2014-2015
Seniors
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, Northeastern University
Imperial Connections? The Nahda (Arab Renaissance) and Translation Movements Between Ottoman Turkish and Arabic, 1860-1918
Ali Emre Kuruçayırlı, Bryn Mawr College
Metallurgy in Cilicia and Amuq through the Second Millennium BCE: An insgiht into patterns of Technology and Exchange
Michael Jones, Texas AM University
The Yenikapı Shipwrecks and Byzantine Maritime Trade and Technology
Naomi Carless Unwin, University College London
Practising Religion on the Interface: religion and society in Karia (7th – 1st centuries BC)
Sare Arıcanlı, Princeton University
Organization of Ottoman imperial medicine in 17th-18th centuries
Ilias Nesseris, University of Ioannina
Higher Education in Constantinople in the 12th century
Galina Fingarova, University of Vienna
Significance and Meaning of Byzantine Stone Bridges
Bobir Aminov, Studies, Uzbek Academy of Sciences
Monuments of funerary epigraphy in Ottoman Türkiye and Central Asia in the 14th to 20thcentury (general trends, cultural and historical parallels and interrelations)
Vangelis Kechriotis, Boğaziçi University
Christian populations in Ottoman Port-cities in the Black Sea and the Aegean at the turn of the 20th century
Seyfi Kenan, Marmara University
The Search for “New Order” in Education in the Late 18th Century: The Inspection of Medreses in 1792
Ayşe Hilal Uğurlu, Istanbul Technical University
Imperial Mosque Courtyards as Social Nuclei of Istanbul
Juniors
Alexandra Wirsching, Deutsches Archaologisches Institut
Dwelling beyond standard. Investigations of a living quarter in Pergamon
Andras Kraft, Central European University
Between the End and Eternity: Considerations on the Byzantine theology of time
Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano, University of Washington
Poetry and Politics in the Early Modern Ottoman World: The Court of Bayezid II (r.1481-1512)
M. Hadi Hosainy, University of Texas at Austin
Ottoman Law and Gender Seventeenth-Century Istanbul
Sabine Feist, Ludwig Maximilians University
Byzantine architecture from the transitional period between 700 and 900 A.D.
Kerem Tınaz, University of Oxford
Intellectual Trajectories From Ottomanism to Nationalism: The Cases of Mustafa Satı Bey, Tunalı Hilmi, and Abraham Galante
Nathan Leidholm, University of Chicago
Political Families in Byzantium: The Social and Cultural Significance of the Genos as Kin Group, ca. 900-1150
Mehmet Kentel, University of Washington
Cosmopolitanism over Dead Bodies: Subway, Cemetery, Garden and Urban Dualities in the Late 19th Century Istanbul
Akın Sefer, Northeastern University
Labor in the Heart of Empire: Workers, Industry and the State in the Ottoman Imperial Naval Arsenal, 1839-1876
Peter Cobb, University of Pennsylvania
The Second Millennium BCE Ceramics of the Marmara Lake Basin in their Western Anatolian Context: Mapping Networks through an Analysis of Pottery Production, Function and Exchange
Elvan Cobb, Cornell University
Railway Crossings: Encounters in Ottoman Lands
Ireen Kowalleck, Vienna University
The Early Classical Habitation Quarter on Kalabaktepe in Miletos: A Casestudy for Tracing the Persian Presence in the Material Record of Western Anatolia
One term Seniors (Fall Term)
Antonios Vratimos Chatzopoulos, Yeditepe University
The Continuator of John Skylitzes: Linguistic and Historical Approach
One term Seniors (Spring Term)
Irina Koshoridze, Georgian National Museum
Architectural complex Rabati in Akhaltsikhe (Georgia) –an example of Ottoman-Georgian architecture in Peripheries of the Empire
Visiting Seniors
Thomas Otten, Ministry for Building, Housing, Urban Development and Transport
Burial landscapes in Byzantine Anatolia and the case study of Pergamon
J.M. Kaplan Fund Fellows
Pınar Aykaç, University College London
Assessing the Impacts of Musealisation in the Urban Context: The Case of Sultanahmet Archaeological Park in İstanbul’s Historic Peninsula
Aslı Zeren, Politecnico di Milano
The World Heritage Cities in the Third Millennium: Integrated Management Strategies for Historic Urban Landscapes, The City of Istanbul and Rome
BIAA-RCAC Fellow
Caitlin Curtis, University of Buffalo
Reassessing sustainability in heritage practice at two Turkish archaeological sites
Villa I-Tatti-RCAC Fellow
Renate Burri, University of Berne
Byzantine Book Production in East and West after the Fall of Constantinople
KHI-RCAC Fellow
Federica Gigante, The Warburg Institute and School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
The reception of Islamic art in Bologna and Ferrara in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries