2024-2025
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (2024-2025):
Dr. Uğur Peçe, Ottoman History, Lehigh University, Breaking the Silence: Soundscapes of Revolution in the Ottoman Empire
Dr. Nazif Shahrani, Anthropology, Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, Khirgiz Refugees of the Afghan Pamirs in Turkey: From Stone Age to Post-Modernity in Four Decades
Dr. Christopher Whitehead, History, Ohio State University, Rebellion, Reform, and Taxation in the 17th Century Ottoman Empire: The Struggles of the Imperial Household Cavalry
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT – DEPARTMENT OF STATE, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS FELLOWS (2024-2025):
Dr. Dilyara Agisheva, Legal History, Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto, Law Across Borders: Ottoman Influence on the Crimean Khanate in the Early Eighteenth Century
Ms. Jordan Cannon, History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, Forged by Fire: Social, Political, and Architectural Transformations in Early Modern Istanbul (1509-1826)
Ms. Ashley Cercone, Archaeology, University at Buffalo, Pottery Traditions in Inland Western Anatolia
Dr. Jessie Clark, Geography, University of Nevada, Reno, Youth Geographies of Faith, Fatalism, and Future in Türkiye’s Kurdish East
Mr. Nathanial Moses, History, Harvard University, Overflow: State, Subject, and Ecology in Late Ottoman Iraq, 1869-1917
Ms. Maryam Patton, Late Medieval and Early Modern Ottoman History, Harvard University, Hermes on the Horizon: Ottoman Intellectual History and the Global Renaissance
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 (2024-2025)
EVAN and LEMAN FOTOS FELLOW:
Ms. Yosra Ali Ahmed Hussein, Middle Eastern History, Columbia University, Ordinary People’s Justice: Narrating Ottoman Egypt from the South (1700-1840)
JOHN FREELY FELLOW:
Ms. Farah Bazzi, Global History, Stanford University, The Alluring Aesthetic of Andalusī Nature: Transplanting al-Andalus across the Iberian, Moroccan, and Ottoman Early Modern Worlds
FRIENDS OF ARIT FELLOW:
Dr. Bürge Abiral, Anthropology, Ohio State University, Sedimentation of Crises: Alternative Food Networks, Food Inflation, and Trust in 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 (2024)
Turkey:
Dr. Stefo Benlisoy, Humanities and Social Sciences, Istanbul Technical University, Workers of Istanbul Unite! A Socialist Workers Organization in the Late Ottoman Capital 1909-1922
Ms. Naz Defne Kut, Art History, Koç University, Print and Propaganda: The Cretan War in Venetian Engravings in Greece
Ms. Gizem Güner, Architectural History, Middle East Technical University, Demeter’s Legacy Unveiled: Architectural Continuity and Ritual Metamorphosis from Greece to Hellenistic Western Asia Minor
Greece:
Dr. Efthymia Kanner, Turkish Studies and Modern Asian Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Non-Muslim Activism and Social Movements in Turkey (1960-2002)
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 2024)
U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Advanced Language Fellows, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul:
| Nargiz Abduli | California State University, Sacramento |
| Defne Aybar | Georgetown University |
| Connor Cox | University of Texas, Austin |
| Wesley Doucette | City University of New York |
| Flynn Gray | American University |
| Aslam Kakar | Rutgers University |
| Madjdy Kassem | New York University |
| Ryan Mitchell | Temple University |
| Seth Myers | Harvard University |
| Joanna Newcome | Georgetown University |
| Nitisha Ponnappan | New York University |
| Emma Power | Trinity University |
| Sean Silvia | Princeton University |
| Emily Tummons | University of Kansas |
| Sasha Ward | University of Washington |
| Hasan Yazan | University of Maryland |
| Sinan Yucel | Georgetown 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 (2024)
GEORGE M. A. HANFMANN FELLOW:
Mr. İnan Kopçuk, Archaeology, Ankara University, Roman Fine Ware Ceramics from Aspendos: A Diachronic Analysis within the Framework of Material Culture, Pottery Network and Production Issues
ILSE B. HANFMANN FELLOW:
Ms. Fatma Nihal Köseoğlu, Art and Archaeology, Istanbul University, Funerary Portraiture Tradition in the Roman East: A Study on Art, Death and Identity through Palmyrene Loculus Reliefs in Istanbul Archaeological Museums
MACHTELD J. MELLINK FELLOWS:
Ms. Gamze Karakaş Çakan, Archaeology and History of Art, Istanbul University, The Development of Livestock Activities in the Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic Periods in Central Anatolia: A Zooarchaeological Study on Animal Husbandry at Tepecik-Çiftlik Höyük
Mr. Devrim Sönmez, Archaeology and History of Art, Koç University, Survey Project at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe and Its Vicinity: Interactions Between the Landscape and People who Built the Earliest Monumental Architecture
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 (2024):
Ms. Munire Rumeysa Çakan, Architecture, Kocaeli University, Journey to the Memory of Rural Settlements: Space and People in Taşlıca
Ms. Doğuş Coşar Güler, Archaeology, Mimar Sinan University, Peraias (mainland territories of island polities) of the North Aegean and Western Anatolia in Antiquity
Mr. Mustafa Sayan, Conservation, İstanbul Technical University, A Proposed of Methodology to Preserve Istanbul’s Land Walls as Historial Documents
Mr. Barış Can Sever, Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Migratory Movements as a Multifaceted Process under the Impacts of Climate Crisis: The Case of the Central Anatolian Agricultural Basin, Cihanbeyli/Konya/Türkiye
Ms. Halet Uluant, Art History, İstanbul Technical University, An Illustrated Manuscript from the Late Ottoman Period
ARIT Turkish fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul and the American Research Institute in Turkey.
2023-2024
ARIT – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ADVANCED RESEARCH FELLOWS (2023-2024):
Dr. Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, Turkish and Ottoman History, William and Mary, Alevi-Bektashi Digital Archive Regional Pilot Project
Dr. Catherine Scott, Archaeology, Koç Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Accessing Anatolian Archaeology: Planning an Online Digital and Spatial Database for the Kaymakçı Archaeological Project
ARIT-NEH Fellowships are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ARIT – DEPARTMENT OF STATE, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS FELLOWS (2023-2024):
Dr. Osama Eshera, Islamic Studies, History of Philosophy and Science, McGill University, The Transmission of Avicenna’s Najat from the Ayyubid Court to Ottoman Lands: MS Istanbul, Murad Molla 1410
Mr. Aram Ghoogasian, Near Eastern Studies, History, Princeton University, The Second Printing Revolution: How the Industrialization of Print Transformed a Diasporic Culture
Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Global Studies, Middle Eastern History, University of California Santa Barbara, Global Hijra: Muslim Refugee Migration since 1850
Ms. Sarah Molina, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, The Poetics of Space: How Safavid Carpets Shaped the Early Modern Islamic World (1539-1671)
Dr. Brian Silverstein, Cultural Anthropology, University of Arizona, The Production and Economization of Quality in Turkish Olive Oil
Ms. Audrey Wozniak, Ethnomusicology, Harvard University, A Discipline for the Nation: Turkish Classical Music Choirs in History and Practice
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 (2023-2024)
EVAN and LEMAN FOTOS FELLOW:
Ms. Ruşen Bingül, Cultural Anthropology, Emory University, Negotiating Kurdishness: Gender, Justice, and Dispute Resolution in Southeastern Turkey
JOHN FREELY FELLOW:
Dr. Maria Choleva, Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies, Making an Artisan for the Potter’s Wheel in the Prehistoric Aegean
FRIENDS OF ARIT FELLOW:
Ms. Cağla Ay, Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Rethinking the Agrarian Question through Multispecies Lens: The Case of Finike Oranges
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 (2023)
Turkey:
Dr. Görkem Kökdemir, Ankara University, Classical Archaeology, Cult of Zeus Sosipolis in Magnesia on the Meander and the Architecture of Hellenistic Temples
Dr. Nuray Ocaklı, History, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Cultural Heritages of Kastoria and Their Endowment Properties: Monastery of St. Anargyron, Monastery of Panagia Mavriotissa, Monastery of St. Nicholas Ispilio, Zaharia Church, and the Other Churches
Greece:
Ms. Paraskevi Dandali, History, University of Crete, Janissaries in Salonica (18th-early 19th Centuries)
Dr. Panagiotis Kontolaimos, History, From Late Medieval castles to Early Modern towns: Ottoman Urbanism in
Thrace. The cases of Gelibolu and Uzunkopru
Mr. Thanasis Sotiriou, History, University of Crete, Production, Consumption, and Trade of Wine in Byzantine Central Anatolia
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 2023)
U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Advanced Language Fellows, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul:
| Evan Alterman | Stanford University |
| Madison Gearin | Georgetown University |
| Samantha Goodrich | University of Arizona |
| Lily Hindy | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Tobin Jamie Johnson | University of Maryland |
| Claire Miller | Indiana University, Bloomington |
| Matthew Miloszar | University of Pittsburgh |
| Ameen Omar | Princeton University |
| Reem Shaikh | University of Texas, Austin |
| Daniel Stewart | Georgetown University |
| Sophia Zervas | Harvard 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 (2023)
GEORGE M. A. HANFMANN FELLOWS:
Ms. Feyza Daloğlu, Architectural History, Middle East Technical University, A Port Town from Scratch: The Interwoven Urban Landscape of Late 19th Century Iskenderun
Dr. Hazar Kaba, Department of Archaeology, Sinop University, At the Periphery or Within? Contextualising the Late Classical-Early Hellenistic Houses of Sinope within Greek Domestic Architecture
ILSE B. HANFMANN FELLOW:
Mr. Kemal Koçaklı, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University, Modeling the Soil Erosion With the Help of Geographical Information Systems Under Changing Climatic Conditions and Land Use Systems in Delice Basin (Çorum) During the Early and Middle Holocene (ca. 12,000-4200 cal. BP)”
Dr. Ezgin Yetiş, Art Conservation and Restoration, Kastamonu University, Investigations of Painting Techniques and Organic Materials on Wall Paintings Found in Some Ottoman Mosques in Edirne-Turkey
MACHTELD J. MELLINK FELLOWS:
Ms. Ayça Deniz Çınar, Archaeology, Çanakkale 18 Mart University, Early Bronze IV- Middle Bronze II Stone Objects from Tell Atchana and Toprakhisar Höyük: The Role and Significance of Stone Production Technology in Center and Periphery Relations
Ms. Filiz Dolğun, Archaeology, İzmir 9 Eylül University, Analysis of Pottery and Find Spots at Early Bronze Age IVB Tayinat Höyük
Ms. Fatma Kalkan, Archaeology and History of Art, Koç University, Scrutinizing Past Human Activities via Sediment Geochemical and Phytolith Analyses in Central Anatolian Early Neolithic Communities: Spatial Use and Plant-Human Interaction in Micro-Scale
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 (2023):
Mr. İbrahim Arcagök, Archaeology, Bursa Uludağ University, The Origin of the Soa / Altıntaş Grave Stelai
Mr. Cumali Çatak, Anthropology, Ankara University, A Comparison of the Measurements of Human Dry Mandibles Using Panoramic X-ray with Predictive Modeling of Age and Gender Estimated with Machine Learning
Mr. Burhan Göz, Archaeology, Istanbul University, The Human – Environment Interaction in Anatolia’s Neolithicization Process
Mr. Berksan Gülsoy, History, Marmara University, Türkiye-Spain Relations (1923-1960)
Ms. Bahar Ayça Okçuoğlu, Sociology, Koç University, Identity Transformation and Transnational Solidarity in the Context of “Dual Diasporas”: Syrian Circassians in Turkey
ARIT Turkish fellowships are funded by the Friends of ARIT, Istanbul and the American Research Institute in Turkey.
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:
Dr. 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, 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
Dr. Andrea Gatzke, History, State University of New York, New Paltz, The Inscribed City: Written Space, Bilingualism, and Group Membership in Roman Anatolia
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, 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 Foundatiosin honor of George M. A. and Ilse B. Hanfmann and Machteld J. Mellink.
