Research

Eyüp Cemetery :: Winter 2011

[Update: July 2018. I joined the Department of Geography at Syracuse University in Fall 2017 and have a faculty page here. And the dissertation I talk about below was finished in 2016. It can be accessed here.]

Despite the rambling nature of the blog, there is some focus to the life I lead as a graduate student. My dissertation research is situated in the Istanbul neighborhood of Eyüp. Focusing on roughly the past 100 years, my research explores how the neighborhood has changed from two perspectives: [1] That of the built environment, trying to take into account not only what has changed, but how and why Eyüp's streets, buildings, mosques, cemeteries, and more have changed; [2] at the same time, my research also looks at the social history of the neighborhood, asking how and why Eyüp's inhabitants, visitors, tourists, and passers-by have changed since the late Ottoman Empire.

For a brief conversation with the fine folks at Ottoman History Podcast, click here.

For my personal page at the UCLA Department of Geography, click here.