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 (2021):
Mr. Onur Arslan, Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Davis, Terrorism Expertise and ‘Suspicious’ Signals: Remaking the War on Terror in Turkey
JOHN FREELY FELLOW (2021):
Ms. Sultan Toprak Oker, History, Ottoman, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Exploring Ottoman Istanbul: Archival Research and Computer Technologies
FRIENDS OF ARIT FELLOW (2021):
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 in honor of John Freely.
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.
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):
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
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 in honor of John Freely.
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 Fellow:
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 Fellows:
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 FELLOWS (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.
2019-2020
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (2019-2020):
Dr. Berin Gölönü, Art History/Visual Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo, People’s Parks (Millet Bahçeleri): Structuring Public Leisure Space in the Late Ottoman Empire
Dr. Melis Hafez, History of the Middle East, Virginia Commonwealth University, Moral Entrepeneurs: Cultural Politics and Moral Citizenship in Late Ottoman Society
Dr. Canay Özden-Schilling, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, Midstream Capitalism: an Ethnography of the Port of Mersin
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT – DEPARTMENT OF STATE, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS FELLOWS (2019-2020):
Dr. Joseph Alpar, Ethnomusicology, City University of New York, Singing Pirkei Avot in Istanbul: Performance and Transmission of a Para-liturgical Synagogue Repertoire
Dr. Cheryl Anderson, Archaeology, Boise State University, Ethnicity, Health, and Ritual Violence: A Bio-archaeological Examination of the Hellenistic Period at Kaman-Kalehöyük
Ms. Nur Yasemin Bavbek, Sociology, Brown University, Imperial/National Imaginations in Uncertain Times: American Empire in the Ottoman World
Mr. Nicholas Glastonbury, Cultural Anthropology, City University of New York, Sound and Fury: Soviet Broadcasting, Cassette Tapes, and the Cold War in Turkey
Mr. Erol Köymen, Ethnomusicology, University of Chicago, The Forgotten Modern: Sound, Space, and Kemalist Subjectivity in the Turkish Republic
Ms. Ellen M. Nye, History of the Middle East, Yale University, Frictions of Finance: Inter-imperial Credit Relations in Eighteenth-Century Izmir and Basra
Mr. Taylor C. Zajicek, History, Princeton University, Missiles and Anchovies: An Environmental History of the Cold War in the Black Sea Region, 1945-1995
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 (2019):
Mr. Ufuk Erol, Middle Eastern History, Indiana University, Neither Sunni nor Shi’i: The Formation of Qızılbash/Alevism in Anatolia, 1450s-1550s
Funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul.
FRIENDS OF ARIT FELLOW (2019):
Ms. İlkim Karakuş, Social Anthropology, Harvard University, Moral Economies of ‘Revolutionary’ Politics: Care, Ethics, and Resistance in an Urban Margin in Turkey
Funded by the Friends of ARIT.
JOHN FREELY FELLOW (2019):
Mr. Cevat Dargın, History of the Modern Middle East, Princeton University, Question within Questions: Seyit Rıza and Dersim as Part of Kurdish, Armenian and Alevi Questions in the Making of Modern Turkey from Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 to the Suppression of Dersim in 1937-1938
Funded by the Friends of ARIT in honor of Professor John Freely.
TONI M. CROSS – WILLIAM D. E. COULSON AEGEAN EXCHANGE FELLOWS (2019)
From Turkey:
Ms. Feyza Kalav İdrisoğlu, Political Science and Public Administration, Middle East Technical University, Religious Bureaucracies in the Context of Changing Religion-State Nexus: The Case of Turkey and Greece
Dr. Nihal Tüner Önen, Mediterranean Civilizations Research Institute, Akdeniz University, Phaselitai in the Aegean World
From Greece:
Dr. Dimitra Andrianou, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Thracians outside Thrace: Funerary Reliefs from the Strymon Valley and Kyzikos
Ms. Alexandra Courcoula, History of Art and Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Benaki Collection c. 1920- 1940: Negotiating History, Heritage, and Identity in Interwar Greece
Dr. Theodore Ganetsos, Material Analysis and Research, University of West Attica, Applications of in-situ non-destructive techniques regarding documentation, identification of pigments and precious stones, authentication and the promotion of our cultural heritage
Dr. Panagiotis Kontolaimos, Architecture, From Late Medieval Castles to Early Modern Towns: Ottoman Urbanism in Thrace. The Cases of Gelibolu and Uzunköprü
Dr. Georgios Theotokis, History, University of Athens, Diffusion of Military Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century Ottoman Empire – the Case of Esirî Hasan Ağa’s ‘Advice to the Commanders and Soldiers’
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 2019)
U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Advanced Language Fellows, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul:
| Sabeen Ahmed | Vanderbilt University |
| John Al-Haddad | University of Chicago |
| Reilly Barry | Georgetown University |
| Grace Bertsch | Indiana University, Bloomington |
| Erik Blackthorne-O’Barr | Columbia University |
| Efil Çelik | American University |
| Rebecca Clendenen | University of Illinois, Chicago |
| Spencer Cook | Georgetown University |
| Evan Gage | University of Notre Dame |
| Aram Ghoogasian | University of Chicago |
| Elizabeth Howell | Northwestern University |
| Joseph King | University of California, Berkeley |
| Michelle Lynch | Middle East Technical University |
| John Perugini | University of Arizona |
| Simone Salmon | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Lediona Shahollari | University of Michigan |
| John Stewart | Indiana University, Bloomington |
| Mina Turunc | Vassar College |
| Madeline Undis | Smith College |
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.
ARIT TURKISH FELLOWS (2019):
Ms. Pınar Akdeniz, Political Science, Bilkent University, Differentiation of Faiths: Strategies of Intra-Group and Inter-Group Boundary Maintenance among Alevis in Turkey
Mr. Varlık İndere, Prehistory, Istanbul University, Settlement Abandonment: the Case of Aşıklı Höyük
Ms. Ilgın Külekçi, History of Architecture, Istanbul Technical University, Larisa (Buruncuk): the Characteristics of the Ancient Settlement
Ms. Hatice Ozer, Sociology, Mimar Sinan University, The Decentralization of Medicines: the Class and Location Based Practice of Doctors’ Prescription Writing
Ms. Çilem Sönmez-Sözer, Anthropology, Ankara University, A Comparative Dental Micro Wear in Different Ancient Societies
ARIT Turkish fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul and Ankara, and the American Research Institute in Turkey.
GEORGE AND ILSE HANFMANN FELLOWS (2019):
George M. A. Hanfmann Fellow:
Ms. Bihter Esener, Art History, Koç University, A Reflection of One’s Own: Seljuk-Period Mirrors in Medieval Anatolia (1081-1308)
Ms. Sevilay Zeynep Yıldız, Archaeology, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Southwestern Anatolia in the 2nd Millennium BC: East-West Relations
Ilse B. Hanfmann Fellows:
Ms. Elif Sezer Aydınlı, History, İstanbul Şehir University, Transformation of Ottoman Literacy: Reader Notes on the Manuscripts of Popular Stories in 18th and Early 19th Centuries
Mr. Ali Metin Büyükkarakaya, Anthropology, Hacettepe University, Bioarchaeological Investigations on the Human Skeletal Remains at Karataş-Semayük
MACHTELD J. MELLINK FELLOWS (2019):
Mr. İnan Aydoğan, Prehistory, Ege University, Investigations from Socioeconomic and Cultural Perspectives of Late Uruk Finds from Başur Höyük
Mr. Tolga Pelvanoğlu, Ancient Cultures Program, Istanbul University, Princes in the Hittite State Organization
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.
2018-2019
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (2018-2019)
Dr. Rebecca A. Clothey, Education, Drexel University, Uyghur Language and Cultural Transmission in Turkey
Dr. Ann E. Killebrew, Archaeology, Pennsylvania State University, The Bay of Iskenderun Landscape Archaeology and Survey Project: Final Publication
Dr. Mali Skotheim, Classics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Post-Classical Performance: Greek Drama in the Hellenistic and Roman Era
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT – DEPARTMENT OF STATE, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS FELLOWS (2018-2019)
Ms. Chloe L. Bordewich, Modern Middle Eastern History, Harvard University, Empires of Suspicion: Ottoman Arab Informants and the First World War
Mr. W. Sasson Chahanovich, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, The Ottoman Apocalyptic Mentality and the Dark Side of Sufism (15th-17th Centuries): Pseudo-Ibnal-‘Arabi’s The Tree of Nu’man (al-Shajarah al-nu’maniyyah), The Cry of the Owl (Sayhat al bum), and their Commentaries
Mr. Micah Hughes, Religious Studies and Islamic Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Time and Tradition: Reconfiguring Religion in the Republic of Turkey, 1923-1979
Ms. Sarah K. Yeomans, Art History, University of Southern California, Roman Civic Medicine in Allianoi and Rhodiapolis: The Archaeology of Practices and Practitioners in the Imperial Age
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 (2018):
Mr. Asıl Yaman, Archaeology, Muğla Sitki Koçman University, Late Roman Pottery of Arycanda
Mr. Akif Yerlioğlu, History, Middle East Studies, Harvard University, Paracelsus Goes East: Ottoman Medicine in the Early Modern Period
Funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul.
JOHN FREELY FELLOW (2018):
Ms. Choon Hwee Koh, History, Yale University, Outsourcing Empire: Contracting out the Ottoman Postal System, 1690-1840
Funded by the Friends of ARIT in honor of Professor John Freely.
TONI M. CROSS – WILLIAM D. E. COULSON AEGEAN EXCHANGE FELLOWS (2018)
From Turkey:
Ms. Merve Sarılar Özdemir, Ancient History, Istanbul University, Thyateira – A Border Town in Northern Lydia: History and Coins
Dr. Elif Bayraktar Tellan, History Department, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Church, State, and Local Powers in the Eighteen-Century Ottoman Empire
Dr. Elif Ünlü, History Department, Boğaziçi University, Consuming in Style: Social Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages in the Aegean and their Integration into the Ideological Discourse during the Third Millennium B.C.E.
ARIT and ASCSA Aegean Exchange fellowships are funded by the Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and cosponsored with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
ARIT SUMMER FELLOWS IN INTENSIVE TURKISH LANGUAGE (Summer 2018)
U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Advanced Language Fellows, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul:
| Dominic Balestrieri-Fox | Northwestern University |
| Xhesika Bardhi | University of Chicago |
| Jordan Cannon | Columbia University |
| Danielle E. Doubt | Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies |
| Sarah Gerges | University of Michigan |
| Matthew Hernandez | Indiana University |
| Katie McClelland | McGill University |
| Nicholas Norberg | Harvard University |
| Emily Peterson | Brigham Young University |
| Jake Sullivan | University of Texas, Austin |
| Miranda Wickham | George Washington University |
| Zavier Wingham | New York 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 (2018)
George M. A. Hanfmann Fellow:
Ms. Sera Yelözer Kılıç, Istanbul University, Prehistoric Archaeology, Detecting Individual and Collective Identities: Gender, Age, Craftmanship, and the Intersectionality of Identities at Aşıklı Höyük
Mr. Hüseyin Uzunoğlu, Ancient Languages and Cultures, Akdeniz University, Akmonia in Antiquity: Ancient Testimony, History and Its New Inscriptions
Ilse B. Hanfmann Fellows:
Mr. İbrahim Ethem Koçak, Archaeology Department, Ankara University, The Evaluation, Dating and Cataloging of the Garlands Decorating Architectural Blocks on Façade Architecture of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods in Anatolia
Ms. Güzel Öztürk, Archaeology Department, Ankara University, The Analysis and Artistic-Functional Properties of Kültepe Sealing Practices, 2500-2000 BC
MACHTELD J. MELLINK FELLOWS (2018):
Ms. Müge Bulu Akar, Archaeology and History of Art, Koç University, Technological, Functional, and Stylistic Analysis of Syro-Cilician Ware from the Amuq Valley
Ms. Aysel Arslan, Archaeology and History of Art, Koç University, Shaping Clay, Transmission of Knowledge: Division of Labor in the 7th and 6th Millennia in Western Anatolia
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 (2018):
Ms. Elif Sezer Aydınlı, History, Istanbul Şehir University, The Culture of Reading and Writing in 17th Century Istanbul
Mr. Ümit Gündoğan, Archaeology, Ankara University, Discoveries at Bakla Tepe of the First Half of the 3rd Century BC, Western Anatolian Coastal Architecture and Settlement Models
Ms. Zeynep Küçükceran, History, Boğaziçi University, The Change in Agricultural Knowledge from the Beginning of the 19th Century through the First Decades of the 20th Century in Bursa and Mihaliç
Ms. Bilge Bahar Türkaslan, Art History, Hacettepe University, The Inner Castle and City Defense System at Trabzon
ARIT Turkish fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul and the American Research Institute in Turkey.
2017-2018
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (2017-2018):
Dr. Emine Evered, History, Michigan State University, The Rise and Fall of Prohibition in Modern Turkey, A History of Alcohol, Identity, Islam, and Public Health
Dr. Amanda H. Phillips, Art History, Ottoman Art and Material Culture, University of Virginia, Between the Seas: Ottoman Textiles in the Eighteenth Century
Dr. Patrick Scharfe, History, Ohio State University, An Islamic Public Sphere: Muslim Scholars and Dissent in Late Ottoman Egypt, 1801-1841
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT – DEPARTMENT OF STATE, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS FELLOWS (2017-2018):
Dr. H. Erdem Çıpa, History and Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, Popular Uprisings in Pre-Modern Ottoman Lands
Ms. Gwendolyn Collaço, Art History, Harvard University, From Single Figures to Geographies of Beauties: Ottoman Costume Albums of Bazaar Artists and their Cultural Translations, 17th-18th C.
Dr. Aimee Genell, History, Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, International Law and the Legal Legacy of the Ottoman Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1876-1930
Mr. Michael B. Sims, History, University of Washington, ‘Without a Purpose, Misfortune Will Befall Our Land:’ Discourses of Nation in Late Ottoman Kurdistan
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 (2017):
Mr. Mehmet F. Tatari, Anthropology, University of California, Davis, Farmer Organizing in Northeastern Turkey: Making Cheese and Reimagining Borders
Funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul in honor of Professor John Freely.
TONI M. CROSS – WILLIAM D. E. COULSON AEGEAN EXCHANGE FELLOWS (2017)
From Turkey:
Dr. Elif Koparal, Archaeology, Hitit University at Çorum, Ritual Landscapes and Identities: Assessing the New Evidence from Urla-Çeşme Peninsula Survey
Dr. Vasıf Şahoğlu, Archaeology, Ankara University, Minoan Impact on the Urla Peninsula during the First Half of the 2nd Millennium B.C.
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 2017)
U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Advanced Language Fellows, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul:
| Can Artunkal | University of Pennsylvania |
| Claire Baytas | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Chloe Bordewich | Harvard University |
| Bianca Brown | University of Pennsylvania |
| Thadeus Dowad | University of California, Berkeley |
| Michelle Dromgold-Sermen | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Maithili Jais | University of Florida |
| Matthew Liberti | University of Michigan |
| Isabelle McRae | Portland State University |
| Fatima Alev Mohie-Eldin | New York University |
| Laura E. Neumann | Sabanci University |
| Imogen Page | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
| Adelheid Rundholz | Johnson C. Smith University |
| Dean Schafer | City University of New York |
| Abigail Schoenfeld | Columbia University |
| Aidan Underhill | George Washington 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 (2017)
George M. A. Hanfmann Fellows:
Mr. Durmuş Ersun, Classical Archaeology, The Anatolian Development of Sculptures in Toga
Ms. Özgün Kasar, Archaeology, Muğla University, Metalwork from Dascyleum
Dr. Mustafa Nuri Tatbul, Settlement Archaeology, Middle East Technical University, Changing Dynamics in the Middle Byzantine Komana Pontica, Central Back Sea
Ilse B. Hanfmann Fellows:
Ms. Fatma Coşkuner, Archaeology, Koç University, Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900). Art and Material Culture in the Construction of National and Social Identity
Ms. Gizem Dörter, Archaeology, Koç University, Unpublished and Unregistered Late-Medieval/Ottoman Period Fortress of the Upper Bosphorus: The Upper Rumeli Kavak Fortress
MACHTELD J. MELLINK FELLOWS (2017):
Dr. Gonca Dardeniz, Archaeology, Koç University, Crossing Cultural and Technological Borders in the Near East: Vitreous Materials, Protechnical Installations, and Integrated Technologies during the 2nd and Early 1st Millennium B.C.
Dr. Hüseyin Yaman, Archaeology, Çanakkale University, Tenedos in Aegean Cultural Interactions: The Necropolis Finds
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 (2017):
Ms. Özlem Çakar Kılıç, Çanakkale 18 March University, Archeology, Early Bronze Age Settlement Patterns in the Middle Porsuk Basin: Social, Economic and Cultural Processes
Ms. Turkan Banu Güler, Ankara University, Ancient History, The Use of Foreign Adjudicators in the Aegean Region in the Hellenistic Period
Ms. Ayşegül Damla Gürkan-Anar, Boğaziçi University, Art History/History, Istanbul and Isfahan in the Early 17th Centuries: the Masjed-Shah and the Sultan Ahmed Complexes
Ms. Çiğdem Oğuz, Boğaziçi University, modern Turkish history, Social, Political and Intellectual Responses to the ‘Morality Crisis’ on the Ottoman Home Front during the First World War
ARIT Turkish fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul and the American Research Institute in Turkey.
2016-2017
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (2016-2017):
Dr. Faiz Ahmed, Modern Middle East History, Brown University, America in the Ottoman Gaze: The Sublime Porte, the United States, and Early Muslim Communities in North America, c. 1730-1923
Dr. Zeynep Korkman, Gender and Women’s Studies, The University of Arizona, Gendered Fortunes: Feelings, Labors, and Publics of Divination in Post-secular Turkey
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT – DEPARTMENT OF STATE, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS FELLOWS (2016-2017):
Mr. Matthew Ghazarian, Ottoman History, Columbia University, Famine in a Time of Uncertainty: Food Aid and Sectarianism in Turkey, 1856-1893
Mr. Joseph Lombardo, Comparative Politics, The New School for Social Research, In the ‘Kingdom of Dams’: The Politics of Scale and the Keban Project, 1962-1975
Dr. John Marston, Archaeology, Boston University, Empire and Environment in Late Bronze and Iron Age Anatolia
Mr. Jonathan McCollum, History, University of California at Los Angeles, Ottomanism at War: Citizenship, Nationalism, and Minorities in the Ottoman Empire, 1911-1912
Mr. Jeffrey Wall, Ethnobotany, Cornell University, Folk Valuation of Chestnut Diversity in Turkey: An Inquiry into the Maintenance of Diversity of an Historically Valuable Tree Species
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 FELLOWS (2016):
Mr. Orçun Okan, History, Columbia University, Coping with Transitions: The Connected Construction of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq (1918-1928)
Funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul in honor of Professor John Freely.
TONI M. CROSS – WILLIAM D. E. COULSON AEGEAN EXCHANGE FELLOWS (2016)
From Turkey:
Dr. Fahri Dikkaya, History Department, Bilkent University, Ottoman Pottery between Local and Imperial Tastes
From Greece:
Dr. Stella Souvatzi, School of Humanities, Hellenic Open University, Neolithic Sites in Greece and Turkey and the Politics of Space and Identity
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 2016)
U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Advanced Language Fellows, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul:
| Kaleb Adney | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Ahmad Aminpour | University of Texas, Austin |
| Clare Busch | New York University |
| Samantha Hoffman | University of Chicago |
| Allison Kanner | University of Chicago |
| Brenna Knippen | College of Charleston |
| Maria Lachenauer | University of Chicago |
| Miles Lewis | Columbia University |
| Fredrick Lorenz | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Alyssa Mathias | University of California, Los Angeles |
| James Paige | Boston University |
| Elizabeth Pertner | George Washington University |
| Noah Ringler | American University |
| Elyse Semerdjian | Whitman College |
| Britt Van Paepeghem | University of Minnesota |
| George Vourderis | Georgetown University |
| Emma Walker-Silverman | Stanford University |
| Erin West | Brown 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 (2016)
George M. A. Hanfmann Fellow:
Dr. Sultan Deniz Küçüker, Political Science, Ankara University, The Structure of the Ionian Koinon in the Archaic and Classical Periods
Ilse B. Hanfmann Fellow:
Ms. İpek Dağlı Dinçer, Classical Archaeology and History of Art, Koç University and Istanbul University, Cults and Religious Life in Pamphylia from the Archaic to the Late Antique Period
MACHTELD J. MELLINK FELLOWS (2016):
Mr. Orkun Hamza Kaycı, Prehistory, Istanbul University, Prehistoric Cilicia: New Research and Relations with Surrounding Regions
Ms. Yasemin Özarslan, Archaeology and History of Art, Koç University, Landscape Organization and Social Interaction in Iron Age Anatolia: Three Case Studies from Phyrgia
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 (2016):
Mr. Ozan Eren , Sociology, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Protest Music in Turkey: the Case of the Kardeş Türküler (Turkish multi-ethnic music group The Songs of Fraternity)
Ms. Sinem Erdoğan İşkorkutan, History, Boğaziçi University, Festivity and Representation in the Early Eighteenth Century: The Imperial Festival of 1720 and its Illustrated Surnames (Imperial Festival Books)
Mr. Hakan Mutlu, Anthropology, Ankara University, A Comparison of the Humerus and Femur Variations in East Roman and Byzantine Milas-Belentepe and Anatolian Societies
Mr. Umut Parlıtı, Archaeology, Erzurum Atatürk University, Burial Customs and Tomb Types of the East Anatolia Region in the 3rd Millennium B.C.
ARIT Turkish fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul and the American Research Institute in Turkey.
2015-2016
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (2015 – 2016):
Dr. Melis Hafez, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University, The Lazy, the Idle, the Industrious: The Culture of Productivity in Late Ottoman Society 1830-1922
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT – DEPARTMENT OF STATE, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS FELLOWS (2015 – 2016):
Mr. Harun Buljina, Balkan and Ottoman History, Columbia University, The Ends of Empire: Ethno-Religious Conflict and Cooperation in the Late and Post Ottoman Balkans 1878-1921
Ms. Pauline Lucy Lewis, Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles, The Social and Cultural Effects of Telegraphy in the Ottoman Empire-1855-1918
Ms. Kathryn Marklein, Biological Anthropology and Bioarchaeology, Ohio State University, Ave Imperium, mortui te salutamus: Redefining Roman Imperialism through Biocultural and Bioarchaological Perspectives of Liminal Populations
Dr. Ranin Kazemi, Middle East, North Africa, Ottoman, Iran history, Kansas State University, Famine in the Middle East: Environment, Market, State and Society 1700-1918
Mr. Henry R. Shapiro, Department of History, Princeton University, The Great Armenian Flight: Ottoman Armenian History and Historiography of the Reign of Sultan Ahmed I (1603-1617)
Ms. Margaret Anne Shortle, History of Art and Architecture, Boston University, Illustrated Divans of Hafiz in the Topkapı Palace Library
Dr. Peter J. Stone, Ancient Mediterranean History and Archaeology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Between Tarsus and the Tetrapolis: The Hellenistic Pottery from Kinet Höyük
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 FELLOWS (2015):
Ms. Müge Durusu Tanrıöver, Archaeology, Brown University, Between Arzawa and Hattuša: Locating the Second Millennium BCE Material Culture from the Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Research Project
Ms. Ekin Kurtiç, Middle Eastern Studies and Social Anthropology, Harvard University, Remaking a River Basin: Green Economy, Ecology and Politics in Turkey
Funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul in honor of Professor John Freely.
TONI M. CROSS – WILLIAM D. E. COULSON AEGEAN EXCHANGE FELLOWS (2015)
From Turkey:
Ms. Melis Cankara, History and Theory of Architecture, Yıldız Technical University, An Unusual Blend and a Bitter Complication: Muslims and Christians Exchanging Houses in Rethymno after the Treaty Lausanne
Dr. Nesibe Özgül Turgay, Music and Art of Performance, Yıldız Technical University, The Analysis of Form, Mode and Technique in the Repertory of Tabakhaniotika
Ms. Çilem Yavşan, Archaeology Department, Çanakkale Onsekizmart University, The Bone Tool Industry at the Late Sixth/Early Fifth Millennium BC Settlement at Smintheion in the Troad: A Typological, Technological and Functional Approach
From Greece:
Ms. Eleni Mentesidou, Archaeology, Democritus University of Thrace, Religion and Rituals in the Greek Cities of the South Coast of the Black Sea during the Hellenistic Period
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 2015)
U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Advanced Language Fellows, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul:
| Joanna Birkner | Bryn Mawr College |
| Daniella Leah Farah | Stanford University |
| Alexandra Frankel | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee |
| Daniel Grafton | University of Washington |
| Dilara Hatipoğlu | Washington University, St. Louis |
| Varak Ketsamanian | University of Chicago |
| Erol Kōymen | Vanderbilt University |
| Ethan LaFrance | University of Pennsylvania |
| Noga Malkin | Georgetown University |
| Kerith Miller | University of Arizona |
| Andrew Nitz | University of Pittsburgh |
| Eileen Sleesman | University of Washington |
| Rachel Wigen-Toccalino | University of Kansas |
| Ella Wind | New York University |
| Daniel Woods | Georgetown University |
| Peter Young | University of Pennsylvania |
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 (2015)
George M. A. Hanfmann Fellows:
Dr. Erman Gören, Ancient Languages and Cultures, Ancient Greek, Istanbul University, The Divine Names in Corpus Dionysiacum as the Mirrors of Being: The Dispositives for Seeing the Unseen
Ilse B. Hanfmann Fellow:
Ms. Sabiha Göloğlu, Archaeology and History of Art, Koç University, Nineteenth Century Representations of the Islam Pilgrimage Sites in Europe and Ottoman Empire
MACHTELD J. MELLINK FELLOWS (2015):
Ms .Melis Uzdurum, Prehistoric Archaeology, Istanbul University, The Production and Consumption of Mudbrick at Aşıklı: Interconnections between Raw Materials, Technology and Social Life
Ms. Mine Lütfiye Durur, Anthropology, Hacettepe University, The Death Rituals of the Acemhöyük Population
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 (2015):
Ms. Zeynep Altok, History Department, Boğaziçi University, Sixteenth-Century Biographies of Poets and Ottoman Elite Identity
Mr. Uygar Aydemir, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Sabancı University, Between Constitution and Autocracy: Public Discontent in the Ottoman Empire Preceding the First Parliamentary Experiment of 1876-1878
Ms. Ebru Sönmez, History Department, Bilkent University, Envisioning Hussein the Martyr and Karbala in the Cultural Memory of Early Modern Ottoman Muslim Society
Ms. Firuzan Melike Sümertaş, History Department, Boğaziçi University, The Role of the Greek Orthodox Community in the Transformation of the Urban Structure of 19th Century Istanbul
ARIT Turkish fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul and the American Research Institute in Turkey.
