Research Title: Ottoman Family, Women, and Marriage in Early Modern Istanbul, 1750–1920
Dr. Kayhan–ElbirlikholdsMAandPhDdegreesfrom Harvard University (History and Middle Eastern Studies, 2005 and 2013). Dr. Elbirlik’s most recent publications include “The Emotional Bond between Early Modern Children and Parents: A Case Study of Sünbülzade’s ‘Ideal’ Child” in ChildrenandChildhood in theOttomanEmpire (14th–20th Century)(Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2021,eds. FrumaZachsandGülay Yılmaz); “FamilyandNeighborhoodLives” in Early Modern Istanbul.Brill Companion Series on Early Modern Cities(Brill,2021, eds. Çiğdem KafescioğluandShirineHamadeh). Dr. Elbirlik collaborated in the EU Horizon 2020 projectentitled PLOTINA during 2016–2020 at Özyeğin University. She is on the executive board of AMECYS (Association for Middle Eastern Childhood and Youth Studies), SES Equality and Solidarity Association, and a member of MESA (Middle East Studies Association), AHA (American Historical Association), and Global Relations Forum. Dr. Elbirlik received an ARIT-NEH grant in Summer 2020. At ANAMED sheisworking on her monograph which traces the history of the marital bond and itsdissolutionbetweenthelateeighteenthandearlytwentieth-centuryin OttomanIstanbul. She focuses on exploring the actions of women in court, in their patterns of registering marriage and divorce-related settlements to protect their rights in the public sphere. Dr. Elbirlik is a facultymember at Özyeğin University.
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