Since the 1980s, in the context of combined processes of globalization and neoliberalization, Istanbul's integration to the global economic, political, and cultural fields has not only been intensified and redefined, but the city has also become subject to emergent global/region…
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The purpose of this dissertation work is to examine the changes in the navigation regime of the Straits of Istanbul, Chanakkale, and the Sea of Marmara (commonly known as the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles) initiated in the last decade of the 20th century and the dispute brought …
This dissertation studies the home-town associations from the Kurdish-populated Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia regions of Turkey and the recently formed Kurdish ethnic associations in Istanbul. In a broader context, it presents a dynamic analysis of how to study associations …
The purpose of this dissertation is to identify various sources hitherto neglected by the field of historic preservation in Turkey, and to seek possible ways in which they can be incorporation into this field. As demonstrated by the case study chosen for this dissertation—the Ba…
“Little Manhattan,” the new international business and finance center of Istanbul, is the place where the dominant urbanization agenda, making Istanbul a world city, and the economic development agenda, financial liberalization, were strikingly articulated as two predominant dev…
In its attempts to craft Istanbul as a “global city” and attract international business, the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality—which is presently controlled by the Islamic Justice and Development Party (JDP)—is spearheading an ambitious campaign of “urban transformation.” The t…
In the late twentieth century, Turkey, like other Muslim societies throughout the Middle East and Asia, witnessed an upsurge in Islamist political mobilization. My research project explores support for the Islamist party in Istanbul, using survey and focus group data, through a …
This dissertation explores the contemporary place of Islam in urban life through a mixed-methods project based in Istanbul, Turkey. In cities around the world, the form and practice of Islam is being reshaped by new kinds of political governance, economic development, and cultur…
The purpose of the present study is not merely to shed light on the history of the Hejaz in the eighteenth-century, but also to examine political and administrative developments which occurred in the Hejaz between 1143-1292 A.H./1731-1788 A.D., focusing particularly on relations…
This dissertation examines the relationship between medicine and social control through the lens of eugenics in 1930s Istanbul. Depending on the biographies, autobiographies, and obituaries of the doctors, the analysis starts with an inquiry into the social and professional netw…
This dissertation examines the interplay between natural disasters, vulnerability, and sustainable development. It analyzes the way natural disasters influence sustainable development, in addition to investigating how sustainability of a development shapes its vulnerability from…
In 1479, the Venetian painter, Gentile Bellini, traveled to Istanbul to serve as a court portraitist of Sultan Mehmed II. Gentile Bellini evidently brought with him a volume of drawings, which he gave to the sultan as a gift. The book contained scores of drawings made by Gentile…
This dissertation examines nonpolitical interpersonal violence in Istanbul during the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II (1876-1909). The first chapter presents the social, political, and demographic context against which such violence occurred. In it I argue that by the time of Abdü…
This dissertation brings together for the first time the complete corpus of floor mosaics from Istanbul, from thirteen sites, dating from the second to the sixth century C.E. This is also the first systematic and contextual study of this mostly unpublished material. The corpus i…
This dissertation analyzes the efforts since the mid-1980s to regenerate Istanbul's centrally located waterfront area on the Golden Horn, in Turkish Haliç. More specifically, it investigates this transition by focusing on the key actors involved and their power dynamics in the p…
This ethnography of recording studio work shows both the importance of the non-musical in shaping systems of musical practice, and the extent to which traditional music practices (including Anatolian ethnic, Turkish folk, Karadeniz, and Ottoman art musics) now exist within and a…
This dissertation aims to contribute to a better understanding of the changing relations between government and general populace in Ottoman Istanbul during the late eighteenth century. The wide-spread treatment of the eighteenth century as one of decentralization, decline and ap…
Chicago in the early twentieth century (1910s) and Istanbul later in the century (1950s), each experienced an influx of rural migrants, a process that challenged the ability of the city and its residents to cope with the ensuing problems. Though separated by time and place, Chic…
The late emergence of national industries in Turkey in the 20 th century created various challenges for the country's development, including architecture and urbanization. With reference to Lefebvre's notion that "politics" has the "privilege to embrace" the spheres of architect…