Grants Program
Recipients: 1986-1987
Graduate Fellowships (Institutional)
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- University of Chicago
- Columbia University
- Indiana University
- University of Michigan
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Texas at Austin
- Tufts University
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation Writing Grants
- Catalina Chesley (University of Michigan): Cultural Integration and Socioeconomic Mobility of Second-generation Residents of a Gecekondu.
- Douglas Howard (Indiana University): Changes in the Administration of Timar System, 1566-1656.
- Hasan Kayali (Harvard University): Turkish-Arab Relations in the Second Constitutional Period of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918.
- Fusun Leventoglu (University of Chicago): The Acquisition of Tense Markers by Turkish Children.
- Ruth Mandel (University of Chicago): Consequences and Patterns of Migration from Turkey to West Germany, and Repatriation of Gastarbeiters.
- Beatrice St. Laurent (Harvard University): Architecture and Urban Development of Bursa during the 19th and early 20th Centuries
Grants for Post-Doctoral Summer Travel/Research in Turkey
- Emelie Olson, Ethnographic Study of Symbol Systems and Ritual Events in the Visits by Turkish Women to the Shrines of Muslim Saints.
- Mark Pinson, Research on Migration between Ottoman Balkans and Russia in 18th-19th Centuries, and on the Tanzimat in Bulgaria.
- Sarah Shields, Study of Records on the Mossul Provincial Budget in the 19th Century.
- Grace Smith, Research on the Role of Food in Turkish Religious Context from 15th to 20th Century.
- Walter Weiker, Study on the History of the Jewish Community in Turkey.
Post-Doctoral Released Time from Teaching
- Rifa'at Ali Abou-El-Haj, Study on the Social, Political and Economic Crises of 17th Century Ottoman Empire.
- Bruce Kuniholm, Research on book on US-Turkish Relations.
Post-Doctoral Conference Travel Grants
- Ilse Cirtautas
- Roderic Davison
- Michael Gunter
- Abbas Hamdani
- Jorge Hankamer
- Guliz Kuruoglu
- Robert W. Olson
- Dan Slobin
- Joseph Szyliowicz
- Karl Zimmer
Undergraduate Scholarships
- American Research Institute in Turkey
- University of Chicago
- Columbia University
- Indiana University
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Washington
Subventions for Publications
- Journals:
- Archivum Ottomanicum, Volume XI, 1986.
- Journal of Turkish Studies, Volume X, Essays Presented to Halil Inalcik on His Seventieth Birthday by His Colleagues and Students, 1987.
- Books:
- Frank Ahmed, Turks in America: The Ottoman Turk's Immigrant Experience. Greenwich, C.T.: Columbia International, 1993.
- Zeynep Celik, The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986.
- Thomas Goodrich, The Ottoman Turks and the New World: A Study of Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi and Sixteenth Century Ottoman Americana. Wiesbaden: Otto Harassowitz, 1990.
Library Grants
- American Research Institute in Turkey
- Brandeis University
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Chicago
- Columbia University
- Fordham University
- University of Michigan
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Princeton University
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Utah
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
Matching Seed-Money Grants for New University Positions in Turkish Studies
- Harvard University (salary for teaching assistant for Ottoman poetry class)
- Ohio State University (3rd year seed-money to establish a full-time position of Turkish language and literature)
- University of Illinois (2nd year seed-money to establish a Turkish language course)
- University of Texas at Austin (1st year seed-money to establish a full-time position of Turkish language and literature)
Grants for Conferences, Lecture Series and Workshops
- Brandeis University (workshop on "Jews in the Ottoman Empire")
- University of California, Berkeley (conference on the "Veneration of Saints and Sainthood in the Muslim World")
- University of Chicago (Turkish language circles)
- Indiana University (conference on the "Turkic World in the 1980's")
- University of Michigan (lectures on modem Turkish literature)
- Princeton University (lectures and workshop on "Ethnicity in the Central and Arab Lands of the Ottoman Empire")
- University of Texas at Austin (multi-media presentation on Turkey during University International Fair)
- Tufts University (workshop on the Turkish economy) University of Utah (intensive seminars in Turkish studies)
Existing Program Support
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- University of Chicago
- Columbia University
- Harvard University
- Indiana University
- University of Michigan
- University of Pennsylvania
- Turkish Studies Association
Teaching Aids Grants
- American Association of Teachers of Turkish (elementary level vocabulary project; survey of Turkish language teaching materials)
- Giiliz Kuruoglu (development of a reader and texts for 1st and 2nd year Turkish)
Grants for Miscellaneous Projects
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (exhibition of Sinan's architectural drawings)
- Stanford J. Shaw (Republic of Turkey databank at University of California, Los Angeles)
- Gonul Tekin/Isenbike Aricanli (research project on Ahmedi's Iskendername)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (outreach program)
- "1986 TSA/ITS Prize" (for best book published in 1984-85: Poetry's Voice, Society's Song by Walter Andrews)
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