Trained as an architect, I am a scholar with a Ph.D. degree in Architecture. As a visiting/research scholar from MIT, Columbia and Harvard universities, the subjects of my advanced academic research studies are politics of gender, multiculturalism, diversity and inclusion in my expertise field. Based on my advanced academic and archival research during my studies at the MIT-HTC Program, I presented my scholarly project and findings at the MIT-HTC Program (2016), the International Women in Architecture Symposium at Virginia Tech. (2017), the MIT-Women’s and Gender Studies Program Intellectual Forum Series (2017), the Women’s Studies Speaker Series organized by Center for the Study of Women and Society at the CUNY-Graduate Center (2017), Harvard University for a talk series organized by New England Turkish Student Association (2017), the 71st Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) - Annual International Conference where I was awarded by a SAH Fellowship (2018), and was a panelist at “A Convergence at the Confluence of Power, Identity and Design” organized by the Women in Design Group at the Harvard University, Graduate School of Design (2018). In addition to my presentations and talks on my expertise field, I was invited to “A Square and Half - The Colors, A Tribute by Ivaana Muse” as a panelist at the MIT Museum (2018), presented my recent research study and findings at WikiConference North America at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2019), and at the 51st NeMLA Convention titled “Shaping and Sharing Identities: Spaces, Places, Languages and Cultures” organized at Boston University (2020). On my most recent research project, my conference abstract was officially accepted by "Midwest Archives Conference, Annual Meeting" (2020). Prior to these presentations, I was a speaker at "Media in Transition 5 and 6", two international conferences organized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Comparative Media Studies (2007 and 2009). In my expertise field, I am an author and a contributor of two international publication projects on women architects (forthcoming 2021), In order to stimulate critical awareness of gender and women in architecture (in its profession, practice, education, history and historiography), I created and developed the first, English and online collection on the leading figures of the first and the second generations of Turkish women architects for the MIT-Archnet. In addition, I am a certificate holder by Consortium for Graduate Studies, Gender, Culture, Women & Sexuality (GCWS) at MIT. For more: meralekincioglu.com

Architecture & Urban Planning

Gender/Women's Studies

Middle East/Near East Studies

Modernization

Transnationalism

Turkish Studies

Europe

Mediterranean Countries

Turkey

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