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Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows

A $1.16 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports two year postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities, humanistically oriented social sciences, or in new fields with close ties to the humanities. This generous grant will enable the Cogut Center to bring visiting faculty working in new fields to campus to enrich the curriculum and provide students with new areas for study and research. These Fellows will teach one class per semester for their home departments and will participate in the weekly Fellows' Seminar series to discuss their research and that of the Faculty, International Humanities Postdoctoral, Graduate and Undergraduate Fellows.

2008-10 Mellon Fellows

Ipek Tureli
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Research Interest: Ipek’s research interests include the history of post-war urbanism, architectural historiography, architecture and media, and visual culture. Her dissertation, “Istanbul, Open City: Exhibiting Anxieties of Urban Modernity,” is an urban history of Istanbul in the post-War period. Examining exhibitionary sites at key moments, it interrogates the relationship between urban representations, production of subjectivity, and the built environment.

Ipek is currently co-organizing “Orienting Istanbul”, a conference scheduled for September 2008 at the University of California, Berkeley. Taking as a point of departure the selection of Istanbul as one of Cultural Capitals of Europe in 2010, this interdisciplinary conference and the ensuing publication will reflect on how cities and cultures have become key to imagining communities in a globalizing word. Among her publications are the paper “Modeling Citizenship in Turkey’s Miniature Park,” which appeared in the Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review in 2006, the entry on “Architecture: Contemporary Forms” in the forthcoming edition of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, and another co-authored entry on “Islamic Urbanism” with Nezar AlSayyad in the forthcoming International Encyclopedia of Human Geography.