ARIT REPORT 2007-2008

ANNUAL REPORT July 1, 2007—June 30, 2008

1. HOSTEL

A. GUESTS Sixty two scholars stayed at the Institute hostel this past year. Thirteen of these guests were ARIT or Fulbright fellows: five ARIT-CAORC grantees, one ARIT-Aegean fellowship grantee, three ARIT-Mellon grantees, one ARIT-BU grantee, one ARIT-NEH grantee, and two Fulbright- Hayes grantees. Affiliation statistics for the hostel are given below:

ARIT member institutions------37 Faculty...... 13 Students...... 24 North American non-member institutions------12 Faculty...... 10 Students...... 2 Institutions outside North America------13 Faculty...... 8 Students...... 5

The faculty and staff to graduate student ratio was as follows:

University Faculty and staff------31 Graduate students------31

The institutions best represented among the hostel guests were Princeton with 5 guests, followed by NYU with 4 and Duke with 3 guests each. Scholars from outside North America were affiliated with universities in the following countries: Israel (3), Great Britain (3), Bulgaria (2), Germany (1), France (1), (1), (1), and Northern Cyprus (1). Hostel usage trends have remained fairly steady over the past few years, with a total of 55-70 guests annually, with more use by ARIT institutional members than by other North American universities, and with a roughly equal division between use by graduate students and by faculty and staff. Use by scholars from outside North America averages around one fifth of the total, with the most use by scholars from Great Britain and Israel, followed by Germany and an occasional Balkan country. Hostel evaluation forms were completed by 48 guests. The results, for whatever they may be worth, have been overwhelmingly positive. Out of 48 guests filling out the form for this period, 44 said they found their stay “highly satisfactory”, while 4 found it “satisfactory”. The most frequent complaints were that the internet connection was not reliable enough (3 comments) and that the library tables were too high for comfortable typing (2 comments). It has taken us a while to ascertain the problems with the internet but we now know better how to deal with them. Occasionally the ASDL line itself is down, but more often the problem stems from our modems, which seem to work well for only a few months and then start to become erratic. We have changed modems three times in the last two years, and if necessary will be changing them even more frequently in the future. We also plan to change the library tables in the Ottoman library in the near future.

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B. INCOME Hostel income this year came to $24,914. This is the third highest income on record, but down from the last two years, as was total nights occupancy. This decrease can be attributed almost entirely to a sudden turndown we had last winter, where for the three months of January to March we had only a 20% occupancy rate, as opposed to a 90% and 75% occupancy rates for the same period the two previous years. The other nine months of the year occupancy rates were the same as they had been in previous years. I am at a loss to explain this sudden dip. As rates have reverted to the norm since them, and appear to be as high as ever this current year, I can only asume this was a matter of chance.. . The following table shows trends in hostel occupancy and income over the past six years:

2001-2 2002-3 2003- 4 2004-5 2005-6 2006-7 2007-2008

Total Guests 54 49 53 78 71 64 62

Total room n.a.. n.a. 1577 1372 1986 1835 1443 Occupancies

Total Income $17,739 $20,043 $23,749 $22,936 $31,719 $28,773 $24,914

A list of guests staying at the hostel over the past year is included in the appendices.

2. LIBRARY

A. USAGE The library had 685 walk-in users over the last year, just a little lower than the year before, with highest usage by students from Boğaziçi University, followed by Koç University, Istanbul Technical University, and Istanbul University in that order. This is an average of a little under three visits per day the library was open. As has always been the case, a majority of outside library use was by Turkish scholars, with about 27% by visiting foreign scholars:

TOTAL Turkey affiliation visits------509 Turkish university faculty and staff:------32 Turkish university students (mostly graduate)------493 Independent researchers, journalists, etc------11

TOTAL non-Turkey affiliation visits------176 Faculty and staff------23 Students (almost entirely graduate)------144 Independent researchers, journalists, etc------9

The largest single category of user is graduate students from Turkish universities, and over a third of these are from Boğaziçi University, which is nearby, and who come for both the Ottoman and the Byzantine collection, whereas it is the Byzantine Collection in particular that draws students from the other major universities and indeed from around the country. These figures are only for outside usage; they do not include use by the scholars residing at the Institute, our most important clientele.

2 ARIT ISTANBUL REPORT 2007-2008 B. COLLECTION Over the year a total of 162 monograph titles and 17 offprints were added to the collection; of the monographs 101 came as gifts and the remaining 61 were purchased. The total number of monograph titles in our library database has now reached close to 9,200 and the total number of volumes on the shelves is well over 13,000. The total number of journal titles is 264, of which 41 are currently being kept up. The rest have either ceased publishing or are partial runs that we do not keep up. The pamphlet collection consists of 2,170 items, evenly distributed beween Ottoman and Byzantine subjects, with a much smaller number on contemporary Turkey.

C. LIBRARIAN Our new Librarian, Buket Kitapcı-Bayrı, began work in January 2008. This is the first time that I am aware of that ARIT Istanbul has ever hired someone to work specifically in the library. Buket is a Byzantine historian, currently finishing a joint PhD between the Sorbonne and Boğaziçi University on Byzantine and Muslim hagiographical sources for late medieval Anatolian history. With a knowledge of medieval Greek and Ottoman, as well of course of Turkish, French and English, she is uniquely qualified to deal with the particular emphases of the ARIT collection. Her regular tasks will include making purchase decisions, offering reference help for users (something we’ve never been able to do), and better physical maintenance of the collection (binding and repair). Also among her more important tasks has been the identification of elements of the Snipes library that need to be kept up, and new resources and databases that need to be subscribed to as part of our NEH Challenge grant for library enhancement. In the meantime, however, she is finding that the most trying and physically tiring part of her work is shifting tens of meters of books around on the shelves to try to take advantage of the few remaining inches of space left in various corners and on top of shelves. We have already moved 18 m. of lesser used books and journals down into the basement room, and soon will have to move more. Thank goodness for JSTOR, which makes it much easier for us to shift old journals into storage.

Generous donations of books keep our library going, and have made it the invaluable resource it is. For this ARIT and all its users are tremendously grateful. The most important donor over the past year was Peter Kuniholm, who allowed us to select books from his own collection, prodded friends and acquaintances to give us others, and arranged for a donation from the Corning Glass Museum of important publications, including a near complete run of The Journal of Glass Studies, both to us and to the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. I wish to express a very warm thanks to all the individuals and institutions who have donated to the library over the past year, and to encourage the ARIT Board and delegates to continue in their good efforts to solicit donations for our collection.

A list of this year’s library donors is attached to this report.

3. LECTURES

The Institute hosted a total of ten lectures over the course of the year. The lecture season ran from early October to mid-December in the fall, and from late January to early June in the spring. All lectures were held on Monday nights at either 6:30 p.m. or 7:00 p.m. in the H. Kenneth Snipes Byzantine Studies Collection room, followed by receptions held one floor below in the main library room. Notifications of all lectures were sent to the other foreign institutes, to the Friends, to Dernek members, and to a mailing list of around 250 persons,

3 ARIT ISTANBUL REPORT 2007-2008 mostly academics, in the Istanbul area. Attendance at lectures varied from a low of 20 to a high of about 45 persons.

Fall Lectures

Dr. Henry Mathews, Professor Emeritus, Washington State University “Ottoman Mosques: Their Place in Global Architectural History”

Prof. Markus Dressler, Dept. of Religion, Hofstra University “Secularist Discourse, Islam, and the Question of Alevi Recognition”

Prof. Suraiya Faroqhi, History Department, Bilgi University “Ottoman Craftsmen Inside and Outside of the Guilds”

Prof. Aslı Niyazioğlu, History Department, Koç University “Dreams, Biography Writing, and the Halveti-Sünbüli Sheikhs in Late Sixteenth Century İstanbul”

Prof. Evangelos Kechriotis, History Department, Boğaziçi University “Educating the Nation: Migration and Acculturation on the Two Shores of the Aegean at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”

Spring Lectures

Prof. Jenny White, Anthropology Department, University “Turkish Women Activists and the Conservative Glass Ceiling”

Prof. Gloria Fisk, Dept. of English and Comparative Literature, Koç University “Who Do You Write For? Orhan Pamuk and the Globalism of the Novel”

Prof. John Walbridge, Fulbright Scholar, Indiana University "Who Speaks for Reason in Islam? The Neglected Tradition of Islamic Rationalism"

Maureen Jackson, PhC, Comparative Literature, University of Washington “Musical Relations and Urban Space: Jews Making Ottoman and Turkish Classical Music”

Günhan Börekçi, Ph.D. Candidate, Ohio State University, Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Fellow “The Portrait of a Young Man as a Sultan: Ahmed I and his Court (1603-1617)”

4. FELLOWSHIP AWARDS AND THE DERNEK

A. DERNEK FELLOWSHIPS The Dernek fellowship program to support advanced level research on Turkey by Turkish nationals at Turkish universities has been in existence for over forty years now, and has established itself as one of the most important sources of research funds for Turkish doctoral students working on Turkey. Hundreds of Turkish academics teaching at universities today, especially in history and archaeology, received support from this program when doing their doctoral research, and through our Dernek remain its strong supporters today. Unfortunately funding for this program is limited, coming only from ARIT’s own resources—such as membership dues. We hope in the future to find

4 ARIT ISTANBUL REPORT 2007-2008 longterm outside funding support—either in the U.S. or in Turkey-- so that we can increase the number and amounts of the individual grants given out in line with greatly increased current needs.

This year’s Dernek Fellowship Committee consisted of Prof. Alan Duben (Bilgi University), Prof. Günay Kut (Boğaziçi University), Prof. Zafer Toprak (Boğaziçi University), Doç. Görgün Köroğlu (Mimar Sinan University) and Yard. Doc. Sedef Çokay- Kepçe (Istanbul University). The committee reviewed a record 53 applications for the six fellowships advertised. Not only was the number high, but the quality of the applications was also so high that the jury decided to recommend that efforts be made to find funding for an extra two awards. Fortunately, with help from the Friends and with some squeezing of the ARIT budget the extra money was found and a total of eight projects were funded.

The following applications were funded at the post-doctoral level:

Dr. Tülin Değirmenci, Art History Dept., Pamukkale University “Baghdad’s Hidden Sultan: Sokolluzade Hasan Paşa and his Illustrated History”

Dr. Meltem Toksöz, History Dept., Boğaziçi University “Historians, Intellectuals and Academics: History Writing and History Education in the Late ”

Dr. Eda Ünlü Yücesoy, Architectural Design Dept., Istanbul Bilgi University “Istanbul at the Turn of the Century: the Economic and Social Structure of late 19th Century Istanbul”

And the following at the doctoral level:

Danış Baykan, Arkeology Dept., Istanbul University “Medical Instruments at Allianoi”

Buket Kitapcı-Bayrı, History Dept., Boğaziçi University “Byzantine and Turkish-Muslim Hagiographical Sources as the Witness of Social and Cultural Change in Late Medieval Anatolia (13-15th Centuries)”

Y. Doğan Çetinsoy, History Dept., Boğaziçi University “The Muslim Merchants and Working Class in Action: The Ottoman Boycott Movement, 1908- 1923”

Murat Metinsoy, Ataturk Institute, Boğaziçi University “Multi-Voices under a Single-Party Regime: Public Opinion, Dissent and Social Resistance in Turkey (1925-1945)”

Esra Yıldız, Art History Dept., Istanbul Technical University “The Role of Women Artists in post-1960 Contemporary Turkish Art”

B. HANFMANN FELLOWSHIPS The competition for the George and Ilsie Hanfmann and Machteld J. Mellink Fellowships for advanced research in archaeology by Turkish scholars to be done outside of Turkey had 15 applications. The jury, consisting of Prof. İnci Delemen (Istanbul U.), Prof. Nur Balkan-Atlı

5 ARIT ISTANBUL REPORT 2007-2008 (Istanbul U.), Doç Engin Akyrek (Istanbul U.), Prof. Suna Güven (METU), Prof. Marie Henriette Gates (Bilkent U.), Baha Yıldırım and Tony Greenwood, made awards to the following scholars:

Doç. Dr. Kutalmış Görkay, Ankara University, Classical Archeology Dept. & Zeugma Excavations Director, Architecture and Iconography at the Imperial Margin: Late Hellenistic and Roman Zeugma. Prof. Görkay proposed to spend the academic year completing for publication an up-to-date overview of the whole site in the context of its transformation from the Hellenistic to the Roman period, bringing together material in recent publications with that in the site’s find database.

Doc. Dr. Musa Kadıoğlu, Ankara University, Classical Archaeology Dept., The Gerontikon of Nysa, its scenae frons and Sculptural Program. Having completed three years of intensive excavation and investigation of the bouleterion, Prof. Kadıoğlu proposed to complete the research necessary to publish it in a comparative setting. Prof. Kadıoğlu will spend some months traveling in Greece, Bulgaria, Albania and Italy to study other examples of the building type, and some months at Oxford writing up his material.

Yar. Doç. Arzu Öztürk, Mimar Sinan University, Archaeology Dept., Ephesus and the Flavian Period in the Architecture of Roman Anatolia. Prof. Öztürk will study the architecture of the Flavian period in Rome for the light it throws on the significant developments in architecture in Ephesus, especially during the reign of Domitian. Prof. Öztürk will be studying in the libraries of Rome based at the Austrian Institute.

Nurcan Kayacan, Ph.D. candidate, Prehistory Dept., Istanbul University, The Introduction, Diffusion and Practice of the Pressure Flaking Technique in Neolithic Anatolia. Based on data from Akarçay Tepe, Cafer Höyük, Çatal Höyük and Ege Gübre, Ms. Kayacan will attempt to follow the introduction and diffusion of the pressure-flaking technique within Anatolian communities in the years between 8300 and 6000 BC. Ms. Kayacan will spend most of her time at University College in (Çatal Höyük database) and a shorter time at the CNRS in Nanterre

Barış Uzel, MA candidate, Protohistory and Near Eastern archeology Dept., Ege University, An Evaluation of the Socio-economic Structure of the Upper Tigris Valley during the Second Millennium BC using Micro-archaeological Methods. Mr. Uzel will analize material from three sites in the upper valley of the Tigris in the micro-archaeology laboratory at Utah University for the insight it will provide on the socio-economic structure of the region in the Middle Bronze Age.

C. GETTY-CAORC FELLOWSHIPS In the late summer of 2007 I helped organize a Getty funded-CAORC workshop on Cultural Heritage: Resources, Research, and Methods held at the Richmond hotel that brought together scholars and practitioners involved in cultural heritage preservation issues from countries around the Mediterranean and the Middle East where American research centers are located to discuss and compare preservation theory and specific practices in their respective countries. For many it was an eye-opener, and for all it was a chance to establish contact with or deepen existing contacts with fellow scholars and preservationists from around the Mediterranean. A major goal of the conference was to promote dialogue across Mediterranean and Middle Eastern borders among individuals who have too often looked only to the West for expertise and experiences and failed to see or take

6 ARIT ISTANBUL REPORT 2007-2008 advantage of what is available next door. As a next step in this process, the Getty is funding through CAORC an exchange program between CAORC centers—a series of fellowships to enable preservationists in those countries with CAORC centers to travel for research purposes to other countries around the region with centers. The first year of these fellowships was 2008. The application pool in Turkey was not large this first time around, only six applicants, but it was an interesting mix and we hope it will grow as the program becomes better known. The same jury that met for the Hanfmanns also met to rank these applications. In the current year from Turkey the program sent Dr. Mehmet Tütüncu to Oran to work on a corpus of the Ottoman period inscriptions in Algeria, while here in Turkey ARIT will host Dr. Theofanis Mavridis, Curator of Antiquities, Ministry of Culture, Greece for work on a project entitled “Colonization of the Aegean Islands: The connections to Anatolia during the late Neolithic” and Dr. Senzil Nawid, Research Affiliate, University of Arizona, for a study of Turko-Afghan Relations, 1900-1929.

5. FRIENDS OF ARIT

A. DONATIONS The Friends of ARIT continue to be an essential source of financial support for Institute activities, and our principal means of contact with the foreign diplomatic, business and educational community in Turkey. Not only do they fill an important gap by providing the money for fellowships for non-U.S. citzens, but they also provide the Institute with funds otherwise not easily available for essential improvements to the physical plant. Total donations by the Friends in FY 2007/8 came to $24, 876. The biggest portion of this, $12,180, went to administrative support to pay for the salary and taxes of Semrin Korkmaz, followed by $11,370 for fellowship support, and the rest for miscellaneous operations support.

A list of FARIT donations to the Institute is to be found at the end of the appended Financial Report.

B. ACTIVITIES FARIT income was generated by membership dues, by profits from a rich and varied program of tours, and by a fund-raising dinner. As always it tried to offer its membership new insights into the history and culture of Turkey and surrounding regions by offering out-of-the ordinary trips led by academic experts. The list below shows the variety of last year’s offerings:

A half day tour of maritime remains uncovered in recent excavations near Yenikapı, led once again by Prof. Cemal Pulak, Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M

A boat trip to Islands in the Marmara Sea with Prof. John Freely: Heybeliada, Sivriada and Yassıada

The Friends of ARIT Open house at the Institute

Boat trip to the historic castles at the Black Sea entrance to the Bosphorus, led by Prof. Lucienne Thys-Şenocak of Koç University, a specialist in Ottoman castle architecture

A trip to Bulgaria with Mellon Fellow Rossitsa Gradaeva—Sofia, Rila, Melnik and Plovdiv

A tour of the historic buildings of , led by Prof. John Freely, Dept. of Physics, Boğaziçi University

A weekend trip to Edirne, including Lüleburgaz and Uzunköprü, led by art historian, Atilla Tuna

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A tour of the historic lighthouses at the four points guarding the passage through the Bosphorus, led by Atilla Tuna

A long weekend trip to Western Thrace—the Byzantine and Ottoman monuments of the Evros (Meriç) valley, from Dimetoka to Kızıl Deli, led by Prof .Heath Lowry

A four day trip to Macedonia—Skopje, Kalkandelen and Ohrid--led by Atilla Tuna

Long weekend trip to Van, Doğubayezit, Kars and Ani—led by Prof. Geoffrey Summers.

A trip to the newly-restored Yenikapı Mevlevihanesi, led by Aylin McCarthy and Baki Baykara

A tour to Divriği and Kemaliye (Eğin), with a boat trip through the canyons of the upper Euphrates, led by Prof. Scott Redford

The high point of the Friends social season, the FARIT annual dinner, took place in early June. Now in its 24th year, the dinner was held in the back garden of the U.S. Consular Residence for the third year in a row. As always, it was a wonderful success. Our host was the new U.S. Consul General, Sharon Wiener, who has been very supportive of ARIT and to whom we are greatly indebted. Some 130 guests attended the event, including the U.S. Ambassador, Ross Wilson. The keynote speaker was Professor John Freely, author of Strolling Through Istanbul and innumerable other guides to the city and its history. He who spoke about the city as he first saw it almost 50 years ago, about the ways it has changed since that time, and the ways in which, in spite of everything, it still displays the same spirit that made him fall in love with it so many years ago. John Freely has been one of ARIT’s oldest and most devoted friends, and has lead innumerable trips and introduced countless Friends to the city. We are indebted to him once again for his kind words that evening, especially as, most fittingly, the dinner turned out to be the most successful fundraiser FARIT has ever had, for the first time making more than $10,000 in one night. As has been the emphasis in recent years, the Friends dedicated the money from the evening to the support of non-U.S. citizen applicants to ARIT’s fellowship programs.

6. FINANCES

The FY financial report summarized below shows expenses for the Istanbul Branch to have come to about $185,000. This figure represents the total monies disbursed by the Istanbul Branch (which means it does not include the Director’s salary and those library purchases and other expenses paid for by the U.S. office). In addition to operating costs, it includes fellowship moneys disbursed through the Branch, pass through monies paid on behalf of CAORC and the Hollings Center for conferences, as well as all expenses in Turkey covered by FARIT donations (programs, equipment, salaries, and some fellowships). In general, Turkish operating costs continued to rise as the the dollar fell or held steady against the Turkish Lira. This continued to hit us especially hard in wages and taxes, which have risen from a total of $24,427 in 2002-2003 to $57,866 in this FY year. However, with the recent economic crisis, the dollar’s long term decline against the Turkish Lira seems to have finally come to an end. In recent months the dollar has jumped about %20 versus TL. As a result dollar- based operating costs may be expected to fall somewhat in the current year.

8 ARIT ISTANBUL REPORT 2007-2008 SUMMARY BUDGET

Cash at year’s start: ca. $25, 889

Local Income------$59,390 Institute generated------$43,555 (Notably: Hostel income------$24,914) FARIT donations------$15,835 Sent from US Office------$121,535 Total Income------$180,925

Total Expenses------$184,604

Rent & rent tax------$38,622 Wages, taxes (inc. librarian, ext. cleaning)--- $57,866 Library------$5,430 Utilities------$5,853 Office------$5,135 Hostel upkeep------$6,931 Dernek Fellowships------$18,852 Hanfmann Fellowships--- $1,440 Lectures, Receptions------$4,396 Summer Language Program------$5,767 CAORC/Hollings conferences (pass thru) $32,872 Miscellaneous (bank, tips, travel, etc)------$1,463

Cash at year’s end—------$21,102

The most important single item of expense in Istanbul is rent, not all of which is shown above as it was not all paid out of the Istanbul accounts. Total rent for our current premises for the calendar year 2008 totalled $56,000. For 2009 it will be $60,000.

A detailed breakdown of income and expenses is appended to this report.

7. OTHER ACTIVITIES

A. SUMMER LANGUAGE PROGRAM In the summer of 2008 the Turkish language programs brought 35 fellows to Istanbul. The NCLS program brought over 20 students, who were divided evenly between Boğaziçi University and Yıldız University, while on top of that there were 15 students at Boğaziçi in our long-standing ARIT-AATT program at the advanced and advanced-intermediate levels. Fortunately for the students and for us, Sylvia Önder came to Istanbul to help out and her efforts ensured that things ran smoothly. In addition to orientations and evaluations at ARIT, most of the students participated in cultural activities we organized, including a boat tour with John Freely on the Golden Horn that went to the Patriarchate and to Miniatürk, and a trip to the Black Sea Castles with Robert Ousterhout, including, for about 12 of them, the now traditional inter-continental swim, from Asia to Europe between Anadolu and Rumeli Kavak..

9 ARIT ISTANBUL REPORT 2007-2008 B. THE HOLLINGS CENTER As it did in the previous two years, this past year the ARIT office helped the Hollings Center with the organization and logistics of two conferences in Istanbul. For this as in the past we received generous service fees. In the summer of 2008, the Hollings Center hired a Turkish executive assistant to run activities in Turkey, so presumably services of this type will not be requested from us in the future. The Hollings Center has not yet set up a proper office in Istanbul, however.

C. ARIT REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE AND THE DERNEK ARIT in Istanbul is now fully represented in its own name by the ARIT Representative Office, and no longer by the Dernek. All rents, wages, and operating expenses are the responsibility of the representative office, and are paid through accounts in the name of the Rep Office with money coming from ARIT U.S. In other words, it is no longer the Dernek but ARIT which officially maintains the center and run its programs. The Dernek still exists and will continue to exist in order to run our local fellowship programs. The Dernek now handles no money except local fellowship money. By protocol, the ARIT Rep. Office has given the Dernek the right to use ARIT as its official address.

D. OTHER ACTIVITIES In mid-summer 2007 I was fortunate enough to participate in a conference organized by CAORC on the future of the Mellon foundation-funded program that brings Eastern European post-doc scholars every year to many of the CAORC overseas research centers. Over the years the program has been lauded by both the fellowship recipients and the host centers as a terrific success. ARIT has been part of the program for 12 years and has hosted three scholars a year in either Ankara or Istanbul for periods of up to three months; the contribution of these fellows to intellectual life at the centers has been immeasurable. This past year the Institute enjoyed the company of Dr. Rossitsa Gradeeva, Dr. Geza David, and Dr. Svetlana Yanakieva. Unfortunately the funding for the program is not going to continue for much longer, but we were pleased to discover that the program is not yet dead--there was to be money for fellowships for another three years, and that efforts would be made to find ways to continue the program or some spin- off of it in the years after that. In December I helped the Joukowsky Foundation arrange a reception at the new Pera Museum for its publication of the first volume of the Freely Papers. It was a warm and pleasant gathering, with Prof. Robert Ousterhout giving a wonderful tribute to John Freely. We were fortunate to have one of the Fellows, Betül Başaran, in attendance. In June I helped lead a congressional delegation of six senators on a quick trip to the Marmaray excavations. Sheila Mathews from the INA team gave them a fascinating introduction to the importance of the ship wrecks they have been excavating. Beginning in the spring of 2008 I began actively searching in the greater Beyoğlu area for larger premises for ARIT. I’m seeking premises with space for at least eight guest rooms, at least double our current library space, a dedicated conference/lecture room, and more office space. This will require perhaps double the square meterage we have now. As of the time of this report’s filing, I have not yet found an appropriate and affordable spot.

I continue to be a part-time member of the History Department at Boğaziçi University. This past year, for the ninth time, I taught a graduate seminar in Ottoman paleography and documents, as well as lecturing in the Introduction to World History course. I taught the seminar at ARIT, where of course the collection at hand, as well as the space, is wonderfully suited for this purpose. Let me close by expressing my thanks to the Board of Directors for renewing my appointment, and for the confidence and support they have shown for my work. One of the great pleasures of being a branch director for ARIT lies in the variety of people you get to meet

10 ARIT ISTANBUL REPORT 2007-2008 everyday at the Institute, but even more important is the competence, level-headedness and amiability of the people you work with regularly. I feel fortunate to have worked with Gülden Güneri and Semrin Korkmaz in Istanbul, with Bahadır Yıldırm in Ankara, with Nancy Leinwand here in Philadelphia, and with President Ken Sams, and I cannot thank them enough for their support.

Respectfully submitted,

Tony Greenwood Istanbul Branch Director

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ARIT GUEST LIST

JULY 1, 2007 – JUNE 30, 2008

Reem Abou-El-FADL Oxford University Konstantina ANDRIANOPOULOU ARIT Agean Fellowship Yaron AYALON Princeton University James Edward BALDWIN Betül BAŞARAN St. Mary’s College of MD Nouraine BEN AZZOUNA Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes-Paris Yuval BEN-BASSAT University of Chicago Patricia BLESSING Princeton University Andrew BYNOM Washington University-St.Louis Mercedes CARBONELL Phillips Exeter Academy (Christine ROBINSON) Joy CHAMBERS John Hopkins SAIS Miriam COOKE Duke University Robert DANKOFF University of Chicago Suraiya FAROQHI Ludwig-Maximilians Uni. Rory FINNIN Columbia University George GAWRYCH Baylor University John-Paul GHOBRIAL Princeton University Rossitsa GRADEVA American University in Bulgaria (MELLON) Roderic GRIERSON Yakın Doğu University-K.K.T.C. Susan GUNASTI Princeton University Shirine HAMADEH Rice University (NEH) Leila HARRIS University of Wisconsin Wayne HARROWITZ Hebrew University Irfana HASHIMI New York University Terry HEINLEIN Wentworth Institute of Architecture Maureen JACKSON University of Washington Charlotte JIROUSEK Cornell University Ela KAÇEL Cornell University (ARIT) Daniel KSELMAN Duke University Kendra KOUVI Northwestern University Leonard LEWISOHN Oxford University Frederick LORENZ University of Washington-Seattle Davidson MacLAREN Hartford Seminary Yuko MERA University of Washington James MEYER Brown University (ARIT) Mostafa MINAVI New York University Kathryn MOORE NYU Institute of Fine Arts Inna NARODITSKAYA Northwestern University Sylvia WING ÖNDER Georgetown University

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Victor OSTHAPCHUK University of Toronto Omri PAZ Tel-Aviv University Wek-ldon PRIES Wentworth Institute of Architecture Intisar RABB Princeton University Matthew RASCOFF Harvard University (ARIT) Steven RICHMOND Istanbul Teknik University Andrew ROBARTS Georgetown University (ARIT) Ariel SALZMAN Queens University - Canada Mehmet Sefa SARAÇOĞLU Ohio State University Kent SCHULL University of Memphis Mark STEIN University of Muhlenberg-Pennsylvania Darin STEPHANOV UCLA (MELLON) Malissa TAYLOR UC-Berkeley (FULBRIGHT/HAYS) Peter VALENTI New York University John WALBRIDGE (Frances TRIX) Indiana University (FULBRIGHT/HAYS) Jenny WHITE Boston University (ARIT) Samuel A. WHITE Columbia University (ARIT) Michael Brett WILSON Duke University Svetlana YANAKIEVA Institute of Thracology (MELLON) Fariba ZARINEBAF-SHAHR Northwestern University Dror ZEEVI Ben Gurion University Giulia ZULIAN University of Birmingham

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ISTANBUL BRANCH LIBRARY DONORS

JULY, 2007 – JUNE, 2008

Individual Donors

Harry N. Abrams Machiel Kiel March S. Abramsom Nina Köprülü Yiğit Akın Yonca Kösebay-Erkan Yeşim Arat Peter Kuniholm Asuero Pablo Martin Gary Leiser James Edward Baldwin Grigorios Liantas Cem Behar Heath W. Lowry Olivier Bouquet Davidson MacLaren Palmira Brummet Paul Magdalino Miriam Cooke Mihai Maxim Robert Dankoff Robert Ousterhout Geza David Aşkım Özdizbay Tülin Değirmenci Sacit Pekak Teoman Duralı Anca Popescu Suraiya Faroqhi Cecil L. Striker Erman Gören Yaşar Sütbeyaz Rossitsa Gradeva Sultan Topçu Maureen Jackson Müjde Türkmen Brian Johnson Abdülsselam Uluçam Tuba Kancı Ayhan Vergili Semra Yıldırım-Balcı

Institutional Donors

ARIT-Ankara Kadir Has Foundation Foundation for Middle East and Balkan Studies Pera Museum Sadberk Hanım Museum Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı Vehbi Koç Foundation

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FISCAL YEAR 2007-2008

annual TL/$ conversion rate--average of monthly averages 1.22

TL Total TL $ Total $

CASH AT YEAR'S START 1,965.38 $24,278.02

INCOME

LOCAL INCOME Hostel Income 20,133.00 $8,412 Photocopy 474.30 $1 Telephone and fax 38.40 $0 E-Mail 346.00 $109 TSA 50.90 $0 Sales (books etc.) 0.00 $0 Service Fees, payments etc. 0.00 $13,501 From FARIT/BADD (as cash) 8,948.95 $8,500 Other/donations 5,228.00 $0

TOTAL LOCAL INCOME 35,219.55 $30,522.91

FROM U.S. for ARIT Expenses (Phil., CAORC or etc.) 0.00 $88,663 Pass Through Income 0.00 $32,872

TOTAL INCOME FROM U.S. AND LOCAL 35,219.55 $152,057.91

Exchanged from $ 101,321.45 Exchanged from YTL $1,700.00

EXPENSES

RENT (plus taxes) 15,155.44 $26,200

EXTRA CLEANING & TIPS 2,950.00 $0

WAGES & TAXES ARIT Assistant 24,000.00 $0 Cleaning Woman 10,300.00 $0 Librarian(s) 5,400.00 $3,600 FARIT Assist. 5,244.78 Income taxes 2,168.28 $0 Social Security 6,842.05 $0 Other taxes, fines etc. 9,300.14 $0 TOTAL 63,255.25 $3,600.00 OFFICE Telephone & Fax 2,564.20 $0 Postage 454.90 $0 Office Supplies 612.55 $0

15 ARIT ISTANBUL REPORT 2007-2008 Repairs, Services 642.52 $132 New Equipment 0.00 $1,500 Other 0.00 $0 TOTAL 4,274.17 $1,632.00 HOSTEL Upkeep (routine) 5,411.40 $0 Repairs, painting, etc. 935.00 $1,250 Purchases 584.70 $0 TOTAL 6,931.10 $1,250.00 UTILITIES Gas 4,765.00 $0 Electricity 1,555.92 $0 Water 820.00 $0 TOTAL 7,140.92 $0.00 LIBRARY & IT SERVICES Books 157.00 $1,343 Binding, shelves, supplies, etc 188.15 $650 IT equipment 723.16 $1,500 Fees, Services, etc. 160.18 $184 Internet and E-Mail Service 878.75 $0 TOTAL 2,107.24 $3,676.80 PROGRAMS Fellowships (Hanfmann & Dernek) 23,049.15 $1,400 Dernek-related (w. Ankara transfers) 166.00 $0 Lectures, Receptions 5,363.32 $0 Turkish-Language Program 1,625.50 $4,435 Other 676.00 $0 TOTAL 30,879.97 $5,835.00

MISCELLANEOUS Bank Expenses & misc. Fees 231.60 $35 Director's Travel 668.44 $0 Other Discretionary 0.00 $0 Pass through (Hollings etc.) 0.00 $32,872

TOTAL 900.04 $32,907.08

TOTAL EXPENSES IN YTL and in DOLLARS 133,594.13 $75,101

Exchanged to YTL $84,073 Exchanged to $ 2,171.40

CASH ASSETS AT YEARS END 2,740.8 $18,861.67 DOLLAR VALUE OF ASSETS $21,102.15

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FY FARIT DONATIONS

Scholarly Support 3,500.00 $8,500.00 fellowship Library Support 0 $0.00

Conference and Lecture Support 0 $0.00

Hostel and Office Support 1,620.00 $0.00 computer upgrades Administrative Support 3,696.15 $9,150.00 for the FARIT Assistant + $750 travel In-kind donations--estimated value 0 $0.00

TOTAL VALUE OF DONATIONS 8816.15 $17,650.00

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