Ph.D. Students

Folded Corner: Adem
Günaydın
gunaydin[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Özer Ergenç
Ottoman History


Research Area
Application of the Malikâne System in Aleppo
Folded Corner: Ahmet
Türk
turk[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Halil İnalcık
Ottoman History


Research Area
The Struggle for Eastern European Steps in the 17th Century
Folded Corner: Ayşegül
Avcı
avci[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Edward Kohn
US. History


Research Area
Turkish-American Relations: The Development of American Image in Turkey and its Influence in Turkish Culture
Folded Corner: Ayşegül
Keskin Çolak
akeskin[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Paul Latimer
European History


Research Area
Chivalric Literature as an Active Propaganda of the Knightly Ideal
Folded Corner: Can Eyüp
Çekiç
caneyup[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Akif Kireççi
Ottoman History


Research Area
Ottoman Delegates in 1889 Orientalists' Congress in Stockholm and Christiania
Folded Corner: Doina
Zugravescu
doina[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Oktay Özel
Ottoman History


Research Area
Representations of an Empire in the Mediterranean: The Portuguese in a Comparative Perspective
Folded Corner: Duygu Ulaş
Aysal
aysal[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Oktay Özel
Akif Kireççi
Ottoman History


Research Area
Electrification of Istanbul: 1878-1923
Folded Corner: Grigor A.
Boykov
grigor[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Halil İnalcık
Ottoman History


Research Area
Settlements, Population and Socio-Economic Life in Ottoman Central Upper Thrace, 15th-17th c.
Folded Corner: Harun
Yeni
haruny[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Halil İnalcık
Ottoman History


Research Area
Changing Demographic and Socio-Economic Features and Yürüks in Ottoman Southeastern Macedonia (from mid-15th to 17th c.)
Folded Corner: Kürşad Urungu
Akpınar
akpinar[]bilkent.edu.tr
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~akpinar

Advisor: Evgenia Kermeli
Özer Ergenç
Ottoman History


Research Area
Fetva as a Source for Ottoman Studies
Folded Corner: Levent 
İşyar
leventi[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Edward Kohn
US. History


Research Area
Decolonization and Cold War: The Middle East, 1945-1956
Folded Corner: L. Sevinç
Küçükoğlu
sevinck[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Oktay Özel
Ottoman History


Research Area
Socio-economic history in the Ottoman Empire in the 17th and 18th centuries
Folded Corner: Mariya
Kiprovska
mariya[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Halil İnalcık
Ottoman History


Research Area
Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Frontier Nobility: Mihaloglu Family’s Military Career (14th-16th c.)
Folded Corner: Melike
Tokay
tokay[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Edward Kohn
US. History


Research Area
Edith Kermit Roosevelt: A Victorian Woman Wavering between a Progressive Husband and Masculine Stepdaughter
Folded Corner: Muhsin
Soyudoğan
muhsin[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Oktay Özel
Ottoman History


Research Area
The Transformation of Timar System in Post-Suleymanic Era: A Comparative Study of Center & Frontier
Folded Corner: N. Işık
Demirakın
nahide[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Oktay Özel
Ottoman History


Research Area
Urban Transformation in 19th century Ottoman Empire
Folded Corner: Naile
Mağıltaş
magiltas[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: David Thornton
European History


Research Area
Social Ties within a Locality: The Evidence from the Wills
Folded Corner: Nazlı Esim
Mergen
mergenn[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Halil İnalcık
Ottoman History


Research Area
The Conquest of Koca-Eli Region in the age of Orhan Gazi
Folded Corner: Nergiz
Nazlar
nazlar[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Evgeni Radushev
Ottoman History


Research Area
Janissaries in the Ottoman Balkans from 16th century to 18th century
Folded Corner: Nihan 
Altınbaş
nihana[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Akif Kireççi
Ottoman History


Research Area
Women and Power in Legal Discourse in early 20th century Ottoman Society
Folded Corner: Nuray
Oğuz Ocaklı
noguz[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Halil İnalcık
Ottoman History


Research Area
Demography of Nigbolu Sancak in the 16th century
Folded Corner: Nuri
Aksu
nuri[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Halil İnalcık
Ottoman History


Research Area
Social Life in the 18th century according to Court Registers
Folded Corner: Polat
Safi
safi[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Oktay Özel
Ottoman History


Research Area
Teşkilât-i Mahsusa or Umur-i Şarkiye Dairesi: An Enquiry into its Administrative and Operational Characteristics (1913-1918)
Folded Corner: S. Erdem
Sönmez
erdemsz[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Oktay Özel
Ottoman History


Research Area
Fuad Köprülü and the Rise of Modern Historiography in Turkey 
Folded Corner: Seda
Erkoç
serkoc[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Paul Latimer
European History


Research Area
The English Politics and the Writings on Turks in Early Modern England
Folded Corner: Selim
Tezcan
selimt[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Paul Latimer
European History


Research Area
Turcia and the Franks: The Relations of the Turkish States in Anatolia with the Latin States in the Middle East, 1098-1243
Folded Corner: Yalçın 
Murgul
murgul[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Oktay Özel
Ottoman History


Research Area
An Attempt to Recontextualise the Tanzimat Reforms in the Light of International Transformation between 1856-1876
Folded Corner: Zeynep
Kocabıyıkoğlu
Çeçen
zeynepk[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Paul Latimer
European History


Research Area
Crusading Thought of the late Fourteenth and early Fifteenth centuries
Folded Corner: S. Sena Hatip
Dinçyürek
shatip[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Oktay Özel 
Ottoman History


Research Area
Ottoman-British Diplomatic Relations in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries
Folded Corner: Gürer
Karagedikli
gürerk[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Özer Ergenç 
Ottoman History


Research Area
The Jewish Community of Adrianople (Edirne) in the Seventeenth Century
Folded Corner: Suat
Dede
suat[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Oktay Özel 
Ottoman History


Research Area
The Semi-Nomadic Tribes settled in the Central Anatolia in the 19th century and the Process of their Adaptation to Sedentary Life
Folded Corner: Elif
Boyacıoğlu
boyacio[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Paul Latimer
European History


Research Area
Ghosts of the Medieval World; Tangibility and Otherness
Folded Corner: Elvin
Otman
otmane[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Mehmet Kalpaklı
Ottoman History


Research Area
The Ottoman-Venetian Cultural Relations in the 16th century
Folded Corner: Esra
Demirci Akyol
esrade[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Akif Kireççi
Ottoman History


Research Area
Turkish Migration to Syria from Hatay and its Environs
Folded Corner: Fahri
Dikkaya
dikkaya[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Halil İnalcık
Ottoman History


Research Area
The foundation of the Ottoman Empire: New Perspectives based on the New Evidence derived from Historical Archaeology
Folded Corner: Fatih
Durgun
fatihd[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: David Thornton
European History


Research Area
English Historical-writing in the 15th century
Folded Corner: Fatih
Tokatlı
fatiht[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Edward Kohn
US. History


Research Area
Turkish-American Military Cooperation and Transformation of Turkish Military in the Cold War, 1947-1964 
Folded Corner: F. Doğuş
Özdemir
fatmad[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Edward Kohn
US. History


Research Area
Class Aspects of the McCarthy Era: The Cases of Joseph McCarthy, Richard Nixon, and Orval Faubus
Folded Corner: F.  Özden
Mercan
fmercan[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Paul Latimer
European History


Research Area
Christian-Ottoman Encounter in the Late Medieval Period
Folded Corner: Giesele M. 
Marien
marien[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Halil İnalcık
Ottoman History


Research Area
Environment and Social Relations in Istanbul in the 16th,17th and 18th centuries
Folded Corner: Nil Erkey
Tekgül
tekgul[]bilkent.edu.tr


Advisor: Özer Ergenç 
Ottoman History


Research Area
Ottoman Intellectual History in the 17th century