Grants Program

Recipients: 2017-2018

The Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS) is proud to announce its grantees for academic year 2017-2018. Please join us in congratulating them. ITS has awarded the below grants in six different categories.

Heath W. Lowry Distinguished Dissertation Writing Fellowship

• Noah Amir Arjomand (Columbia University)
  - "Behind the Bylines: Fixing World News in Turkey"

Dissertation Writing Grants

• Henry Randel Shapiro (Princeton University)
  - "The Great Armenian Flight: The Celali Revolts and the Rise of Western Armenian Society"
• Isacar A. Bolanos (Ohio State University)
  - "Conquering Nature in Ottoman Iraq, 1831-1909"
• Alexander Schweig (University of Arizona)
  - "Tracking Technology Transfer: Techno-Social Agency Along the Ottoman Anatolian Railroad, 1890-1914"
• Benjamin James Smuin (University of California San Diego)
  - "Speaking to the State: Petitions, Citizenship, and the Legacies of Ottoman Reform in Aleppo, 1868-1936"
• Bennett Gabriel Sherry (University of Pittsburgh)
  - "Refugees, Rights, Restrictions: Human Rights and the Evolution of the UNHCR in Turkey, 1960-1994"
• Pinar Tasci-Odabasi (University of Akron)
  - "Edirne during the Balkan Wars: Urban Life and Inter-communal Relations on the Eve of the Nation-State"

Mark Pinson Grant for Graduate Research on the Ottoman Balkans

• Fredrick Walter Lorenz (UCLA)
  - "Relocating Balkan Muslims to Anatolia: Local Agency in Transforming Ottoman State Policy, 1878-1923"

Grants for the Publication of Scholarly Books and Journals

• Kemal Karpat (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  - "International Journal of Turkish Studies"
• Kent Schull (Binghamton University (SUNY)
  - "The Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies"

Summer Language Study Grants

• Henry Atticus Clements (Yale University)
  - "Summer Language Study in Turkey"
• Rebecca Joy Clendenen (University of Illinois at Chicago)
  - "Finding Culture in Structures of Governance"
• Joseph Norman Hermiz (University of Chicago)
  - "Syriac Christians in the Late Ottoman Empire"
• Lydia Danielle Harrington (Boston University)
  - "Architecture, Governance, and Experience in Late Ottoman Arab Provincial Capitals"
• Nader Hammad Attasi (Columbia University)
  - "Intellectual History of Economic Thought in the Late Ottoman Empire"
• Matthew Alan Sharp (University of Pennsylvania)
  - "Ottoman Connections to American and British Converts to Islam"

Library Grant

• Syracuse University, Middle Eastern Studies Program
• Pepperdine University

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