Sibel Bozdogan
Lecturer in Architectural History
Department of Architecture
Sibel Bozdogan holds a professional degree in architecture from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (1976) and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (1983). She has taught architectural history and theory courses at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1986-1991), MIT (1991-1999) and the GSD/Harvard University (part-time since 2000). She has also served as the Director of Liberal Studies at the Boston Architectural Center (2004-2006) and currently teaches in the new Graduate Architecture Program of Bilgi University in Spring semesters. Her interests range from cross-cultural histories of modern architecture in Europe, the US, Mediterranean and the Middle East to critical investigations modernity, technology, landscape, regionalism and national identity in Turkey and across the globe. She has published articles on these topics, has co-authored a monograph on the Turkish architect Sedad Hakki Eldem (1987) and co-edited an interdisciplinary volume, Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey (1997). Her Modernism and Nation Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic (University of Washington Press, 2001) has won the 2002 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award of the Society of Architectural Historians and the Koprulu Book Prize of the Turkish Studies Association. Currently she is involved in a large research project focusing on the architectural and urban history of Istanbul between 1910 and 2010.