ARIT REPORT 2006-2007

ANNUAL REPORT July 1, 2006—June 30, 2007

1. HOSTEL

A. GUESTS Sixty four scholars stayed at the Institute hostel this past year. Twelve of these guests were ARIT, CAORC or Fulbright fellows, as follows: two ARIT-CAORC grantees, one ARIT- Aegean fellowship grantee, one ARIT-Mellon grantee, one ARIT-BU grantee, two CAORC multicountry grantees, two Fulbright and three Fulbright-Hayes grantees. Reversing the trends of recent years, our hostel facilities were used more by graduate students than by faculty members and staff, and more by ARIT institutional members than by others.

ARIT member institutions------34 Faculty...... 10 Students...... 24 North American non-member institutions------17 Faculty...... 11 Students...... 6 Institutions outside North America------13 Faculty...... 7 Students...... 6

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

University Faculty and staff------28 Graduate students------36

The institution best represented among the hostel guests was once again the University of Chicago with 6 guests, followed by Princeton and Georgetown with 3 guests each. Scholars from outside North America were affiliated with universities in the following countries: Israel (3), Germany (3), France (3), Great Britain (2), (1), and (1).

At the request of funding agencies, in August 2006 we began asking guests to fill out a hostel evaluation form when they leave. The results, for whatever they may be worth, have been overwhelmingly positive. Out of 40 guests filling out the form for this period, 37 said they found their stay “highly satisfactory”, while 3 found it “satisfactory”. No one wrote that it was “unsatisfactory”.

B. INCOME Hostel income this year came to $28,773 This is the second highest income we have ever had, after last year’s record. Once again we had a high number of long term guests, especially over the late winter and spring, and the resulting high average occupancy rate of 72%. Occupancy was particularly high in the period March through May, and lowest in January- February, but there was never a month we had less than 50% occupancy. There were a total of 71 nights during the year when all rooms were full, including almost all of March and May and most of November and December.

A list of guests staying at the hostel over the past year is included in the appendices (p. 10).

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The following table shows trends in hostel use over the past six years:

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

Total Guests 54 49 53 78 71 64

Faculty 31 28 32 40 39 28 Students, etc 23 21 21 38 32 36

ARIT Inst. 31 20 23 36 35 34 Non ARIT 23 29 30 42 36 30

N. American 40 37 38 61 48 51 Non N. Amer. 14 12 15 17 23 13

Total nights occupancy n.a.. n.a. 1577 1372 1986 1835

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

2. LIBRARY

A. USAGE Library usage continues at a high rate. We had 737 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 about 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------536 Turkish university faculty and staff:------32 Turkish university students (mostly graduate)------493 Independent researchers, journalists, etc------11

TOTAL non-Turkey affiliation visits------201 Faculty and staff------27 Students (almost entirely graduate)------160 Independent researchers, journalists, etc------14

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 Snipes 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 2006-2007 B. COLLECTION Over the year a total of 160 monograph titles and 47 offprints were added to the collection; of the monographs 84 came as gifts and the remaining 76 were purchased. The total number of monograph titles in our library database has now reached 9,000. 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 2,150 items, evenly distributed beween Ottoman and Byzantine subjects.

C. DLIR AND JSTOR CAORC-sponsored IT projects have brought major improvements to the library over the past few years. First came access over the internet through DLIR, then the scanned journals on MERJ, and most recently this past spring a hook-up to the JSTOR database. While access to JSTOR has not brought in a flood of new users, as I initially thought might be the case, it is heavily used by resident scholars and by our more regular outside users. We intend to continue improvements in IT areas, with access to further on-line resources being planned.

D. LIBRARIAN At the same time we will also be investing in upkeep of the basic collection itself. We’ll start by the most obvious--hiring a librarian, beginning in January, 2008. For forty-some years the ARIT Istanbul library has been the responsibility of the Director and his assistant, something they put energy into when they could find the time (and the money) between other responsibilities. Now, with the growth of the library--around 13,000 volumes now--and of library usage, with the extra IT resources, and the time necessary to maintain them, and with the growth in other demands on the Director’s time, the time and energy to keep the library up even in this style just isn’t there. It has begun to show in routine upkeep matters—binding, labelling, inventory and regular re-shelving—which are no longer adequately pursued.

We hope that with a new librarian we will not only be able to stay on top of routine upkeep, but more importantly that we will be able to improve other aspects of its operation, providing for the first time limited reference service, expert maintenance and expansion of our IT resources, a more deliberate and rational acquisitions policy, and the possibility of collaborative interaction with other libraries in the city.

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. I wish therefore to express a very warm thanks to 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. (p. 12)

3. LECTURES

The Institute hosted a total of twelve lectures over the course of the year. The lecture season ran from late October to mid-December in the fall, and from late April to early July 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, mostly academics, in the Istanbul area. Attendance at lectures varied from a low of 15 to a high of about 50 persons.

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Fall Lectures

Gail Dexter Lord, President, Lord Cultural Resources Management, Ontario, “The Museum as a Civic Institution”

Elâ Kaçel, PhD Candidate in Architectural History and Theory, Cornell University, “Information or Culture: The Intelligentsia and the Dissemination of Postwar Modernism in Turkey”

Jeremy Walton, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Chicago “Civil Devotion in Secular Space: Considering Turkey's Islamically-Oriented Vakıfs”

Amy Singer, Dept. of Middle Eastern & African History, Tel Aviv University, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University “Free Lunches and Philanthropy in the ”

İpek K. Yosmaoğlu, Dept. of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison "A Leap of Faith: The Nationalization of Religion in Ottoman Macedonia at the turn of the Twentieth Century"

Eliot Bates, Ethnomusicology, UC Berkeley "Ethnic and Musical Aspects and Consequences of Pan-Karadeniz Popular Music"

Spring Lectures

Heath Lowry, Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies, “In the Footsteps of Haci Evrenos: a Re-interpretation of the Ottoman Conquest of Western Thrace”

John Curry, History Dept., University of Nevada “Insights on Provincial Ottoman Social and Cultural Life as Reflected in Sufi Manuscript Writings: the Sha’baniyye order in Kastamonu”

David Katz, History Department, Tel Aviv University, and Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University “Saving Lives, Collapsing Civilizations: Arnold Toynbee in the Turkish War of Independence”

Paul Magdalino, History Dept., University of St. Andrews, and History Dept., Koç University “Political Prophecy and Divination in 12th Century Byzantium”

Victor Ostapchuk, History Dept., University of Toronto “The Spade, GPS, and the Defter as Tools in the Study of the Ottoman Black Sea Frontier Fortress of Akkerman”

George Gawrych, History Dept., Baylor University “Women in the Thought of Şemseddin Sami”

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4. FELLOWSHIP AWARDS AND THE DERNEK

A. DERNEK & DERNEK FELLOWSHIPS After years of discussion, the Board of the Türk-Amerikan İlmi Araştırmaları Derneği finally agreed in the fall that they would revert to former practice and advertise post-doc awards not in particular fields, but rather, as with the doctoral level awards, announce them in all fields of the social sciences and humanities. The Fellowship Committee, consisting of Ara Altun, Nur Balkan-Atlı, Alan Duben, Günay Kut, and Zafer Toprak reviewed 25 applications, 19 at the doctoral and 6 at the post-doctoral. A total of 31,000 Turkish Liras (ca. $23,664 at the time of distribution in June) was distributed to 12 Turkish scholars at Turkish Universities. One award was made at the post-doctoral and 11 at the doctoral levels. Three of these fellowships were supported by the Turkish Cultural Foundation in .

A list of award winners and their projects is attached. (p. 13)

B. HANFMANN FELLOWSHIPS Entering its fifth year now, the Hanfmann and Mellink fellowships competition rotated back to Ankara. Information on this year’s competition can be found in the Ankara report. Of the four grantees from the year before, three scholars, Dr. Sedef Çokay-Kepçe, Yasemin Yılmaz, and Dr. Bahattin Çelik finished their research during this FY, and submitted very positive reports on the work they accomplished and the value of their grant to their careers. One scholar, Baki Demirtaş of Ankara University, had problems getting permission to leave his position at the university for six months, and has to postpone his use of the grant. We expect he will finally be able to commence his research abroad in the spring or summer of 2008.

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 2004/05 came to $18,299. Just under half, $8,914, went to administrative support to pay for the salary and taxes of Semrin Korkmaz, followed by $8,500 for fellowship support, and the rest for director’s travel and computer upgrades.

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 by Prof. Cemal Pulak, Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M

5 ARIT ISTANBUL REPORT 2006-2007 Boat trip to Islands in the Marmara Sea: Heybeliada, Sivriada and Yassıada with Prof. John Freely

A tour to Divriği and Kemaliye (Eğin), led by Prof. Scott Redford, Georgetown University, Director of RCAC, and a member of the ARIT Board of Directors

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 Architecture

A tour of The Historic Buildings of by Prof. John Freely, Dept. Of Physics, Boğaziçi Univ.

A half day tour of Ottoman Graveyards led by Prof. Edhem Eldem, History Department, Boğaziçi University

A four day trip to Venice, including Piazza San Marco, Castello Quarter, Correr Museum etc., led by Prof. John Freely

A long weekend trip to Azerbaijan, Baku, Shamakhi, Maraza and Shaki, led by an Azeri expert

Repeat tour of Maritime Remains Uncovered in recent Excavations near Yenikapı led by Prof. Cemal Pulak, Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M

A trip to Urfa & Nemrut Dağı, led by Dr. Turgut Saner of ITÜ.

(Three other advertised trips were undersubscribed and did not get off the ground.)

For the second year in a row the Friends’ Annual Dinner (the 23rd) was held in early June at the residence of Consul General Deborah Jones. The dinner was held outside in the inner garden with tables set up on the cobbled driveway. It was a beautiful setting and, as with the previous year, the Friends were fortunate to have a warm and windless evening. There were close to 140 persons in attendance, including numerous Friends as well as prominent members of the business and diplomatic communities. U.S. Ambassador Ross Wilson came from Ankara for the occasion and spoke briefly about the importance of what ARIT does for scholarly and cultural interchange. Our keynote speaker was Nuri Çolakoğlu, chairman of the committee in charge of organizing activities for the celebration of Istanbul as a European Capital of Culture in 2010. NuriBey gave us his nostalgic memories of an old Istanbul and his vision a new Istanbul for 2010. The evening was not only extremely pleasant, but, for the first time, the Friends achieved their long-held goal of raising $10,000. 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

A. BUDGET The FY financial report summarized below shows expenses for the Istanbul Branch to have come to $275,949. This figure represents the total monies disbursed by the Istanbul Branch (which means it does not include the Director’s salary, most library purchases, and other expenses paid for by the U.S. office), including fellowship moneys disbursed through the Branch, money forwarded to the Ankara Dernek, monies paid on behalf of CAORC for conferences, as well as all expenses covered by FARIT donations (programs, equipment, salaries, and fellowships).

6 ARIT ISTANBUL REPORT 2006-2007 In general, Turkish operating costs continued to rise for us as the the dollar has fallen against the Turkish Lira. This has hit us especially hard in wages and taxes, which have doubled in four years, from a total of $24,427 in 2002-2003 to $47,948 in this FY year. The dollar’s decline has been especially dramatic over the last 12 months: in Jan 2007 the $/TL exchange rate was 1.41 whereas on Jan. 1, 2008 it was 1.16, a loss of 18%. On top of that inflation in Turkey is running at 8-9%. Given that there is a time lag before the effects of the dollar depreciation are fully felt, our costs in dollar terms can be expected to rise even more dramatically during the 2007-2008 FY year.

SUMMARY BUDGET (converted from TL)

Total Income------$280,071 Local Income------$48,506 Institute generated------$30,207 (Notably: Hostel income------$28,773) FARIT donations------$18,299 Sent from US Office & CAORC------$231,565

Total Expenses------$276,088 Rent & rent tax------$46,952 Wages, taxes (inc. librarian, & severance) --- $48,948 Library------$1,171 Utilities------$5,139 Office------$3,491 Hostel upkeep------$4,315 Dernek Fellowships------$23,664 Hanfmann Fellowships--- $90,000 FARIT Fellowships------$8,500 Lectures, Receptions------$940 Summer Language Program------$3,046 To Ankara Dernek (pass through)--- $28,745 CAORC/Hollings payments (pass through) $9,811 Miscellaneous (bank, tips, travel, etc)------$1,227

It should be noted that the rent and rent tax figure above does not include the rent tax for the last nine months of the contract year (which was paid in July 2007)—when that tax is added the total cost for rent comes to $52,088.

A detailed breakdown of income and expenses is appended to this report. (p. 14)

B. EMPLOYMENT In April of 2007, Gazel Hanım retired for health reasons after 22 years of part-time and (in recent years) full-time employment with ARIT. She had developed problems with her knees which prevented her from carrying out her duties as housekeeper, and for all practical purposes had been on leave since late 2006. She has been replaced by Turkan Hanım, who started working for us one day a week five years ago, and who will now become full time, working from 8:30- 14:00 five days a week. Turkan was paid a daily rate through the end of this FY (shown as “extra cleaning” in the attached budget). She was registered with Social Security and began formal full time employment in July 2007.

7 ARIT ISTANBUL REPORT 2006-2007 C. RENT This year is the last of a five year rental contract where the rent went up every year by $1,000. It has now reached $46,000 (not including taxes). For the year 2008 we will re-negotiate in December, 2007, and given the tremendous loss in the value of the dollar, coupled with the boom in the Istanbul housing market, we have been told to prepare for a significant raise in the rent.

7. OTHER ACTIVITIES

A. SUMMER LANGUAGE PROGRAM The Fulbright Hays Group Projects Abroad-sponsored ARIT program in advanced-level Turkish language study at Boğaziçi University entered its 23th year with 17 fellows this past summer. With the expansion of the State Department’s Critical Language Scholarships Program, a record number of 34 fellows also came to Turkey to study at the elementary and low intermediate level. Boğaziçi could only house a little less than half of these, and others went to Ankara and Alanya, each site offering a very different living and learning experience, and each of them appreciated by the students for their different merits. Fortunately for us, Sylvia Önder came out to help with the program coordination in Istanbul and took most of the load off the Center’s back. The Institute was used for student orientations and evaluations, and ARIT put together cultural programs, notably a tour with John Freely, and at the end of the summer, a flotilla of dolmuş boats to the castles at the end of the Bosphorus, led as always by Robert Ousterhout, and culminating in a fish feast and swim across the Bosphorus between Anadolu Kavak and Rumeli Kavak

B. CAORC/THE HOLLINGS CENTER The informal collaboration between the Hollings Center and ARIT has continued over the past year. ARIT helped the Center with the logistics of a workshop in January. This was a follow up to a previous workshop on the rise of independent universities in the Muslim world. The meeting convened presidents and senior administrators from independent universities in muslim countries as well as from the U.S. to discuss the role of independent universities in their respective countries, the impact of American style education in their development and the prospects for partnership and exchange with U.S. universities. It remains unclear when and where the Hollings Center will actually set up shop in Istanbul, but their committment to basing most programmatic activity in this city has already lead to several interesting workshops and exchanges over the past three years, and we expect even more activity in the years to come.

C. ARIT REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE In the early fall of 2006, both ARIT branches received notice that their applications to be legally recognized as the representative offices (Temsilcilik) of the Philadelphia-based American non-profit organization ARIT had been accepted. This means that from now on ARIT’s premises in Istanbul and Ankara and the activities that take place in them will no longer be the legal responsibility of the Dernek--that responsibility will be taken over by the new rep. offices and their officially recognized directors, Baha and I. The Dernek will continue to run our fellowship programs here, but other activities will be in our own name. At a practical level the immediate issues that we have had to deal as a result of this change have been the transfer of rental, utilities and other contracts into the rep. office’s name. This process began in the winter and was mostly completed by late spring. As of April our premises have been rented in the rep. office’s name, and Gulden, Semrin and Turkan have been working for ARIT, not the Dernek.

8 ARIT ISTANBUL REPORT 2006-2007 Although the premises are now in our name, both the Turk Amerikan Ilmi Araştırmaları Derneği and the new FARIT Dernek (BADD) will continue to show our address for official purposes. A notarized agreement (muvafakatname) between the ARIT Rep. Office and each of the Derneks states that they may use the premises for this purpose. I should like to repeat here again that in the long run the acquiring of a new legal status will have substantial positive effects. It has already put our operations on a more rational basis, and should now open up possibilities for a larger public visibility, for increased fundraising locally, and ultimately for increased programmatic activity.

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. As always, I taught the seminar at ARIT. 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 pleasures of being a branch director for ARIT lies in the variety of people you get to meet 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 work 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, 2006 – JUNE 30, 2007

Reem Abou-El-FADL Oxford University Camile ADANG Free University-Berlin Iris AGMON Ben Gurion University-Israel Seven AĞIR Princeton University Aysun ALBAYRAK Sorbonne University-Paris Elizabeth Ross ALEXANDRIN University of Manitoba Stephanie ARBELOVSKY Cornell University Yaron AYALON Princeton University Nouraine BEN AZZOUNA Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes-Paris Yuval BEN-BASSAT University of Chicago Emily BURNHAM (CAORC) Katherine BUTLER Pennsylvania State University Radha DALAL University of Minnesota Robert DANKOFF University of Chicago Eddie DUTTON CAORC Suraiya FAROQHI Ludwig-Maximilians Uni. Michael FEATHERSTONE University of Paris Rory FINNIN Victor A. FRIEDMAN University of Chicago George GAWRYCH Baylor University Anne Marie GOLLA Georgetown University Steven Chase GUMMER Georgetown University Leslie HALL Ryerson University, Toronto Travis HASKINS University of Montana Maureen JACKSON University of Washington (FULBRIGHT/HAYS) Kelda JAMISON University of Chicago Charlotte JIROUSEK Cornell University Paul KALDIJIAN University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire Karen KERN Daniel KSELMAN Duke University Eleanor LEE Guest of Scholar Davidson MacLAREN Hartford Seminary Michael MEEKER University of California, San Diego James MEYER (ARIT/CAORC) Nancy MILFORD Hunter College Amy MILLS University of South Carolina Michael NICHOLSON University of Pennsylvania (FULBRIGHT) Sylvia WING ÖNDER Georgetown University Victor OSTHAPCHUK University of Toronto

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Brian PEASNALL University of Delaware (Ashley TAFEL & Jessica BACON) Judith PFEIFER Intisar RABB Princeton University Matthew RASCOFF Harvard University Rebecca RATLIFF American University (FULBRIGHT) Michelle RAU University of Chicago Melissa ROSENZWEIG University of Chicago Ariel SALZMAN Queens University - Canada Sabine SCHMIDTKE Free University-Berlin Gabriel SKOOG University of Washington (FULBRIGHT/HAYS) Aikaterina STATHI Panteion University- (AEGEAN) Darin STEPHANOV UCLA (MELLON) Allison STRAUBER Institute of Fine Art, NYU Reed SUMMERS METU - Ankara Malissa TAYLOR UC-Berkeley (FULBRIGHT/HAYS) Meline TOUMANI Boston University Jeffrey WALKER University of Texas Samuel A. WHITE Columbia University Michael Brett WILSON Duke University Avner WISHNETZER Tel Aviv University Paul YOUNG UC-Berkeley Fariba ZARINEBAF-SHAHR Northwestern University Dror ZEEVI Ben Gurion University

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ISTANBUL BRANCH LIBRARY DONORS

JULY, 2006 – JUNE, 2007

Individual Donors

Gonca Gökalp Alpaslan Gary Leiser Mehmet Beşirli Heath Lowry Michael Bonine Banu Mahir Richard Chambers Bruce Masters Bahattin Çelik Mehmet Ali Neyzi Yücel Dağlı Hidayet Nuhoğlu Robert Dankoff Sylvia Wing Önder Geza David Erendiz Özbayoğlu Fatma Arzu Demirel Marcie J. Patton Teoman Duralı Charles Perry Suraiya Faroqhi Türkan Rado Michael Featherstone Jamil Ragep Caroline Finkel Ariel Salzman Rossitsa Gradeva Jane Taylor Leila M. Harris Lucienne Thys-Şenocak Victoria Holbrook Fatma Ürekli Machiel Kiel Jeffrey Walker Gülgün Köroğlu Madelin Zilfi

Institutional Donors

Cervantes Institute – Istanbul Elginkan Foundation Foundation for Middle East and Balkan Studies Gaziantep Municipality Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality I.E.T.T. – General Directorate Kiptaş A.Ş. Robert College Vehbi Koç Foundation

12 ARIT ISTANBUL REPORT 2006-2007 2007 Dernek Fellowship Awards

The Dernek Fellowship Committee, composed of Prof.Dr. Ara Altun, Prof.Dr. Nur Balkan- Atlı, Prof.Dr. Alan Duben, Prof.Dr. Günay Kut and Prof.Dr. Zafer Toprak, met on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 16:00 to consider 25 fellowship applications.

TheCommittee decided to fund the following applications :

Dr. Şuhnaz Yılmaz Turkish American Relations: a New International Relations, Koç University Perspective

Ayşe Akalin Exchanging Affect: The Migrant Sociology Dept., Uludağ University Domestic Workers Market in Turkey

Emin Alper Politics, Students and the Educated Ataturk Institute, Boğaziçi University Middle Classes in Turkey

Bahadır Apaydın, The Effect of the Capitulations on the Law Faculty, Kadir Has University Ottoman-Turkish Legal System

Mehmet Beşikci Between Self-Mobilization and History Department, Boğaziçi University Resistance: Popular Mobilization and Militarization in Ottoman Society during the First World War

Mehmet Zafer Danış Factors affecting Quality of Life for the Dept of Social Services, Hacettepe Elderly Living in Institutions: an Area University Study from Ankara

Pelin Gürol The Imperial Museum Building in Architectural History, METU Istanbul: Architecture, Archaeology and Museums in the late Ottoman Period

Nurçin İleri Lighting the Streets in the late 19th Ataturk Institute, Boğaziçi University Century Ottoman Empire and Changes in Everyday Life

Şahika Karaca The Life of Emine Semiye—Her World Education Faculty, Kayseri University and her Works

Sevgi Parlak, The Organization and Structure of the Art History Dept., Istanbul University Inner Castle in Pre-Ottoman Anatolian Turkish Cities

Nevin Zeynep Yelçe, The Making of Sultan Süleyman: A Study History Department, Sabancı University of Processes of Image-Making and Management

Şahin Yıldırım The Evolution and Development of Art History Dept, Trakya University Tumulus Burial Sites in Eastern Thrace

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ARIT-ISTANBUL BUDGET

FISCAL YEAR 2006-2007 totals of monthly figures based on average monthly TL/$ conversion rates

INCOME

Hostel Income 28,773.28 Photocopy 414.97 Telephone and fax 47.67 E-Mail 566.14 TSA 94.44 Sales (books etc.) 0.00 Other/donations 310.52

TOTAL LOCAL INCOME 30,207.03

FROM U.S. (Phil. & CAORC) 231,565.00

TOTAL INCOME 261,772.03

EXPENSES

RENT (plus taxes) 46,952.31

EXTRA CLEANING & TIPS 7,388.22

WAGES ARIT Assistant 14,851.40 Cleaning Woman 4,944.56 Income taxes 936.31 Social Security 2,226.37 Other taxes, severance pay, etc. 6,237.00 TOTAL 29,195.64

OFFICE Telephone & Fax 1,943.19 Postage 250.54 Office Supplies 211.51 Repairs, Services 883.58 New Equipment 0.00 Other 203.08 TOTAL 3,491.91

HOSTEL Upkeep (routine) 3,494.93 Repairs, painting, etc. 520.21 Purchases 300.06 TOTAL 4,315.20

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UTILITIES Gas (includes natural and bottled.) 3,139.40 Electricity 1,371.08 Water 629.21 TOTAL 5,139.68

LIBRARY Books 588.15 Binding, shelves, supplies, etc 185.38 Librarian(s) 3,450.00 E-Mail Service 397.79 TOTAL 4,621.33

PROGRAMS Fellowships (Hanfmann & Dernek) 113,664.00 Dernek-related (w. Ankara transfers) 28,745.00 Lectures, Receptions 940.25 Turkish-Language Program 3,046.58 Other 0.00 TOTAL 146,395.82

MISCELLANEOUS Bank Expenses & misc. Fees 477.92 Director's Travel 0.00 Other Discretionary (CAORC conf.) 9,811.22 TOTAL 10,289.14

TOTAL EXPENSES IN DOLLARS 257,789.26

FY FARIT DONATIONS

Scholarly Support 8,500.00 fellowship Library Support 0.00

Conference and Lecture Support 0.00

Hostel and Office Support 135.00 computer upgrades Administrative Support 9,664.65 for the FARIT Assistant + $750 travel In-kind donations--estimated value 0.00

DOLLAR VALUE OF DONATIONS 18,299.65

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