2008-2009
Seniors
Asa Eger , Independent scholar
Excavation on the Islamic-Byzantine Frontier: the frontier fort of Hisn al-Tīnāt
Canan Çakırlar , Tuebingen University, Germany
The contribution of historical zooarchaeology to understanding acculturation, subsistence and environment in Anatolia: The case study from Kinet Höyük’s Late Iron Age, Persian, Hellenistic and Medieval layers
Dror Zeevi, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Fractal Theory and Ottoman Socio-Political Conglomerates
Giancarlo Casale – Spring 2009 , University of Minnesota, USA
Curiosity and Intolerance in Muslim-Christian Relations: The Ottoman Case
Ivana Jevtic, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Reconstructing the Genesis of the Palaeologan art: the testimony of Byzantine Monuments of Istanbul
M.Sait Özervarlı, İSAM (Research member), Türkiye
Tradition and Modernization in Late Ottoman/Turkish Intellectual History
Markus Dressler – Fall 2008 , Hofstra University, USA
From “Crypto-Christianity” to “Turkish Islam”: The Discovery of the Alevis in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries
Meltem Toksöz, Boğaziçi University, Türkiye
Historians, Intellectuals and Academics: History Writing and History Education in the Late Ottoman Empire
Necati Alkan , Hebrew University, Israel
The Nusayri ‘Alawis in the Late Ottoman Empire
Nino Kavtaria, National Center of Manuscripts, Georgia
Constantinopolitan School of the Book Art and its impact on the Georgian miniature painting from the Black Mountain of the 11th century
Polyvios Konis – Spring 2009, University of Birmingham, UK
From Constantinople to Cappadocia: The Association between centre and periphery in Byzantine art
Rossitsa Gradeva – Fall 2008 , Institute of Balkan Studies, Bulgaria
Ottoman Policy with Respect to Non-Muslims’ Cult Buildings, end of 17th-beginning of 18th centuries
Juniors
Alyson Wharton, SOAS, University of London, UK
Building in the Tanzimat
Amanda Flaata, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Sanctuaries of Meter in the Aegean World
Amanda Phillips, Oxford University, UK
The Consumption of Luxury and Quasi-luxury Textiles in the 17th century Ottoman Empire
Ayşe Henry, University of Illinois, USA
The Pilgrimage Center of St. Symeon the Younger: Designed by angels, supervised by a saint, constructed by pilgrims
Candace Weddle, University of Southern California, USA
Making Sense of Emperor Worship: The Sensory Experience of Cult in Late Antique Asia Minor
Felipe Rojas, University of California, USA
Memory, Identity and Order in the Lydian Landscape
Fulya Özkan, SUNY Binghamton, USA
The Construction of Roads in the Late Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire: An Arena of Social Conflict
Kahraman Şakul, Georgetown University, USA
Ottoman Perceptions of Russia in the Age of Napoleon
Leyla Kayhan, Harvard University, USA
Marriage, Divorce and Property in Late Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul
Seven Ağır, Princeton University, USA
From Welfare to Wealth: Ottoman and Spanish Grain Policies in a Time of Change
Tsameret Levy-Daphny, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Diyarbakır, a Forgotten Ottoman Vilayet: A Social and Cultural History of An Ottoman Province in the 18th Century