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CV.            

Education

2024-2028*
PhD in History, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

Thesis:  Deep Mapping 'Meandering' Histories: Socio-ecologies of the ‘Menderes' River and the Imperial Smyrna-Aidin Railway
FASS Departmental Scholarship

2021-2023

MA in Design, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, TR

Thesis: Critical Perspectives of Art on the Urgency of Redefining the Vital in the Anthropocene

TUBİTAK National Studentship Program for Master Students

2018-2019

BArch, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ETSAM, Madrid, ES
Erasmus Exchange Scholarship

2014-2020

BArch, Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul, TR

1884 Vakfi Undergraduate Scholarship​

Professional Experience

August-September 2025

Architectural Assistant

Lancaster University, Faculty of Architecture, Lancaster, UK


2022-2024

Research Assistant

Istanbul Medeniyet University, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Istanbul, TR

2021-2022

Designer, karşılaşmalar/Lamarts, Istanbul, TR

2020-2021

Designer, Creathing Digital Agency, Istanbul, TR

Publication

Lost Heritage: The Entangled Story of the Maltepe Venus and Marine Mucilage in the Sea of Marmara, EPOCH Magazine, December 1, 2025
https://www.epoch-magazine.com/post/lost-heritage-the-entangled-story-of-the-maltepe-venus-and-marine-mucilage-in-the-sea-of-marmara


Atmak ya da Atmamak, İşte Bütün İktidar Meselesi Bu! [To Throw or Not to Throw, That’s the Power Question!], in Halının Altındakiler: Antroposen, Atık ve Sürdürülebilirlik [Those Under the Carpet: Anthropocene, Waste and Sustainability], edited by Ö. Oğuzhan, Istanbul: Istanbul Medeniyet University Press, 2023.

https://artimu.org/assets/books/halinin-altindakiler-antroposen-atik-ve-surdurulebilirlik.pdf

Conference Presentation

Tracing the Sound of Seikilos: Imperialism, Landscape Transformation, and Heritage Displacement in Western Anatolia, AnatoLinks: Connections Within and Beyond Ancient Anatolia, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, December 4-5, 2025

 

Sanatçı Pierre Huyghe’un Çağdaş Ekosistemlerinde Antroposen Söylemini Yeniden Düşünmek [Rethinking the Anthropocene Discourse in Contemporary Ecosystems of the Artist Pierre Huyghe, Poedat Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, April 7-9, 2023


 

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