From 2006 onwards, numerous junior researchers have received a fellowship from the Netherlands Institute in Turkey for a research stay in Istanbul. In addition, several senior scholars have spent periods between three months and half a year at the NIT as Visiting Scholar. The listing below gives an overview of the topics of research addressed by Fellows and Visiting Scholars.
Frederik Schack (Leiden University)
Everyday Empire: A household Archaeological approach to regional centres in LBA North Central Anatolia
John Turco (University of Groningen)
Rituals in Space: Reconstructing funerary ritual through gifts and bones
Gabriel Sel (Leiden University)
Tekkes in Transition: Tracing Istanbul's Social, Cultural, and Political Metamorphosis through Visual Narratives
Ebru Kurt Özman (University of Amsterdam)
Ediz Hazır (University of Groningen / Charles University in Prague (cotutelle))
Valentin Szántai (Leiden University)
How did the inhabitants of the province Asia negotiate their identity in the Roman Empire?
Selin Tuzgöl (Leiden University)
Local Identities and Transnational Notions: Foreign Intervention in LGBTI+ Activism in Turkey
Alvise Cecchetti (Leiden University)
Aslıhan Öztürk (University of Amsterdam)
Selim Ölçüoğlu (Leiden University)
The Changing Attitudes Towards Mountains in Ottoman Empire and Turkey, A Case Study: Mountaineering
Leyla Hepsaydir (Technische Universiteit Delft)
Tanya Sieiro van der Beek (Groningen University)
Arrival of the Attalids - Regional identity and local impact of Pergamon religion politics
S. Nesli Gül Durukan (Independent Researcher and Artist)
The Impact of Contemporary Artists, who Moved from Turkey, on Dutch Art Ecosystem
Thom Brongers (Groningen University)
S. Berk Metin (Leiden University)
Maḥmūd II, Centralization, and Religious Change in the Ottoman Empire: Islamic
Material Heritage in Istanbul (1808-1839)
Safoora Kamjan (Groningen University)
Bridging Neolithic Turkey, Greece, and Bulgaria through foodways: integrated zooarchaeological and stable isotope data
Nuri Kurnaz (Leiden University)
Burcu Köken (Technische Universiteit Delft)
Contending Architectures: Practice, Policy, and Discourse in Mimarlık, 1963-1980
Lennart W. Kruijer (Leiden University)
The palace of Samosata as a globalizing assemblage: innovating objects in Late-Hellenistic Commagene
Stefania Stouri (University of Amsterdam)
Fragmentation & cultural identity: The historical erasure of Ottoman – Greek heritage
Ahmed Nuri (University of Amsterdam)
The anxieties of modernity: Literary subjectivities, temporality and identity in the Turkish novel
Ketty Inannantuono (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Marijn Mannien (Leiden University)
Minem Sezgin (Recipient of the Stimuleringsfonds/ Creative Industries Fund NL)
Joost Snaterse (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Urban patronage and social welfare in the early Byzantine Mediterranean
Banban Wang (Leiden University)
Coping with the new Empire: Aphrodisias as the provincial capital
Erdem Çolak (University of Amsterdam)
The deconstruction of national images via contemporary art in Turkey from
1990s to the present
Laura Brouwers (Maastricht University)
Understandings and use of the "Çanakkale Spirit" narrative in contemporary Turkey
Jeevan S. Panesar (Leiden University)
Illicit antiquities in the Eastern Mediterranean region (Turkey & Cyprus)
Sozan Toksöz (University of Amsterdam)
Robert Feller (University of Groningen)
Connecting Thrace: Cross-border cooperation in the Bulgarian-Turkish border region
Tsjalline Boorsma (University of Amsterdam)
Key Tengeler (Leiden University)
Jorien Cousijn (TU Delft)
Common ground: design for a contemporary Caravanserai in Istanbul
Jaimee Comstock-Skipp (Leiden University)
Burak Fıçı (Leiden University)
Jake Benson (Leiden University)
The Art of Abrī: Paper Marbling in the Early Modern Islamic World
Francesca Slim (Groningen University)
Enis Dinç (University of Amsterdam)
Özge Calafato (University of Amsterdam)
Modernity, Memory and Identity: Vernacular Photographs from Turkey
Bart Rendering (ACASA (UvA/VU))
Deepti Rao (University of Groningen)
Film as a means of Arts Education: its influence on self-conceptualization in
middle childhood
Lisette Scholtens (Leiden University)
Remzi Çağatay Çakırlar (Leiden University)
Dirk van der Meij (TU Delft)
BEACHLIFE ISTANBUL - Subtraction and addition: the Kid, the Dog and the Tourist
Michèle Meijer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Richard Staring (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Visiting Scholar
The meaning of Turkey for Turkish Dutch youngsters, and other research
Noëlle Steneker (University of Amsterdam)
Tanya Sieiro van der Beek (Utrecht University)
Zara Toksöz (University of Amsterdam)
Konstantina Kapsali (Leiden University)
Soil Chemistry analysis of Neolithic floor sediments in Barcın Höyük
Beril Çakır (University of Amsterdam)
Geographies of Assimilation and Resistance: Urban Space, Memory and Identity in Diyarbakır
Ian D. Morris (University of Amsterdam)
The ‘royal court’ between Byzantium and early Islam: Difference, diffusion or convergent evolution?
Sean Patrick Smyth (Leiden University)
Sâmiha Ayverdi: the incongruity of the modern in Republican Turkey
Hüseyin Şen (Utrecht University)
Ottoman Science in the Sixteenth Century: Taqi al-Din's life and work
Eva Mol (Leiden University)
Dies van der Linde (Groningen University)
Daan Huberts (Radboud University)
Turkey: Agonism and the roots of the republic
Thalia Lysen (VU University Amsterdam)
Judith Zijlstra (Leiden University)
Laurentia Schreiber (Freie Universität Berlin)
Romeyka, an endangered minority language of the Black Sea region
Anouk Willemsen (Radboud University)
Isabel Kimmelfield (Radboud University)
Robin van Oene (Leiden University)
Ruben Sibon (Leiden University)
Alternative media and citizen journalism in Turkey
Phil Bosch (artist in residence)
Janric van Rookhuijzen (Radboud University)
Alexander Wielemaker (Leiden University)
Valentijn Vermeer (Münster University)
Sanne Ursem (University of Amsterdam)
Enno Maessen (Utrecht University)
Maria Romano (Maastricht University)
Byzantine and Ottoman heritage in contempory Istanbul: differential treatment?
Evrim Emir (University of Amsterdam)
Laurentien de Gelder (University of Amsterdam)
Alex Kemman (Utrecht University)
Water, power and conflict along the Tigris
Maaike Wentink (Leiden University)
Urban renewal, cultural heritage and authenticity in Tophane
Frouke Schrijver (University of Birmingham)
Tayfun Karabağlı (Utrecht University)
Simone Pekelsma (Leiden University) & Sieta Neuerburg (independent)
The touristic rediscovery of Sufi rituals in contemporary Turkey
Nicola Verderame (Leiden University)
Fountain building in the Late Ottoman Empire
Max Hermens (Nijmegen University)
Analyzing contemporary travel guides on Turkey
Marieke Wissink (Maastricht University)
Transnational social networks and migration strategies of African migrants in Turkey and Greece
Krijn Hoogendorp (Leiden University)
Daily life in Azerbaijan (1918-1938)
Joost van den Oever (Nijmegen University)
Apocalypticism and the 1453 fall of Constantinople
Jeroen Vlug (VU University Amsterdam)
Negotiating religion and secularism in Turkish society
Irena Ajdinovic (University of Amsterdam)
Representations of Osman II and Mustafa I in Balkan literature
Freek Janssens (University of Amsterdam)
Street markets in Istanbul
Elske Kroondijk (Groningen University)
Music therapy and Sufism
Elise van der Laan (University of Amsterdam)
The sociology of beauty in Turkish fashion magazines
Annelies Kuijpers (University of Amsterdam)
The anthropology of modern mosque design
Andrea Meuzelaar (University of Amsterdam)
The representation of muslim immigrants on Dutch television
Sjoerd Jeroen Moenandar (Groningen University)
Meetings with muslims in Dutch literature
Rosanne Baars (University of Amsterdam)
Jean-Louis Rigo, 18th c. secretary of the Dutch embassy
Rolien Hoyng (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
Intersections of technology and the city
Reinier Meijering (Utrecht University)
Seleucids in Miletos and Didyma
Erik van Lit (McGill University)
15th c. philisophical texts from the Ottoman Empire
Edith Ammeraal (Utrecht University)
Gentrification in Tophane
Annelies Bakker (Maastricht University)
Contemporary art galleries in Tophane
Seçkin Özdamar (Maastricht University)
Urban spaces and the formation of national memory
Sanne van Poppel (Nijmegen University)
Imperial ideology and the representation of power in Late Antique Constantinople
Elisha van den Bos (VU University Amsterdam)
Neolithic habitation practices in northwestern Turkey
Rik Vaessen (Sheffield University)
Western Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age
Logan Sparks (Tilburg University)
Religious sites shared by muslims and non-muslims
Karin Schuitema (Leiden University)
Feasting in the Aegean and Near East (3000 BC-650 BC)
Günay Uslu (University of Amsterdam)
Ottoman perspectives on Troy and Schliemann
Cindy Jansen (artist in residence)
Urban influence on nature: video art and photography
Christina Williamson (Groningen University)
Civic identity in Asia Minor in the Hellenistic period
Sieta Neuerburg (University of Amsterdam)
Educational programmes for primary schools in Istanbul’s museums
Joris Oddens (University of Amsterdam)
In the footsteps of a 17th c. Dutch tourist