Faculty Members
(* Part-time instructors)

Miyuki Aoki Girardelli*, CV Ph.D., 2004 Istanbul Technical University.
Art and Architectural History; Cultural Encounters in Euro-Asian Perspective.
miyuki.aoki@boun.edu.tr

Lale Babaoğlu Balkış, Ph.D., 1995 Istanbul University.
Art and Architecture of Medieval Europe; Image of the Turk in the German Speaking World; Modern Art
lale.babaoglu@boun.edu.tr

Günhan Danışman,  CV Ph.D., 1976 University of London.
History of Technology and Urbanism.
danisman@boun.edu.tr

Selim Deringil, Ph.D., 1979 University of East Anglia.
Ottoman History; Imperial Past and Nationalist Presents; Political and Intellectual History
deringil@boun.edu.tr

Koray Durak, CV Ph.D., 2008 Harvard University.
Byzantine History; Medieval Islam; Economic History of the Medieval Mediterranean
koraysdurak@gmail.com

Edhem Eldem, CV Ph.D., 1989 Provence University.
Ottoman Social and Economic History 18th-early 20th Century
eldem@boun.edu.tr

Mariko ErdoÄŸan, CV B.A., 1976 Kokugakuin University.
Japanese Language and Literature.
erdogama@superonline.com

Ahmet Ersoy, CV Ph.D., 2000 Harvard University.
Nineteenth Century Architecture and Visual Culture in the Ottoman Empire and Europe; Late Ottoman Cultural History
ersoya@boun.edu.tr

Selçuk Esenbel, CV Ph.D., 1981 Columbia University.
Japanese History; Peasant Studies; Historiography; Asian Civilizations.
esenbel@boun.edu.tr

Paolo Girardelli, Ph.D., 1995 University of Naples.
Representations of National and Cultural Identities; Visual Interactions Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire; Western Approaches to Islamic Visual Culture.
girardel@boun.edu.tr

Anthony Greenwood*, Ph.D., 1988 University of Chicago.
Ottoman Institutional, Social and Economic History.
gwood@boun.edu.tr

Derya Gürses Tarbuck*,CV Ph.D., 2004 Bilkent University. 
The Scottish Enlightenment, Early Modern History of Science and Religion, Enlightenment Sociabilities, Enlightenment/Counter-Enlightenment Debates.
deryagurses@hotmail.com

Huricihan Ä°slamoÄŸlu, Ph.D., 1979 University of Wisconsin, Madison.
European and Ottoman Social and Economic History.
huriciha@boun.edu.tr

ÇiÄŸdem KafescioÄŸlu, CV Ph.D., 1996 Harvard University.
Ottoman Art, Architecture and Visual Culture; History of Urbanism; Art and
Architecture of the Islamic World
kafescio@boun.edu.tr

Yavuz Selim Karakışla, CV Ph.D., 2005 State University of New York, Binghamton.
Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire; History of Ottoman Labor; History of Ottoman Women; History of Losers in the Ottoman Empire.
ykarakisla@boun.edu.tr

Vangelis Kechriotis, CV Ph.D., 2005 University of Leiden.
Late Ottoman Social History.
evangelos.kechriotis@boun.edu.tr

Ami Makinae*, M.A., 2003 University of Tsukuba.
Japanese Language and Literature.
amakinae@yahoo.co.jp

Nevra NecipoÄŸlu, Ph.D., 1990 Harvard University.
Byzantine History; Byzantine-Turkish Relations; Social and Economic History of the Late Byzantine Empire.
necipogl@boun.edu.tr

Rana Özbal* CV Ph.D., Northwestern University 2006
Archaeology of the Near East and Anatolia; Theoretical Approaches to Archaeology; Early Complex Societies
rana.ozbal@boun.edu.tr

Arzu Öztürkmen, CV Ph.D., 1993 University of Pennsylvania.
Oral History; Folklore, History of Performing Arts; Historical Ethnography.
ozturkme@boun.edu.tr

Aslı Özyar, CV Ph.D., 1991 Bryn Mawr College.
History and Archaeology of Ancient Anatolia; Mesopotamian History and
Archaeology; Eastern Mediterranean Interconnections.
ozyar@boun.edu.tr

Oya PancaroÄŸlu, CV Ph.D., 2000 Harvard University.
Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture
oya.pancaroglu@boun.edu.tr

Yücel TerzibaÅŸoÄŸlu, CV Ph.D., 2003 Birkbeck College, University of London. Economic History of Europe and the Middle East; 19th Century Ottoman History (Landed and Urban Property , Crime and Punishment, Law and Legal Institutions)
yucel.terzibasoglu@boun.edu.tr

Derin TerzioÄŸlu, Ph.D., 1999 Harvard University.
Ottoman Cultural and Intellectual History.
derint@boun.edu.tr

Zeynep Tlabar*, M.S., 1989 Middle East Technical University.
Statistics
zeynep.tlabar@boun.edu.tr

Meltem Toksöz, CV Ph.D., 2000 State University of New York, Binghamton.
Ottoman/Turkish Social and Economic History; Middle Eastern History; Women’s Studies, Modern South Asian History, and History of Asian Civilizations.
toksozme@boun.edu.tr

Zafer Toprak, Ph.D., 1980 Ä°stanbul University.
Ottoman and Modern Turkish Social and Economic History.
toprakz@boun.edu.tr

Fatma Türe, Ph.D., 2008 Boğaziçi University.
Modern Turkish History.
fatma.ture@boun.edu.tr

Lale Uluç*, Ph.D. 2000 Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
Turco-Persian Arts of the Book; Persian Cultural History; Ottoman-Safavid Relations
laleuluc@hotmail.com

Anestis Vasilakeris*, MA, 1996, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes.
Byzantine Art History and Archaeology.
anestis.vasilakeris@boun.edu.tr

Guiyuan Yang, M.A., 1994 Tianjin Normal University.
Chinese Language.
guiyuan.yang@boun.edu.tr

Faculty Assistants:

Cumhur Bekar
cumhurbekar@gmail.com

Melek CevahiroÄŸlu
melekcevahiroglu@gmail.com

Abdullah Ahmet Saçmalı
abdullah.ahmet@gmail.com

Faculty Secretary:
Oya Arıkan
arikano@boun.edu.tr