2013-2014
Seniors
Selim Ferruh Adalı, Bilkent University
Anatolian Politics in the Seventh Century BC and the Neo-Assyrian Evidence
Chiara Bordino, Tuscia University
Collecting saints in Middle Byzantine period: art and hagiography in Cappadocia, Constantinople and the Mediterranean area
Snjezana Buzov, Ohio State University
The World of Ottoman Miscellany Mecmuas
Nebahat İlgi Gerçek, University of Copenhagen
Agreements from the Early Empire Period (1450-1350 BCE): A Study of the Origins and Development of Hittite Diplomatic Documents
Hedda Reindl Kiel, Ludwig-Maximilians University
The System of Gifting in the Ottoman Elite (16th-18th Century)
Machiel Kiel, Gemente Univeriteit
The Origins and Development of the Turkish Colonization of and the Spread of Islam in the Territories of the Present Republic of Macedonia – ca. 1385 to 1900
Christos Malatras, University of Birmingham
The Latin heritage in Byzantium (9th-15th centuries)
Nicholas Melvani, National Hellenic Research Foundation
Monasteries and Society in 15th-century Constantinople
Philip Rance
Codex Constantinopolitanus graecus 36 (Topkapı Sarayı) and the Taktika of Nikephoros Ouranos
Bradley Michael Sekedat, Dartmouth College
Industrial Landscapes in Roman Asia Minor
Belgin Turan Özkaya, Middle East Technical University
Travelling, Collecting, Displaying in the 19th century: A Material History of the “Xanthian Marbles”
One term Seniors (Fall Semester Fellows)
Murat Akar, University of Florence
The Late Bronze Age II City of Alalakh and Its Social Context in the Northern Levant: A Re-Examination of the Post-Level IV Stratigraphic Sequence (I-III) based on New Excavation Results (2003-2010)
Fatih Onur, Akdeniz University
Stadiasmus Patarensis: The Monument & the Results of the Field Surveys in Lycia
One term Seniors (Spring Semester Fellows)
Nilgün Elam, Anadolu University
History of Byzantine Pamphylia According to Sigillographic and Hagiographic Data (3rd-14th centuries)
Ligia Ruscu, Universitatea Babes-Bolyai
Greek cities founded by Roman emperors in Asia Minor
Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, The College of William and Mary
From Persecution to Informal Accomodation: Ottoman Politics of Difference and the Kizilbash/Alevi Communities in Anatolia
Visiting Seniors
Benjamin Fortna, University of London, SOAS
Kuşçubaşı Eşref and his Place in the History of the Late Ottoman Empire
Anna Michailidou, National Hellenic Research Foundation
Weight measuring and value estimation in technology and exchange. The evidence from Bronze Age sites in Anatolia
Juniors
Romina Antonella Della Casa, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Hittite Myths: Lands and Memory during the Hittite Empire
Lindsay Der, Stanford University
The role of human-animal relations in the material and social organization at Çatalhöyük, Türkiye
Triantafyllia Eirini Dogiama, McMaster University
Investigating the Role of Hunting at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Türkiye
Simon Samuel Ford, University of Oxford
Continuity and Change in the Ecclesiastical Government of Early Byzantine Asia Minor, AD 641-787
Edip Gölbaşı, Simon Fraser University
The Fourth Imperial Army:Internal Security Regime, the Politics of Coercion, and Violence in the Ottoman Eastern Provinces during the Hamidian Era (1876-1909)
Erica Hughes, University of Liverpool
Embodied Identities: The presentation of the human image in prehistoric Anatolia
Steven Karacic, Bryn Mawr College
Imperial Strategy and Local Adaptations: The Archaeological Evidence from Late Bronze IIA Tarsus-Gözlükule
Emin Lelic, University of Chicago
Ilm-i firâset and the Ottoman Weltanschauung: An esoteric science in the service of empire building
Scott Rank, Central European University
Rethinking Late-Ottoman Sectarianism: Christian-Muslim Religious Polemics, c.1861-1914
Melissa Ricetti, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Texts and Seal Impressions from karum Kaniš level II: a comparative study
Adam Schneider, University of California, San Diego
Stable isotope evidence for paleoclimatic conditions in southeastern Anatolia (c.2600 – 2100 BCE)
Jonathan Stanfill, Fordham University
Embracing the “Barbarians”: The Syrians and Goths in the Pastoral Strategy of John Chrysostom
Melis Taner, Harvard University
Your true vocation is art:” Transformations in Ottoman miniature painting in the late 16th to mid- 17th centuries
J.M. Kaplan Fund Fellows
Ege Yıldırım, Ankara University (Fall term)
A Cultural Heritage Management Plan for Mudurnu: Conservation-Led Sustainable Development in an Anatolian Silk Road Town
Figen Kıvılcım Çorakbaş, Anadolu University
Preparation of ‘Site Management Plan’ for the Land Walls of Istanbul
BIAA-RCAC Fellow
Stella Souvatzi, Greek Open University
Neolithic cultural heritage and identity in Türkiye and Greece: A comparative study