Grants Program

Recipients: 2006-2007

Dissertation Writing Grants

• Tolga Esmer (University of Chicago)
  Religion and Rebellion: Muslim and Christian Notables and the Politics of Communal Violence in the Ottoman Balkans, 1785-1839
• Fatma Gul Unal (University of Massachusetts)
  The Impact of Factor Markets on Inequality and Poverty in Rural Turkey

Comparative Studies of Modern Turkey Research Grant

• Esra Ozyurek (University of California - San Diego)
  The Role of Islam and Christianity in the New Europe

Library Grants

• University of Kansas
• University of Akron
• University of Southern California
• Drury University

Subventions for Publication

• James Grehan (Portland State University)
  Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in 18th Century Damascus
• Shirine Hamadah (Rice University)
  The City's Pleasures: Architectural Sensibility in Eighteenth Century İstanbul
• Karpat, Kemal (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  Internation Journal of Turkish Studies Vol. 12, No. 1-2
• Esra Ozyurek (University of California - San Diego)
  Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey
• Baki Tezcan (University of Wisconsin)
  Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman Middle East and the Balkans: A Volume of Essays in Honor of Norman Itzkowitz

Summer Language Study Grants

• Boshara, Jay (University of Iowa)
  Tomer, İstanbul, Turkish Language
• John Bragg (University of Wisonsin)
  Harvard-Koç University
• Radha Dalal (University of Minnesota)
  Harvard-Koç University
• Chase Gummer (Georgetown University)
  Boğaziçi University
• Matthew Lubin (University of Chicago)
  Harvard-Koç University
• Jared Manasek (Columbia University)
  Boğaziçi University
• Mentor Mustafa (Boston University)
  Tomer, Ankara, Turkish Language
• Andrew Robarts (Georgetown University)
  Harvard-Koç University
• Susan Rottman (University of Wisconsin)
  Boğaziçi University
• David Stevens (Columbia University), Peter Valenti (New York University)
  Tomer, İstanbul, Turkish Language
• Danielle van Dobben (University of Arizona)
  Boğaziçi University
• Samuel White (Columbia University)
  Harvard-Koç University
• Michael Wilson (Duke University)
  Harvard-Koç University

Matching Seed-Money Grants for New University Positions in Turkish Instruction

• University of Minnesota
• Boston University

Conferences

• University of Illinois
• AATT
• Northwestern University

Undergraduate Exchange Programs

• Case Western University
• Georgetown University

Summer Travel Grants

• Brian Silverstein (University of Arizona)

Summer Research Grants

• Leyla Amzi (Columbia University)
  Identity and Migration in the Late Ottoman Period: Government Migration Policies and the Case of Bosnian Muslims
• Heather Coleman (University of California - Santa Barbara)
  A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Restoration Efforts in the Golden Horn Estuary
• David Hassinger (University of California - Davis)
  The Discursive Construction of "The Gecekondu Phenomenon" in Turkey
• David Stevens (Columbia University)
  In Retreat: Explaining Variation in the Durability of Military Prerogatives in Transitioning Democracie

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