Grants Program

Recipients: 1991-1992

Graduate Fellowships (Institutional)
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of Chicago
  • Columbia University
  • University of Maryland
  • University of Michigan
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • University of Utah
  • University of Washington
Dissertation Writing Grants
  • Najwa Al-Qattan (Harvard University): Socio-economic History of the Damascene Jewish Community, 1775-1860.
  • Dane Kusic (University of Maryland Baltimore County): The Reading of the Kuran in Turkey: Identity of Culture, Ethnicity, and Sound.
  • Joyse Matthews Ucar (State University of New York at Binghamton): Nature of Revolts by the Rebel-elite Holding Offices in Anatolia, 1622-1918.
  • Mark L. Stein (University of Chicago): 17th Century Ottoman Forts and Garrisons on the Habsburg Border.
Post-Doctoral Conference Travel Grants
  • Andras Bodrogligeti
  • Howard Reed
Subventions for Publications
  • Journals:
    • Journal of Turkish Studies, Volume XIV, Essays Presented to Fahir Iz on His Eightieth Birthday by His Colleagues and Students, 1990.
    • Turkish Music Quarterly. Volume IV, 1991.
  • Books:
    • Rifa'at Ali Abou-El-Haj, Formation of the Modern State: The Ottoman Empire Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991.
    • Yildiray Erdener, Turkish Through Songs. Bloomington: Indiana University Turkish Studies, 1992.
    • Henry Glassie, Turkish Traditional Art Today. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
    • Raymond Lifchez, The Dervish Lodge: Architecture, Art and Sufism in Ottoman Turkey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
    • James Morganstern, The Fort at Dereagzz and Other Material Remains in its Vicinity: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Tiibingen: E. Wasmuth Verlag, 1993.
    • Laurence Salzmann and Ayse Gursan-Salzmann, Anyos Munchos i Buenos: Turkey's Sephardim: 1492-1992. Philadelphia: Blue Flower/Photo Review Book, 1991.
Library Grants
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of Chicago
  • Columbia University
  • Georgetown University
  • Indiana University
  • Library of Congress
  • University of Michigan
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Princeton University
  • State University of New York at Binghamton
  • University of Utah
Matching Seed-Money Grants for New University Positions in Turkish Studies
  • Princeton University (to establish a full-time position in Turkish linguistics and literature)
  • Georgetown University (to establish position for intensive basic level Turkish language instruction)
Grants for Conferences, Lecture Series and Workshops
  • University of Chicago (Teachers' Workshop on "Refugees in the Ottoman Empire and Modem Turkey")
  • University of Michigan (Turkish colloquium series)
  • Ohio State University (support for graduate student conference)
  • University of Pennsylvania (support for a colloquium during summer language consortium)
  • State University of New York at Binghamton (lecture series on "The Ottoman Background of the Modern Middle East")
  • Society of Turkish Architects, Engineers and Scientists (symposium on "Turkish Architecture and Urbanism")
Teaching Aids Grants
  • American Association of Teachers of Turkish (Operational expenses; compilation and dissemination lists of cognates for Turkish language teaching)
  • Center for Puppetry Arts (support for exhibition "Karagoz: The Turkish Shadow Play Theater")
Grants for Miscellaneous Projects
  • "1991 TSA/ITS Prize" (for best article published in 1989-90: "Suleyman the Magnificent and the Representation of Power in the Context of Ottoman-Habsburg-Papal Rivalry" by Gulru Necipoglu)
  • "1991 TSA/ITS Student Paper Prize" (for best Graduate Student Paper published in 1990)
  • "1992 TSA/ITS Prize" (for best book published in 1990-91: Izmir and the Levantine World by Daniel Goffman)

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