Senior Fellows

Silviu Anghel (Columbia University, USA) “Burying the Gods”

Jun Akiba (Chiba University, Japan) “Townsmen and Villagers into Ottomans: Education, Government Service and Social Mobility in the Late Ottoman Empire”

Sabri Ateş (Southern Methodist University, USA) “Shi'is of the Sultan, Sunnis of the Shah: Religion, Politics, and the Making of the Ottoman-Iranian Boundary”

Evangelia Balta (Institute for Neohellenic Research, Greece) “Karamanlıdıka Studies”

Marie-Claude Boileau (British School at Athens, Greece) "The Ceramic Landscape of Cilicia: Assessing Diachronic Patterns of Ceramic Production in South-Central Turkey from the Neolithic to the Roman Periods "

Aftandil Erkinov (National University of Uzbekistan) “Ottoman Turkey and Central Asia: Timurid mannerism, influence and interrelations (second half of the 15th - the end of the 19th centuries)”

Ian Hodder – Spring term (Stanford University, USA) “The Role of Symbolism in the Origins of Settled Life in Anatolia and the Middle East”

Elif Keser-Kayaalp (Oxford University, UK) “Understanding Monastic Space in Northern Mesopotamia”

Sofia Kotzabassi – Spring term (Aristotle University, Greece) “The History of Doukas. Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary”

David Meiggs (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) “Pasture amd Isotopes:Refining Ideas about Feeding Ancient Alalakh”

Alexandr Musin – Spring term (Institute of History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) “The Cultural Exchange between the Region of North-Eastern Mediterranean and Anatolian and medieval Northern Russia in 750-1500 AD: Challenge of the Archaeological Approach”

Cihan Muslu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) “Behind the Scenes of Warfare: Ottoman-Mamluk Relations”

Leslie Peirce (NYU, USA) “Abduction and the Politics of Sexuality in the Ottoman World” Latife Summerer (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany) “Tatarlı: Study of a Painted Wooden Tomb Chamber in Phrygia”

Derin Terzioğlu (Boğaziçi University, Turkey) “The Age of the Kadızadelis: Social and Moral Regulation in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire”

Besim Tolga Uyar (University of Paris I, Pantheon Sorbonne, France) “Social and Cultural Interaction in Thirteenth-Century Anatolia: The Evidence of Cappadocian 'Byzantine' Murals”

Junior Fellows

Kutlu Akalın (Princeton University, USA) “Coercion and Consensus in the Post-Chalcedonian Eastern Empire: Sixth- Century Constantinople according to Syriac Sources”

Jesper Blid (Uppsala University, Sweden) “Labraunda in Late Antiquity”

Burcu Gürgan (Harvard University, USA) “Hezarfen Hüseyin's Travelling Gaze: The Life and Times of a 17th century Ottoman Encyclopedist”

Julia Jedamski (CEU, Hungary) “Decentralization in Byzantium: A topographical Analysis of the Laskarid Realm (1204-1261)”

Dimitrios Loupis (Harvard University, USA) “Applying Ottoman Rule in the Balkans: Evrenos Beg and his Descendants (14th-15th centuries)”

Dorothea Mauermann (Martin Luther University, Germany) “Development of Persian Coinage along the Asia Minor coast”

Ünver Rüstem (Harvard University, USA) “Architecture for a New Age: Imperial Ottoman Mosques in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul”

Fatma Sade Mete (University of Washington, USA) “Archaeological and Ethnographic Museums in Turkey as Places of Both Remembrance and Forgetting”

Yannis Spyropoulos (University of Crete, Greece) “The Janissaries of Crete as a Military Unit and an Interest Group from the Second Half of the 18th Century to the Suppression of the Janissary Corps (1826)”

Katerina Stathi (European University Institute, Italy) " The Sublime Porte in the City of the Wise: Power and Social Interaction in Ottoman Athens (1760-1821)"

Toby Wilkinson (University of Sheffield, UK) “Tying the threads of Eurasia: Trans-regional routes in Eastern Anatolia and western Central Asia”