Grants Program

Recipients: 2018-2019

The Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS) is proud to announce its grantees for academic year 2018-2019. Please join us in congratulating them. ITS has awarded the below grants in six different categories.

Research Grants (ITS-Koç Holding Fellowship in Turkish Studies)

• Bam Willoughby  (Cornell University)
  - "The Labor of Being Arap: Land and the Production of Turkish History"

Dissertation Writing Grants (Heath Lowry Distinguished Fellowship)

• Dilyara Agisheva  (Georgetown University)
  - "Colonial Encounter and the Transformation of the Legal System in Crimea in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries"
• Harun Buljina  (Columbia University)
  - "Bosnia's Last Ottoman Generation"
• Elizabeth DeLuca  (University of California, Irvine)
  - "Care Crisis: Old Age, the Compassionate City, and the Turkish Welfare State"
• Basak Durgun  (George Mason University)
  - "Cultural Politics of Urban Green Spaces: The Production and Reorganization of İstanbul's Parks and Gardens"

Conference Grants

• Roberta Micallef  (American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages Graduate Pre-Conference)

Publication Subvention Grants

• Kemal Karpat  (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  - International Journal of Turkish Studies
• Kent Schull  (SUNY Binghamton)
  - Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association
• Textile Museum  (George Washington University)
  - "A Nomad's Art: Kilims of Anatolia"

Summer Language Study Grants in Turkey for Graduate Students

• Chloe Bordewich  (Harvard University)
• John Perugini  (University of Arizona)
• Allison Terndrup  (Boston University)
• Bam Willoughby  (Cornell University)

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