Grants Program

Ilhan Basgöz, Ed., Indiana University Turkish Series
Turkish Folklore and Oral Literature: Selected Essays of Ilhan Basgöz, Kemal Silay, ed.
Avigdor Levy, Ed.
Funds for the preparation of manuscript Jews in Turkey: Five Hundred Years of Shared History
Turkish Studies Association
Matching funds for the publication of the TSA Bulletin, Volume 20, numbers 1 & 2.
Judith Yarnall
Translation of Karacaoglan's Poetry (IU Press).

Douglas Brookes (University of California, Berkeley)
Annotated translation of Gelibolulu Mustafa Ali's 1599 manuscript, Tables of Delicacies, on the structure of late 16th century Ottoman society.
Metin Ekici (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"The Anatolian Cycle of Köroglu Stories".
Shirine Hamadeh (Harvard University)
"Pleasure, the Place of the Foreign and Architectural Consciousness in 18th century İstanbul".
çigdem Kafesçioglu (Harvard University)
"The Ottoman Capital in the Making: The Reconstruction of Constantinople in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries".
Ussama Makdisi (Princeton University)
"Fantasies of the Possible: The Imagination of War in Ottoman Lebanon."

Suzan Özel
Funds to complete a Turkish textbook for university, introductory level courses.

Binghamton University, SUNY
Acquisition of materials on early modern Ottoman history, 1650-1800.
University of California, Berkeley
Acquisition of books and periodicals in Turkish.
Columbia University
Acquisition and cataloguing of books published in Turkey.
Georgetown University
Acquisition of Belleten issues.
University of Maryland, College Park
Acquisition of English language publications in Ottoman and Turkish history.
University of Michigan
Acquisition of Turkish and Ottoman periodicals.
University of Pennsylvania
Acquisition of microfilms of historical and literary materials
Mine Ener
Research on "Providing for the Poor of Late Ottoman İstanbul".
Kemal Silay
Research on "Personal Names as Cultural Signifiers: An Onomastic Approach to Literary Localization in the 18th Century Ottoman Empire".

American Association of Teachers of Turkish
Funds for a four day workshop on the use of technology in Turkish language instruction including developing teaching resources over the World Wide Web.
Binghamton University, SUNY
Matching funds for the Biennial Conference on the Ottoman Empire and the World-Economy: "Consumption in the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1922" to be held October 11-12, 1996.
Binghamton University, SUNY
Matching funds for a conference "Breaking New Ground for an Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire: A Prologue and A Dialogue" in April, 1996.
University of Michigan
Funds for a workshop on "Turkey: Continuity and Change" for secondary level and college teachers in March, 1996.
University of Pennsylvania
Funds for a workshop on Classical Ottoman Literature; and, Matching funds for a lecture series.
University of Utah
Matching funds for lectures on Ottoman and Turkish studies.

Columbia University
Funds for a one-semester course on the politics and economic and social development of modern Turkey.
Portland State University
Seed-money for a tenure-track position in Turkish Language and Civilization.