The Institute of Turkish Studies | Grant Recipients 2016-2017

Recipients: 2016-2017

Post-Doctoral Summer Research Grant

• Ayten Kılıç (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  - "Paved with Good Intentions: The Road to the 1877-78 Russo-Ottoman War; Great Power Diplomacy and Ideology."

Heath W. Lowry Distinguished Dissertation Writing Fellowship

• Alexander Erich Balistreri (Princeton University)
  - "Creating Nations and States on the Turkish-Caucasian Border, 1850-1950"

Dissertation Writing Grants

• Patrick John Adamiak (University of California, San Diego)
  - "To the Edge of the Desert: Settlement, Civilization, and Caucasian Refugees in the Late Ottoman Empire (1878-1918)"
• Zoe Ann Griffith (Brown University)
  - "Roots of Wealth, Routes of Empire: Private Capital and Imperial Governance in the Ottoman Eighteenth-Century"
• Faisal H. Husain (Georgetown University)
  - "Ottoman Rivers: The Tigris and Euphrates, 1514-1831"
• Jeanene Mae Mitchell (University of Washington)
  - "At the Confluence of Transnational and Local Actors: Transboundary River Management in the Kura Basin"
• James Ryan (University of Pennsylvania)
  - "The Republic of Others: Opponents of Kemalism in Turkey's Single Party Era, 1919-1950"

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"
• Elisabeth A. Fraser (University of South Florida)
  - "Mediterranean Encounters: Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1839"

Summer Language Study Grants

• Kaleb Herman Adney (UCLA)
  - "Managing Human Capital in a Globalized Economy: Cultural Dynamics of Forced Labor During the Tanzimat Period (1839-1878)"
• Camille Lyans Cole (Yale University)
  - "Between Amarah and Muhammerah: Empire, Environment, and Technology in the Making of Modern Iraq and Iran"
• Baran Germen (University of Oregon)
  - "Melodramatics of Turkish Modernity: Narratives of Victimhood, Affect, and Politics"
• Ian Foss Hathaway (Yale University)
  - "Cross-Cultural Circulation and Exchange in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean"
• Nadirah Mansour (Princeton University)
  - Summer Turkish Study at Boğaziçi University (Intermediate Modern Turkish)
• Ellen Mary Nye (Yale University)
  - "Social Currency: Prohibitions on Monetary Flows in 18th-Century Ottoman and British Political Economy"
• David Reher (University of Chicago)
  - "Intensive Language Study in İstanbul"
• Eileen Sleesman (University of Washington)
  - "Conversion Rates: Online Media and Protestant Christianity in Turkey"
• Marissa Jeanne Smit (Indiana University)
  - "Masculinity and Boundary Maintenance in Futuwwat"