2011-2012
Seniors
Astrid Lindenlauf, Byrn Mawr College
Waste Management in the Ancient Greek World
Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann, University of Pennsylvania
Social and Economic History of Agriculture in the Ankara Region: A Comparative Case Study of Six Village Communities
Bülent Arıkan, Arizona State University
Bronze Age Environmental and Social Dynamics in the Upper Euphrates and Tigris Basins
Carlo Corti, University of Florence
The Cultural Tradition of the Reign of Zalpa on teh Black Sea The Origins of Hittite Kingship
Efthymios Rizos, Oxford University
The Foundation of New Cities in Anatolia During Late Antiquity (late 3rd-6th century A.D.)
Emma Baysal, University of Liverpool
Craft and Identity at Boncuklu Höyük: An Experimental Approach to Stone Bead Technology
Fariba Zarinebaf, University of California
Encounters & Empires: Islam, Europe, Gender and Modernity in Ottoman Istanbul
Giulio Palumbi, Independent scholar
Red-Black Anatolia: A ceramic production for different Cultural Identities? The Red-Black Burnished Ware from the Chalcolithic to the Early Bronze Age
Hansgerd Hellenkemper, Römisch-Germanisches Museum
Imperial Landscaping. Byzantine Summer Palaces Outside Constantinople
Livia Bevilacqua, Sapienza University of Rome
Figural Spolia in Byzantium: Reuse, Rework, Reinterpretation (330-1453)
Maria Xenaki, Université Paris 1, UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée
The Culture of the Ornament in Early Medieval Anatolia (8th-10th centuries)
Megan Lynn Welton, University of Toronto
Technological Petrographic Analysis of Late Bronze-Iron I Transitional Pottery from Tell Tayinat
Tehnyat Majeed (Spring term), Independent scholar
The Shahada Square Kufic Inscriptions on the Great Mosque of Mardin: A Cross-Cultural, Historical and Contextual Examination
Thomas Drew-Bear, Independent scholar
The publication of Greek, Latin and Pisidian inscriptions on display in Sadberk Hanım Museum and Koç University
Juniors
Aleksandar Shopov, Harvard University
Intersection of science, horticultural expertise, the natural environment, technology, politics and the economy in the production of food in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Ottoman period
Alexander Vacek, Oxford University
The Greek and Related Pottery from Al Mina. A Case Study of Production, Consumption and Distribution of Greek Pottery in the Eastern Mediterranean from c. 800 to 600 BCE.
Ann M. Morgan, University of Texas
Foundation Myths and Local Identity in the Urban Landscapes of Asia Minor
Aylin Beşiryan, European University (Florence)
Negotiating the Ottoman Constitution, 1856-1876
Berker Cengay, Princeton University
A New Savior for the Public: A Comparative Analysis of Popular Scientific Writing in Late Ottoman and Qing Empire
Frouke Schrijver, University of Birmingham
The early Palaiologan Court (1261-1354)
Merih Danalı, Harvard University
Negotiating Self-Representation and Cultural Identity: Artistic and Cultural Responses to the Byzantine and Ottoman Encounter (ca.1300-1453)
Özge Ertem, European University, Florence
Eating the Last Seed: Famine, Empire, Survival and Order in Ottoman Anatolia in the late 19th century
Rik Vaessen, University of Sheffield
The Aegean in crisis? Reconsidering the significance of the appearance of Protogeometric pottery on the west coast of Asia Minor
Salim Aykut Öztürk, UCL
Mapping the Armenian Istanbul of Late Ottoman Period: Re-locating Istanbul in the History of Armenians
Tera Hedrick, Northwestern University
The Power of Objects: Ars Sacra and the Negotiation of the Sacred in Late Byzantium