K. Mehmet Kentel
Suna and Inan Kirac Foundation Istanbul Research Institute, 19th century Istanbul, Research Projects Manager
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I am an urban and environmental historian of the late Ottoman Empire, currently working as the Research Projects Manager at the Istanbul Research Institute. I am also the incoming University Lecturer in Urban Studies and Institute for History at Leiden University.
I received my Ph.D. from the Near and Middle Eastern Studies Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program at the University of Washington in 2018, my M.A. from the History Faculty at the University of Oxford in 2011, and my double major B.A. with high honors from the departments of History and Political Science at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul in 2010.
My research has been awarded numerous grants, including a Presidential Dissertation Award by the University of Washington, a Writing Fellowship from the International Journal for Urban and Regional Research Foundation, a Simpson Center Digital Humanities Research Fellowship, and postdoctoral fellowships from the Barakat Trust and Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), among others.
My service to global and non-Western urban studies includes serving as the Editor of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies, the only peer-reviewed journal on the study of Istanbul, past and present.
As an interdisciplinary historian working simultaneously in scholarly and public domains, my research agenda includes several major exhibitions. I am co-curating Panoramic Visions of Istanbul, on the representations of Istanbul in painted and photographic panoramas, to be opened at Pera Museum in late 2023. This builds upon my curatorial and managerial experience with Occupied City: Politics and Daily Life in Istanbul, 1918–1923 (Istanbul Research Institute, 2023), Memories of Humankind: Stories from the Ottoman Manuscripts (Istanbul Research Institute, 2019), and The Characters of Yusuf Franko: An Ottoman Bureaucrat’s Caricatures (ANAMED, 2017).
Supervisors: Resat Kasaba, Brian L. McLaren, Edhem Eldem, and Selim S. Kuru
My published work can be accessed through: https://hcommons.org/members/kmehmet/
I am an urban and environmental historian of the late Ottoman Empire, currently working as the Research Projects Manager at the Istanbul Research Institute. I am also the incoming University Lecturer in Urban Studies and Institute for History at Leiden University.
I received my Ph.D. from the Near and Middle Eastern Studies Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program at the University of Washington in 2018, my M.A. from the History Faculty at the University of Oxford in 2011, and my double major B.A. with high honors from the departments of History and Political Science at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul in 2010.
My research has been awarded numerous grants, including a Presidential Dissertation Award by the University of Washington, a Writing Fellowship from the International Journal for Urban and Regional Research Foundation, a Simpson Center Digital Humanities Research Fellowship, and postdoctoral fellowships from the Barakat Trust and Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), among others.
My service to global and non-Western urban studies includes serving as the Editor of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies, the only peer-reviewed journal on the study of Istanbul, past and present.
As an interdisciplinary historian working simultaneously in scholarly and public domains, my research agenda includes several major exhibitions. I am co-curating Panoramic Visions of Istanbul, on the representations of Istanbul in painted and photographic panoramas, to be opened at Pera Museum in late 2023. This builds upon my curatorial and managerial experience with Occupied City: Politics and Daily Life in Istanbul, 1918–1923 (Istanbul Research Institute, 2023), Memories of Humankind: Stories from the Ottoman Manuscripts (Istanbul Research Institute, 2019), and The Characters of Yusuf Franko: An Ottoman Bureaucrat’s Caricatures (ANAMED, 2017).
Supervisors: Resat Kasaba, Brian L. McLaren, Edhem Eldem, and Selim S. Kuru
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