007)
Dr. Karen Leal, History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, The Ottoman Empire and the Classical Tradition at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century
Dr. Victor Ostapchuk, Middle Eastern History, University of Toronto, The Ottoman Timar System in the ‘Age of Decline,’ 1590-1650
Dr. Azade Seyhan, German and Comparative Literature, Bryn Mawr College, Tales of Crossed Destinies: Turkish Novel Between Tradition and Modernity
Dr. Hüseyin Yılmaz, History and Middle Eastern Studies, Stanford University, Envisioning Rulership in Ottoman Political Culture during the Age of Süleyman the Lawgiver
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT DEPARTMENT OF STATE, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS FELLOWS (2006 – 2007):
Dr. Deborah Carlson, Institute for Nautical Archaeology, Texas A&M University, Rethinking ‘The Problem of Classical Ionia:’ the Tektaş Burnu Shipwreck
Dr. Owen Doonan, Archaeology, California State University, Northridge, Colonization in the longue durée: Studies in the Development of a Colonial Landscape around Sinop, Turkey
Dr. Christiane Gruber, Islamic Art, Indiana University, The Anonymous Mi´rajnama in the Süleymaniye Library (Aya Sofya 3441): a Prayer Manual of the Ilkhanid Period
Mr. Ian Lockey, Classical Archaeology, New York University, The Atrium House at Aphrodisias, Caria
Mr. Andrew Robarts, History, Georgetown University, Ottoman and Russian Migration Management Policies in the Black Sea Region, 1768-1829
Dr. Christopher Roosevelt, Archaeology, Boston University, Archaeological Survey in Lydian Landscapes
Mr. Jeremy Walton, Anthropology, University of Chicago, Civic Virtue in a State of Constraint: Islam and Secularism among the Vakıflar of Contemporary 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 (2006 – 2007):
Ms. Elâ Kaçel, History of Architecture and Urbanism, Cornell University, Intellectualism and Consumerism: Ideologies, Practices, and Criticisms of Postwar Modernism in Turkey and the United States
Ms. Serena Love, Archaeology, Stanford University, Building Neolithic Communities Through Architecture: a Case Study from Çatalhöyük, Central Anatolia
ARIT Kress fellowships are funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
ARIT INSTITUTIONAL FELLOWS (2006 – 2007)
JOHN FREELY FELLOWS:
Dr. Emine Fetvacı, History of Art and Architecture, Rice University, Multiple Visions: Official and Unofficial Illustrated Ottoman Histories
Mr. İbrahim Şahin, History, University of Chicago, From Kemalpaşazade to Hoca Saddein: the Emergence of a New Ottoman History Writing in the Sixteenth Century
The Joukowsky Family Foundation supports the John Freely Fellowships.
ISTANBUL FRIENDS OF ARIT FELLOW (2006-2007):
Mr. Ahmed El-Shamsy, History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, The Role of Legal Maxims in the Development of Islamic Law
ARIT institutional fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF APHRODISIAS, KENAN T. ERIM FELLOW (2006-2007):
Mr. Ian Lockey, Classical Archaeology, New York University, The Atrium House at Aphrodisias, Caria
The Kenan T. Erim Fellowship is supported by the American Friends of Aphrodisias in his honor.
ARIT SUMMER FELLOWS IN INTENSIVE TURKISH LANGUAGE (Summer 2006)
U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Advanced Language Fellows, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul 2006:
| Yaron Ayalon | Princeton University |
| Kevin Boyd | Georgetown University |
| Brad Dennis | University of Utah |
| Kristin Dickinson | New York University |
| Matthew Erickson | University of Washington |
| Aaron Franklin | University of Washington |
| Garner Gollatz | Harvard University |
| Zoe Griffith | University of California, Berkeley |
| Joshua Hendrick | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Marcia Hermanson | Loyola University |
| Tanaz Khambatta | American University |
| Emily Marshall | Princeton University |
| Michelle McCloskey | University of Texas, Austin |
| Tuğçe Mengüç | Georgetown University |
| Dane Miller | Boston University |
| Leanna Sudhof | Yale University |
| Peter Valenti | 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.
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Critical Languages Institute Turkish Language Fellows, Ankara 2006:
| Fedja Buric | University of Illinois |
| Gerard Doran | Northwestern University |
| Kristin Fabbe | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Laura Gavinski | Haverford College |
| Melisa Gerecci | University of Texas, Austin |
| Laura Hernandez | DePaul University |
| Ivan Rasmussen | Princeton University |
| Emily Reba | New York University |
| Brenton Ruth | Nebraska Wesleyan University |
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Critical Languages Institute Turkish Language Fellows, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul 2006:
| Michael Burch | George Washington University |
| Kathryn Duckett | Hampshire College |
| Katherine Dunn | Georgetown University |
| Jill Luxenberg | Brown University |
| Yasmin Naghash | University of Michigan |
| Michael Prohaska | College of Wooster |
| Katherine Shields | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Priya Suriya | City College of New York |
| Jeremy Wacksman | College of William and Mary |
| Andrew Yarbrough | Colorado College |
| Victoria Lundgren | Portland State University |
| Timothy Nolan-Erhard | University of Arizona |
| Amzie Pavlisin | Oberlin College |
| Meghan Rasmussen | Syracuse University |
| Jason Vivrette | University of California, Berkeley |
| Chase Winter | University of Washington |
| Mary Zeng | Princeton University |
The United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs supports participants in the Critical Language Scholarship Program
ARIT – ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION FELLOWS (2006-2007):
Dr. Attila Buhály, History, College of Nyíiregyhgáza, Hungary, Urartian Rock Inscriptions in Eastern Turkey
Dr. Géza Dávid, Turkish Studies, Loránd Eötvös University, The Population of Ottoman Hungary in the 16th Century (Comparisons with the Ottoman Empire in the 15th and 16th Century (reinvitation award)
Dr Rossitsa Gradeva, Insitute of Balkan Studies, American University in Bulgaria, Religion and Politics in the Ottoman Empire: Ottoman Policy to Non-Muslims’ Cult Buildings, from the End of the 17th- to the Beginning of the 18th Century
ARIT Mellon fellowships are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
ARIT TURKISH FELLOWS (2006):
Dr. Yeşim Aksan and Dr. Dilek Kantar, English Language and Literature, Mersin University, A Contrastive Cognitive View of Love Metaphors in English and in Turkish
Ms. Özgü Çömezoğlu, Art History, Istanbul University, Glass Manufacture in the Mediterranean Region during the Byzantine Period in the Light of Finds at the Church of St. Nicholas in Demre
Ms. Cemile Ekin Eremsoy, Psychology, Middle East Technical University, Comparison of Parental and Familial Characteristics as Predictors of Conduct Problems for Children with and without Psychopathic Tendencies
Ms. Işıl R. Işıklıkaya, Archaeology, Istanbul University, The Mosaics of Perge (Pamphylia)
Ms. Tuba Kancı, Politics, Sabancı University, Women and Men of an Imagined Community: Gender Constructions of the Turkish Republic in Textbooks (1928-2000)
Ms. Elif Koparal, Archaeology, Middle East Technical University, Urbanization in Northern Ionia: from the Early Iron Age until the Hellenistic Period
Mr. Görkem Kökdemir, Classical Archaeology, Ankara University, Detail in Augustan Period Ornamentation
Ms. Ayça Tiryaki, Art History, Istanbul University, Kisleçukuru Monastery: a Byzantine Monastery from the Twelfth Century in Antalya
Ms. Müjde Türkmen, Archaeology, Istanbul University, Severan Period Architectural Ornament in Pamphylia and Cilicia
Ms. Özlem Vapur, Classical Archaeology, Ankara University, The Kiln-Fired Ceramics from the City of Magnesia Ad Maeandrum
ARIT Turkish fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul and the American Research Institute in Turkey
ARIT TURKISH CULTURAL FOUNDATION FELLOWS (2006):
Dr. Ayşegül Aykurt, Archaeology, Hacettepe University, Early Bronze Age Pottery from Kocabaş Tepe
Ms. Yasemin Beyazit, History, Ankara University, An Analysis of the Ottoman İlmiye as a Social Class in the 16.-17. Centuries
Ms. Zeynep Eres, Architectural Restoration, Istanbul Technical University, Evaluating Early Republican Period Planned Rural Settlements as a Cultural Resource: the Rural Settlements Created by the General Inspectorship of Thrace from 1935-1941
Ms. Merih Erol, History, Boğaziçi University, Cultural Identifications of the Greeks of the Ottoman Empire: a Discourse on Music in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Ms. Sevilay Kasap, Modern History, Marmara University, Non-Muslims in the Ottoman Central Bureaucracy
Ms. Yonca Kösebay Erkan, Architectural Restoration, Istanbul Technical University, The Architecture that Developed in Association with Railroads in the late Ottoman Period and its Conservation
Mr. Fatih Yeşil, History, Hacettepe University, Ottoman Military Transformation between 1793 and 1826 and its Effects on the Socio-Economy and on State Structure
ARIT Turkish Cultural Foundation fellowships are funded by the Turkish Cultural Foundation.
GEORGE AND ILSE HANFMANN FELLOWS (2006):
Dr. Sedef Çokay-Kepçe, Archaeology, Istanbul University, The Perge West Necropolis Grave Finds
Mr. Baki Demirtaş, Archaeology, Ankara University, Technical and Workmanship Characteristics of the Temple of Artemis in Magnesia.
Ms. Yasemin Yılmaz, Archaeology, Istanbul University, Burial Practices in Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic Anatolia: the Çayönü Example
MACHTELD J. MELLINK FELLOW (2006):
Dr. Bahattin Çelik, Archaeology, Harran University, The Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period in Southeast Anatolia in the Light of Studies on the Settlements at Yenimahalle, Karahantepe, Sefer Tepe and Hamzantepe in Urfa
Funding for the Hanfmann and Mellink Fellowships is provided by an anonymous donor in honor of George M. A. and Ilse B. Hanfmann and Machteld J. Mellink.
TONI M. CROSS – WILLIAM D. E. COULSON AEGEAN EXCHANGE FELLOWS (2006)
From Turkey:
Dr. Zeynep Aktüre, Architecture, Middle East Technical University, Roman Period Transformations in Ancient Theaters in Modern Greece
Ms. Buket Coşkuner, Art History, Hacettepe University, Scenes of the Nativity and Crucifixion of Christ in the Cappadocia Region
Dr. Kaan İren, Archaeology, Muğla University, The Archaic Necropolis of Gryneion
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
2005 – 2006
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (2005-2006)
Professor Nicholas Cahill, Archaeology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Partitioned Cities in Anatolia
Ms. İpek Yosmaoğlu-Turner, History, Princeton University, Passages into Nationhood: Imperial Disintegration and the Making of National Identity in Ottoman Macedonia, 1897-1912
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT DEPARTMENT OF STATE, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS FELLOWS (2005 – 2006):
Ms. Lale Can, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and History, New York University, Subjects of the Tsar, Brothers of the Sultan: the Ferghana Valley between Russian Colonialism and Ottoman Pan-Islamism
Dr. Kay Ebel, Geography, Ohio Wesleyan University/McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, City Views, Imperial Visions: Geographical Narratives of Ottoman Imperialism, 1453-1603
Mr. Eliot Bates, Ethnomusicology, University of California at Berkeley, Cultural Debates in Istanbul Recording Studios
Mr. Tolga Esmer, History, University of Chicago, Religion and Rebellion: the Cultural Practices of Christian and Muslim Notables in Ottoman Bulgaria, c. 1750-1839
Mr. Ryan Gingeras, History, University of Toronto, Notorious Subjects, Invisible Citizens: Ethnicity, Islam, and Revolution in Western Anatolia, 1914-1936 (with funding from the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul)
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 (2005 – 2006):
Ms. Suzan Yalman, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, A Civilizing Mission? Religion, Urbanism, and Identity in the Architectural Patronage of Sultan Alaeddin Keykubad (r.1220-1237)
Mr. Andrew Creekmore, Archaeology, Northwestern University, Investigating the Role of Neighborhoods in the Development of Mesopotamian Cities: the Case of Kazane Höyük
ARIT Kress fellowships were funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
ARIT INSTITUTIONAL FELLOWS (2005 – 2006)
JOHN FREELY FELLOW:
Ms. Ebru Kayaalp, Anthropology, Rice University, From Seed to Smoke: an Ethnography of Tobacco Production in Turkey
The Joukowsky Family Foundation supports the John Freely Fellowships.
ISTANBUL FRIENDS OF ARIT FELLOW:
Mr. Ryan Gingeras, History, University of Toronto, Notorious Subjects, Invisible Citizens: Ethnicity, Islam, and Revolution in Western Anatolia, 1914-1936 (with ECA funding, see above)
ARIT institutional fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF APHRODISIAS, KENAN T. ERIM FELLOW:
Mr. Philip T. Stinson, Archaeology, New York University, The Civil Basilica of Aphrodisias and the Architectural Development of the Asiatic Basilica
The Kenan T. Erim Fellowship was supported by the American Friends of Aphrodisias in his honor.
ARIT SUMMER FELLOWS IN INTENSIVE TURKISH LANGUAGE (Summer 2005)
U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Advanced Language Fellows, Bogazici University, Istanbul 2005:
| Julia Cohen | Stanford University |
| Mathew Creighton | University of Pennsylvania |
| Ceylan Erman | Princeton University |
| Zhaleh Feizollahi | Georgetown University |
| John Frager | Columbia University |
| Michael Gold | University of Minnesota |
| Bryce Kaufmann | Yale University |
| Ryan Keating | Yale University |
| Jennifer Miller | Rutgers University |
| Sepideh Monirabbassi | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Rachel Anne Prager | University of Chicago |
| Dayla Rogers | University of Michigan |
| Katayoun Sadeghi | New York University |
| David Stevens | Columbia University |
| Jeremy Walton | University of Chicago |
| Sam White | Columbia 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 (2005-2006):
Dr. Éva Csáki, Turkology/History/Linguistics, Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary, Bektashi Traditions in Thrace
Dr. Vasilica Lungu, Archaeology, Institute of Southeast European Studies, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania, The Cultural Mobility of the Phrygians in the Black Sea Basin
Dr. Mirena Slavova, Classics, St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria, Thracian and Greek Epigraphic Evidence in East Thrace and Asia Minor
ARIT Mellon fellowships were funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
ARIT TURKISH FELLOWS (2005):
Dr. Meryem Acara, Art History, Hacettepe University, Armenian Mastercraftsmen and Metalworking in 17th and 18th Century Anatolia
Dr. Turgut Saner and Dr. Zeynep Kuban, Archaeology and History of Architecture, Istanbul Technical University, An Archaeological and Architectural Survey of the Sacred Spaces of Lake Kıran
Mr. Ömerül Bölükbaşı, History, Marmara University, The Ottoman Imperial Mint in the Second Half of the 18th Century
Mr. Bahattin Çelik, Archaeology, Hacettepe University, Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Culture in Southeastern Anatolia in the Light of Recently Discovered Settlements of Yeni Mahalle, Karahan Tepe, Sefer Tepe, and Hamzan Tepe, in Urfa Province
Mr. Aytaç Coşkun, Archaeology, Ankara University, The Apollo Smintheus Temple in Gülpınar
Ms. Didem Danış, Sociology, Galatasaray University, Networks in Mobility: Iraqi Transit Migrants in Istanbul
Mr. Selçuk Dursun, History, Sabancı University, The Fleet, the Forests, and the Nation: the Administration of Forest Lands in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, 1850-1950
Ms. Betül Ekimci, Architecture, Istanbul Technical University, The Architectural Legacy of the Pious Foundations of Üsküdar
ARIT Turkish fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul and the American Research Institute in Turkey.
ARIT TURKISH CULTURAL FOUNDATION FELLOWS (2005):
Dr. Nazlı Çınardalı-Karaaslan, Archaeology, Hacettepe University, The Importance for Aegean Archaeology of the Decorative Objects Found in the Panaztepe Excavations
Dr. Bora Uysal, Archaeology, Hacettepe University, The Nineveh V Ceramics from Girnavaz
Mr. Evren Çelik-Wiltse, International Affairs, Hacettepe University, After the Fog of Reform: Prospects for ‘Democracy Without Qualifiers’ in Mexico and Turkey
Ms. F. Arzu Demirel, Palaeo-Anthropology, Ankara University, The Small Mammal Taphonomy of the Karain Cave
Ms. Pınar Dost, The French Institute of Anatolian Studies at Istanbul, Turkish Neutrality during the Second World War: the Westernization Project between the Traditional German Orientation and a New American Orientation (1939-1947)
Mr. R. Eser Kortanoğlu, Classical Archaeology, Istanbul University, The Rock-Cut Tombs of Phrygia in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
ARIT Turkish Cultural Foundation fellowships were funded by the Turkish Cultural Foundation.
GEORGE AND ILSE HANFMANN FELLOWS (2005):
Dr. Şevket Dönmez, Archaeology, Istanbul University, The Significance of the Iron Age Sites of Samsun Province Surveyed in 1997-2004 and of the Objects found at those Sites in the Iron Age Cultures of Anatolia and Black Sea Basin.
Ms. Vildan Gürdil, Art and Archaeology, Istanbul University The Appearance of Paint-Decorated Pottery in Southeastern Anatolia and the Influence of the Tradition in the Halaf Period (University of Manchester, Manchester, England)
Mr. Hüseyin Köker, History, Istanbul University Catalogue of the Ancient Greek Coins in the Burdur Museum (American Numismatic Society, New York)
Mr. Fatih Onur, Greek Epigraphy, Akdeniz University The Army Reform of Emperor Anastasius I, on the Basis of a New Military Inscription from Perge (Oxford University)
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 (2005)
From Turkey:
Mr. Baki Demirtaş, Archaeology, Ankara University, A Comparision of the Technical and Workmanship Characteristics of the Temple of Artemis at Magnesia on the Meander with Four Monuments at Olympia.
Ms. Sertaç Erten, City and Regional Planning, Middle East Technical University, Bidding For Hosting Mega-Sports Events as a Problem of Sports-Infrastructure Capacity Building: Olympic Bids of Istanbul and Athens as a Comparative Study.
Dr. Elçin Macar, Political Science and International Relations, Yıldız Technical University, Turkey’s Aid to Greece During World War II – The Ship ‘Kurtuluş’
Dr. Şenay Özdemir, History, Mersin University, The Significance of Greek Sailors in the Ottoman Navy.
From Greece:
Dr. Christina Kokkinia, Institute of Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Research Foundation, Epigraphy of the Lycian Region
Mr. Ioannis Papadopoulos, Political Science and History, Panteion University of Athens, Migration from Ottoman Asia Minor and Thrace to the United States of America from the Beginning of the 19th Century to 1929
Ms. Athena Boleti, Aegean Prehistory, University of Paris I – Pantheon-Sorbonne, The Exploitation of Emery in Eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age
Dr. Despina Ignatiadou, Curator, Archaeological Museum in Thessaloniki, Colorless Glass of the 4th century BC in Asia Minor
Ms. Maria Tsouli, Archaeology, University of Athens, Gladiatorial Monuments in the Greek-Speaking provinces of the Roman Empire: the Case of the Provinces of Achaea, Macedonia, Epirus, Crete, Cyprus and Asia
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
