2022-2023
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (2022-2023):
Dr. Perin Gürel, Transnational American Studies, Notre Dame University, Turkey, Iran, and the Politics of Comparison
Dr. Kenan Sharpe, International Studies, Independent scholar, Rockers and Radicals in Anatolia: Turkish Psychedelic Music and the Global 1960s
Dr. Sarah Yeomans, Art History, Classical Archaeology, University of Southern California, Roman Medicine in Rhodiapolis: An Imperial-Era Medical School
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT – DEPARTMENT OF STATE, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS FELLOWS (2022-2023):
Ms. Bayan Abubakr, Middle Eastern and African History, Yale University, The Forty Days’ Road and the World Around It: Race, Slavery, and Society in Ottoman-Egyptian Sudan, 1821-1904
Dr. Donovan Adams, Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, University of Central Florida, Biological Diversity and Community Structure at Early Bronze Age Karataș-Semayük
Mr. Henry Clements, Middle Eastern History, Yale University, History and the Struggle for Distinction: The Syriac Christians of the Ottoman Empire
Ms. Deren Ertaș, Middle Eastern Studies, History, Harvard University, Making the Keban-Ergani Mining Nexus: A New Materialist Examination of Late Ottoman Statecraft (1708-1908)
Ms. Elena Gittleman, Byzantine Art History, Bryn Mawr College, Legacies of Ancient Theater in Middle Byzantine Visual Culture (ca. 843-1204)
Mr. Patrick Willett, Archaeology and Anthropology, Prehistoric, University at Buffalo – SUNY and University of Leuven, Revealing a Middle-Late Palaeolithic Landscape in Central Anatolia
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 FELLOWS (2022-2023)
EVAN and LEMAN FOTOS FELLOW:
Ms. Özge Karagöz, Art History, Northwestern University, Refiguring Art across Revolutions: Turkish and Soviet Artists in Alliance, 1933-1938
JOHN FREELY FELLOW:
Mr. Anıl Aşkın, History, Ottoman, Brown University, The Capital Which Brings Peace and Security in Two Worlds:”: Ottoman Extractivisim in the Early Nineteenth Century (1800-1850)
FRIENDS OF ARIT FELLOW:
Ms. Neșe Kaya Özkan, Linguistic Anthropology, University of Arizona, Language Loss, Environmental Change, and Activism in Homshetsi Lands, Turkey
ARIT Fellowships are funded by the Evan and Leman Fotos Foundation and the Friends of ARIT and the Friends in honor of John Freely.
TONI M. CROSS – WILLIAM D. E. COULSON AEGEAN EXCHANGE FELLOWS (2022)
Turkey:
Ms. Saffet Hülya Canbakal, Ottoman History, Sabanci University, The Economics of Gender Inequality in Ottoman Empire: An Integrational and Intercommunal Comparison
Greece:
Mr. Dimitrios Bartzis, Archaeology, National Technical University of Athens, The Early History of the Ionic Capital and the Mediterranean Origins of Greek Temple Architecture
Mr. Petros Kastrinakis, History and Archaeology, University of Crete, An Ottoman Port in the 19th Century: The Case of Chania (Ottoman Hanya)
Ms. Dimitra Sikalidou, Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Consideration of Methodologies and Historical Interpretation in the Study of Paleologan Church Architecture
Mr. Dimitrios Stergiopoulos, Center for Hellenic Studies, University of California, San Diego, Making a Fortune in a Time of Crisis; The Bankers of Athens and Istanbul in the 1870s
ARIT and ASCSA 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.
ARIT SUMMER FELLOWS IN INTENSIVE TURKISH LANGUAGE (Summer 2022)
U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Advanced Language Fellows for 2022, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul:
| Michael Aboutboul | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Nazrawith Tibebu Alemayehu | University of North Carolina |
| Michael Gregory Battalia | Princeton University |
| Andrew Bonney | Brigham Young University |
| Nicholas Brenner | University of Pennsylvania |
| Huseyin Cakir | University of Pennsylvania |
| Katherine Anne Costello | University of Chicago |
| Diana K. Elhard | Northwestern University |
| Elyakim Engelmann-Suissa | University of Pennsylvania |
| Emily Rose Joseph | Sabanci University |
| Hilah Kohen | University of Pennsylvania |
| Sophia Claire Limacher | Georgetown University |
| Julio Marcone | University of Chicago |
| Adam Ahmad Medadi | American University |
| Shireen M. Nabatian | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Brittany Delores White | University of Virginia |
| Brittany L. Wood | Murray State University |
The U.S. Department of Education, Georgetown 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.
GEORGE AND ILSE HANFMANN FELLOWS (2022)
GEORGE M. A. HANFMANN FELLOWS:
Mr. Ozan Yıldırım, Istanbul Technical University, The Necropolis of Larisa (Aeolis): Topography, Architecture, and Social-Representational Patterns
Ms. Dicle Kaya Derinoğullu, Archaeology, Istanbul University, Roman Bridges in Eastern Thrace and Anatolia in Late Antiquity: A Collective Evaluation from a Typological and Architectural Perspective
ILSE B. HANFMANN FELLOW:
Ms. Arzu Güler, Landscape Architecture, Istanbul Teknik University, Tracing the Past with Historic Landscape Characterization: Alaca Höyük
Ms. Serap Yinsel, Art History, Hacettepe University, The Monastery of Stylos at Bafa Lake (Latmos)
MACHTELD J. MELLINK FELLOWS:
Ms. Pınar Özükurt, Prehistory, Istanbul University, A Bioarchaeological Approach to Tepecik-Çiftlik Zooarchaeological Remains
Dr. Ümit Gündoğan, Archaeology, Batman University, Early Bronze Age Cult and Ritual in Western Anatolia and the Aegean in Light of the “Open-Air Sanctuary” at Bakla Tepe
Ms. Zeynep Beyza Ağırsoy, Prehistory, Ankara University, The Neolithic Chipped Stone Industry of Gre Filla (Diyarbakır, Turkey)
The Hanfmann and Mellink Fellowships are supported by the Merops Foundation in honor of George M. A. and Ilse B. Hanfmann and Machteld J. Mellink.
ARIT TURKISH FELLOWS (2022):
Mr. Tolga Kaan Kıyak, Archaeology, Hacettepe University, The Significance of the 2nd Millennium BC Çine-Tepecik Ceramics in the Western Anatolian and Aegean Archaeology
Ms. Emine Öztaner, Art History and Archaeology, Koç University, Reconstructing Nurbanu Sultan’s Neighborhood and Recreating its Community: The Biography of a 16th-Century Üsküdar Community
Ms. Sultan Sarı Ertaştan, Archaeology, Batman University, Understanding the Neolithization of Northwestern Anatolia in Light of Animal Remains from the Bilecik Bahçelievler Excavations
Mr. Fatich Toumpan, Archaeology, Ankara University, Alexander the Great on Roman City Coins: Iconography, Symbolism, and Cities
Ms. Ebru Tuna, Archaeology, Ege University, Socio-Cultural Development of Konya Basin in the 4th and 3rd Millennia BC in the Context of Ceramics Ecology
Ms. Uğurgül Tunç, Art History and Archaeology, Koç University, Places of Healing and Hospitals in the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Periods
ARIT Turkish fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul and the American Research Institute in Turkey.
2021-2022
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (2021-2022):
Dr. Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano, Ottoman History, University of Pennsylvania, ‘All the Shaykh’s Poets:’ Politics, Doctrine, and Poetry in the Ottoman Early Modern World (1452-1512)
Dr. Elif Babül, Sociology and Anthropology, Mount Holyoke, Oppressive Generosity, Compulsory Guesthood, and the Politics of Hospitality in Turkey
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT – DEPARTMENT OF STATE, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS FELLOWS (2021-2022):
Ms. Arianne Ekinci, Asian History, Global History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, East Turkestani Migrants and the Limits of Ethnic Citizenship in Turkey, 1952-Present
Ms. Myrsini A. Manney-Kalogera, Ottoman History, University of Arizona, Ottoman Patronage Networks and Greek Schools from the Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Mr. Steven Randal Moon, Ethnomusicology, University of Pittsburgh, Sounding Birth, Disciplining Music
Dr. Akiva Sanders, Near Eastern Art and Archaeology, University of Chicago, Third Millennium Tepecik: Transformations at a Conservative Village in a Dynamic Borderland
Ms. Deborah Marie Sokolowski, Classical Studies, Ancient History, Columbia University, Redefining ‘Rural’: Culture and Identity in Roman Bithynia in the 1st-4th Centuries CE
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 FELLOWS (2021-2022)
EVAN and LEMAN FOTOS FELLOW:
Mr. Onur Arslan, Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Davis, Terrorism Expertise and ‘Suspicious’ Signals: Remaking the War on Terror in Turkey
JOHN FREELY FELLOW:
Ms. Sultan Toprak Oker, History, Ottoman, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Exploring Ottoman Istanbul: Archival Research and Computer Technologies
FRIENDS OF ARIT FELLOW:
Ms. Hazal Özdemir, History, Northwestern University, ‘They Vowed to Never Return:’ Photographic Documentation and Armenian Mobility at the End of Empire
ARIT Fellowships are funded by the Evan and Leman Fotos Foundation and the Friends of ARIT.
TONI M. CROSS – WILLIAM D. E. COULSON AEGEAN EXCHANGE FELLOWS (2021)
Turkey:
Dr. Berkay Dinçer, Paleoanthropology, Istanbul University, When the Aegean Sea Was a Bridge: The Paleolithic of Greece and Western Anatolia
Prof. Kayhan Orbay, History, Middle East Technical University, Managing the Waqf Properties and Revenues in Crete
Greece:
Ms. Vasiliki Anevlavi, Researcher, Archaeology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, From Prokonnesos to Thracia: Diffusion of Prokonnesian Marble in the Roman World with Special Interest in Thrace
ARIT and ASCSA 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.
ARIT SUMMER FELLOWS IN INTENSIVE TURKISH LANGUAGE (Summer 2021)
U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Advanced Language Fellows for 2021, online at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul:
2020 Fellows
| Esraa Ahmed | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Trevor Brabyn | Columbia University |
| Robert Elliott | Duke University |
| Eleanor Ellis | Harvard University |
| Ruanne Elmalawani | Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies |
| Abigail Everding | Northwestern University |
| Julia Jakus | Boğaziçi University |
| Helen Kemprecos | New York University |
| Myrsini Manney-Kalogera | University of Arizona |
| Thomas McDonald | Stanford University |
| Andrew O’Donohue | Harvard University |
| Omar Sadik | Portland State University |
| Ashley Thornton | University of Texas, Austin |
| William Walk | Brown University |
2021 Fellows
| Sophia Ahmad | University of Texas, Austin |
| Michael Barron | University of Pennsylvania |
| Christina DiFabio | University of Michigan |
| Arianne Ekinci | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Kate Fin | Georgetown University |
| August Ikram | University of St. Gallen |
| Luke Jeske | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Hannah Kim | University of Chicago |
| Thomas Kwon | Boston University |
| Elmira Louie | University of California, Davis |
| Anna Markouizos | New York University |
| Irene Morse | University of Michigan |
| Madeleine Nephew | Columbia University |
| Mustafa Salama | Georgia State University |
| Lucas Waldron | University of Pittsburgh |
| Alika Zangieva | Princeton University |
The U.S. Department of Education, Georgetown 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.
GEORGE AND ILSE HANFMANN FELLOWS (2021)
GEORGE M. A. HANFMANN FELLOWS:
Mr. Deniz Berk Tokbudak, Classical Archaeology, Ankara University, Karamanoğu Mehmetbey University, Flavian Building Programme in Asia Minor
Ms. Merve Yeşil, Classical Archaeology, Isparta Süleyman Demirel University, The Roman Pottery Found in Hellenistic Stoa of Alexandria Troas Ancient City
ILSE B. HANFMANN FELLOW:
Dr. Taner Güler, Gemi Konservasyon ve Rekonstrüksiyon Laboratuvarı, Istanbul University, Comparison of Yenikapı Shipwrecks with their Contemporaries Found in Europe Based on YK20 and YK21 Examples in Terms of Ship Construction Techniques
MACHTELD J. MELLINK FELLOWS:
Mr. Tunç Kaner, Archaeology, Koç University, Ceramic Energetics: A Holistic Material Approach to the Production of Late Bronze Age Ceramics from Western Anatolia
Ms. Öznür Özmen-Batıhan, Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology, Ege University, The Seal and Sealing at Başur Höyük
The Hanfmann and Mellink Fellowships are supported by the Merops Foundation in honor of George M. A. and Ilse B. Hanfmann and Machteld J. Mellink.
ARIT TURKISH FELLOWS (2021):
Mr. Atalay Karatak, Cultural Heritage Protection, Hacı Bayram Veli University, Archaeometric Analysis and Conservation of Iron Objects from the Excavations in the Citadel of Ayanis
Ms. Amine Kaya, Art History, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar University, Ayyubid Period Architecture and Urbanism in Anatolia
Mr. Yusuf Tuna, Archaeology, Hacettepe University, A Re-Evaluation of the Western and Central Anatolian Early Bronze Age Chronology in Light of New Absolute Dating Data at Küllüoba
Mr. Mehmet Cihangir Uzun, Art History, Anadolu University, Late Antique and Early Byzantine Fountains in Anatolia
Mr. Kaan Ürker, Paleoanthropology, Ankara University, Paleoanthropological Analysis of Human Burials from the Archaic Period Belen Tepe (Milas)
Ms. Serap Yinsel, Art History, Hacettepe University, The Stylos Monastery at Bafa Lake (Latmos)
ARIT Turkish fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul and the American Research Institute in Turkey.
2020-2021
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (2020-2021):
Dr. Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik, Western Languages and Literatures, Boğaziçi University, Negotiating Matrimony: Marriage, Divorce, Children and Property in Istanbul, 1750-1920
Dr. Sonia Seeman, Ethnomusicology and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas, Austin, Bread Money – Musical Movement: Turkish Roman (“Gypsy”) Life Stories
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT – DEPARTMENT OF STATE, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS FELLOWS (2020-2021):
Mr. Nader Atassi, Ottoman and Middle Eastern History, Columbia University, “Thinking Capital in Arabic: Classical Political Economy and its Afterlives in the Late Ottoman Empire”
Dr. Kate Dannies, Late Ottoman/Modern Middle East History, Miami University, “A Patriarchy without Men: Crisis, Survival, and Gender in the Ottoman First World War”
Ms. Rebecca Ella Biermann Gürbüz, Archaeology, University at Buffalo, Out of Africa and into Eurasia: A Functional Investigation of Acheulean Handaxes in Southeastern Anatolia
Ms. Ellis Garey, Ottoman and Middle East History, New York University, Becoming Workers: Labor Activism and Mass Politics in Greater Syria, 1880-1936
Dr. Nancy Micklewright, Art History, independent, Fashion and the Camera in the Late Ottoman Empire
Mr. Marshall Watson, Ottoman and African History, Yale University, Writing the Ottomans back into Africa: 19th Century Colonialism and a Sub-Saharan Resource Frontier
Mr. Zavier Wingham, History and Middle East Studies, New York University, Becoming “Zenci:” Formulating Race in the Ottoman Empire, 1840-1914
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.
ISTANBUL FRIENDS OF ARIT FELLOW (2020):
Ms. Ayşe Ercan, Christian and Byzantine Archaeology, Columbia University, Fashioning a Medieval Capital: The Topography and Archaeology of the Mangana Quarter in Constantinople (843-1453 C. E.)
Funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul.
JOHN FREELY FELLOW (2020):
Mr. Samet Budak, Middle East Studies, University of Michigan, A Mediterranean Ecumene: Intellectual Networks and Trends in Late-Medieval Eastern Mediterranean
Funded by the Friends of ARIT.
TONI M. CROSS – WILLIAM D. E. COULSON AEGEAN EXCHANGE FELLOWS (2020)
From Turkey:
Dr. Çiğdem Maner, Archaeology and History of Art, Koç University, Water Source Management of the Mycenaeans and the Hittites: Profane of Cult?
Ms. Elif Kevser Özer, History, Boğaziçi University, Apelasis, An Attempt to Map Memory and Belonging
From Greece:
Dr. Asterios-Evangelos Kechagias, Near Eastern Studies, Hebrew University, Greek Reception of Ancient Near Eastern Astral-Science and Medicine
ARIT and ASCSA 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.
GEORGE AND ILSE HANFMANN FELLOWS (2020):
George M. A. Hanfmann Fellows:
Ms. Özge Acar, Ancient Greek Language and Literature, Istanbul University, Greek Theatrical Performances in Asia Minor in the Principatus Era: Roman Perspective and Imperial Policies
Mr. Gencay Öztürk, Classical Archaeology, Ege University, Lydian Archaeo-Gemology in Light of Sardis Finds
Mr. Burak Sönmez, Archaeology, Süleyman Demirel University, Ceramic Production and Trade Relations in the Ancient City of Seleucia Sidera during the Roman Imperial Period
Ilse B. Hanfmann Fellow:
Dr. Orçun Erdoğan, Art History, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Settlement Pattern and Architecture of the Late Antique Villages in the Southern Anatolia
MACHTELD J. MELLINK FELLOW (2020):
Dr. Yadigar Doğan, Ancient Languages and Cultures, Akdeniz University, Contributions to Epigraphic Studies of the Milyas: The Inscriptions from Elmalı Museum
The Hanfmann and Mellink Fellowships are supported by the Merops Foundation in honor of George M. A. and Ilse B. Hanfmann and Machteld J. Mellink.
