Contact
Primary Phone: +905353707520
Kurtulus Cad. 104/6
Istanbul
Turkey
ABOUT
I am an urban and environmental historian of late Ottoman Istanbul, and the Research Projects Manager at Istanbul Research Institute. I am also the Associate Editor of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies. During the 2021-2022 academic year, I will be a postdoctoral fellow at Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, working on my first book on the environmental history of late Ottoman Istanbul.
I received my Ph.D. with distinction from the University of Washington in December 2018 with my doctoral dissertation, “Assembling ‘Cosmopolitan’ Pera: An Infrastructural History of Late Ottoman Istanbul.
I am highly involved in public scholarship and exhibition curation. I am the curator of the recently opened exhibition Hafıza-i Beşer: Osmanlı Yazmalarından Hikâyeler // Memories of Humankind: Stories from the Ottoman Manuscripts, at the Istanbul Research Institute.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Ottoman Studies
History Of Architecture
19th-21st Centuries
Turkish Studies
Urban Studies
Theory
Historiography
Middle East/Near East Studies
Environment
Geographic Areas of Interest
Turkey
Ottoman Empire
Europe
Specialties
Infrastructure
Environmental History
Istanbul
Languages
English (fluent)
Turkish (native)
French (intermediate)
Ottoman (advanced)
Latin (elementary)
Persian (elementary)
Italian (elementary)
Education
DrPH
| 2018
| Near and Middle Eastern Studies
| University of Washington
MSt
| 2011
| History
| University of Oxford
BA
| 2010
| History
| Bogazici University
BA
| 2010
| Political Science and International Relations
| Bogazici University
Abstracts
Galata and Pera across the ‘Historical Peninsula’: Late 19th Century ?stanbul and Construction/Contestation of Urban Dualities
