Sibel Zandi-Sayek

Associate Professor

Office: Andrews Hall 210A
Email: [[ssayek]]
Office Phone: 757-221-2527

Education

Ph. D.              University of California, Berkeley, 2001
M. Arch           University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1992
M. C.P.            University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1992
B. Arch            Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 1988

Areas Of Specialization

Modern architectural and urban history, cultural landscapes and comparative urbanism

Academic Positions

Assistant and Associate Professor (2009), College of William and Mary, 2002-present

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture Brown University 2001-2002                       

Courses Taught

Modern Architecture and Urbanism; Nineteenth Century Architecture; Renaissance and Baroque Architecture and Urbanism; Art History Survey I; Architecture, Public Space, and Memory; Orientalism and Visual Culture; Methods of Art History; Ottoman Istanbul and its World; Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul; Post-Colonial Perspectives on Architecture and Urbanism.

Grants and Fellowships

National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellowship, 2007-2008

MIT-Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Postdoctoral Fellowships, 2006-2007

Faculty Summer Research Grant, College of William & Mary, 2003, 2004, 2006

Mellon Research Grant, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1997, 1994

Humanities Graduate Research Grant, University of California at Berkeley, 1996

Block Grant, University of California at Berkeley, 1993-1996

Fulbright, Institute of International Education, 1989-1991

Research

Recent and forthcoming publications:

A World in Flux: Public Space and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Izmir/Smyrna (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2011).

“Ambiguities of Sovereignty: Property Rights and Spectacles of Statehood in Tanzimat Izmir.” In Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space, ed. Y. Batsaki, S. Bazzaz, and D. Angelov, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2011).

“Poetry, Pleasure, and Building: Architectural Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman World,” Review of Shirine Hamadeh’s The City’s Pleasures. In Eighteenth-Century Life 34, no. 3 (Fall 2010): 135-139.

“Urbanism and Urbanization: The Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia.” In Encyclopedia of the Modern World, ed. Peter N. Stearns (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 470-473.

“Bir Kentin Değişen İmgeleri: 17. Yüzyıl Sonundan 19. Yüzyıla Gezginlerin Gözünde İzmir” with F. Câna Bilsel. In Sanat ve Çevre, ed. J. Erzen and P. Yoncacı (Ankara: TMMOB ve Sanart, 2007), 139-150.

“Fêtes et processions: Rituel et politique dans la deuxième moitié du dix-neuvième siècle.” In Smyrne, la ville oubliée? Mémoires d’un grand port ottoman, 1830-1930, ed. M.C. Smyrnelis (Paris: Éditions Autrement, 2006), 159-170.                                    
“Orchestrating Difference, Performing Identity: Public Rituals in Nineteenth-Century Izmir.” In Hybrid Urbanism: On the Identity Discourse and the Built Environment, ed. Nezar AlSayyad.  (Westport: Praeger, 2001), 42-66.

“Struggles over the Shore: Building the Quay of Izmir, 1867-1875.” In City and Society: An Annual Review of the American Anthropological Association, vol. XII, no.1, Spring 2000, 55-78.