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Suna Cagaptay
Bahcesehir University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: +190-2123810516
Bahcesehir University
Faculty of Architecture and Design Ciragan Caddesi
Besiktas-Istanbul 34353
Turkey
Discipline
Archaeology
Sub Areas
Turkish Studies
13th-18th Centuries
Historiography
Identity/Representation
History Of Architecture
Ottoman Studies
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Anatolia
Balkans
Ottoman Empire
Mediterranean Countries
Specialties
Byzantine And Ottoman Archaeology And Architecture
Anatolian Principalities
Architectural Historiography
Languages
English (advanced)
Turkish (native)
Greek (elementary)
Italian (elementary)
Ottoman (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2007 | Architecture | University of Illinois
MA | 2001 | Archaeology and History of Art | Bilkent
BA | 1998 | Archaeology and History of Art | Bilkent
Abstracts
Trusting Architecture: Thoughts on Hybridity and Digging Deeper into the Cultural Encounter in Fourteenth-Century Bithynia Medieval Anatolia is Elsewhere: Mapping Cultural Encounters and Impasses of Architectural Historiography