Özge Calafato is Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests lie at the intersection of photography, archive, memory and cultural identity. Her book Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era (I.B. Tauris, 2022) focuses on photographic representations of the urban middle classes in Turkey from the 1920s to the 1940s in the context of a society undergoing rapid secularization and Westernization.
Discipline
Media Arts
Sub Areas
Cultural Studies
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Turkey
All Middle East
Specialties
Cultural Studies, Turkish History. Ottoman Empire,
Photography
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (native)
French (advanced)
German (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2020
| ASCA
| University of Amsterdam
MA
| 2007
| Journalism
| University of Westminster
