Grants Program
Recipients: 1997-1998
Subvention for Publications
Dissertation Writing Grants
- Yasemin Çelik (City University of New York)
"Turkish Foreign Policy after the Cold War"
- Lynne M. Thornton (Indiana University)
"Guilds of İstanbul in the late 18th century: A Study in Conflict, Power, and Authority"
- Marguerite Wiese (Harvard University)
"Osman II: A Study in Early Ottoman Reformism"
Graduate Fellowships
- Linda Carroll (Binghamton University)
Study Ottoman Turkish and support fieldwork on the Madra çay Ottoman Archaeology project
- Edward M. Copps (Harvard University)
"Transition from Mamluk to Ottoman Rule: Reorientations in Sunni Political Culture"
- Michele Penner (Princeton University)
"Turkey's transition from single-party rule to multi-party democracy in the 1940s as compared with Tunisia's experience"
- Serap Deniz Rada (University of Maryland)
"Turkey's economic process as compared with the experience of South Korea"
- Lisa A. Schwarz (Cornell University)
"Turkey's Textile Boom: Effects on Women's Employment and Family Well-Being"
- Kim Shively (Brandeis University)
"Turkish working-class women's relationship to the Islamist discourse regarding proper appearance and role of women in Turkish society"
- Yücel Yanikdag (Ohio State University)
"Ottoman soldiers interned by the British in Egypt During WWI"
Post-Doctoral Travel & Research in Turkey
- Yioryos Bilalis
Study the evolution of Terenum in Ottoman court music; notational system used by Ottoman composers
- Michael R. Hickok
"Ottoman military theory and technology transfer during the 18th century"
- Nuha Khoury
Study the inscriptions of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque for book on the import and intent of monumental inscriptions in the context of 17th century Safavid-Ottoman relations.
- Paul J. Magnarella
"Development of Sociocultural Anthropology in Turkey: from 1975 to Present"
Teaching Aids
- American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages (AATT).
Funds to update and reproduce the AATT poster
- Kemal Silay
Development of a CD-ROM illustrating the works of approximately 100 modern Turkish poets
- Sinasi Tekin
Development of an Ottoman Turkish Language Textbook
Library Grants for Acquisition and Cataloguing
- Binghamton University
Acquisition of books in the field of Turkish studies.
- University of California, Santa Cruz
Acquisition of works on Ottoman and modern Turkish literature, history, and art.
- Purchase College, SUNY
Acquisition of recently published monographs in the field of Turkish studies.
- Textile Museum
Acquisition of books on Turkish textiles, history and culture.
Grants for University Sponsored Conferences, Lecture Series, Workshops
- American Association of Teachers (AATT)
Workshop to build expertise on testing within AATT to develop sample tests and guidelines to assess Turkish language proficiency
- Harvard University
Matching funds for a Conference on "Law and Its Application in the Kad_ Courts of the Ottoman Empire"
- University of Michigan
Workshop for secondary school and community college educators on "Islam and Secularism in Modern Turkey"
- University of Pennsylvania
Public Lectures in Turkish Studies
- University of Utah
Week-long seminar on "The Process of Liberalization in Turkey after 1960"
Special Grant
- Columbia University, Middle East Institute
Support for a one-semester course on Turkish foreign policy and the politics and social development of modern Turkey.
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