Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
ABOUT
Özde Çeliktemel-Thomen is a historian of cinema and visual culture of the Ottoman Empire and modern Middle East. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at Middle East Technical University’s History Department, working on a monograph with Assoc. Prof. Birten Çelik. She received her Ph.D. from University College London (2018) with a dissertation on the regulation of cinema during the late Ottoman period. She finished a bachelors and masters in History at Bogaziçi University (2006) and Central European University (2009). Her other interests include technology of early cinema, gender in early films, educational films, wartime films, and the use of cinema for propaganda purposes.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Cinema/Film
Historiography
Middle East/Near East Studies
Ottoman Studies
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Balkans
Ottoman Empire
The Levant
Turkey
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (fluent)
French (advanced)
Ottoman (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2018
| CMII
| UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
MA
| 2009
| HISTORY
| CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
BA
| 2006
| HISTORY
| BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY
Abstracts
Early Cinema Regulations during the Hamidian Era
Cinema and entertainment in imperial Istanbul
Movie Theater Wonders: Implementation of Modern Amenities at Movie Theaters in Imperial Istanbul
