Prof. Dr. Tülay Artan

 
Style of Art : Academic / art historian
Branch of Art : Ottoman historiography, studies of the Ottoman elite and their households, 17th to 18th century art, architecture and material culture
Art Profile :

Tülay Artan is a Professor of Ottoman History at Sabanci University, Istanbul. Her areas of specialization include historiography, studies of the Ottoman elite in Istanbul and the lives of its members and material culture that surrounded them in the eighteenth century.

After graduating from the Architecture Department at the Middle East Technical University (METU), Artan completed her Master′s degree at her alma mater in 1982. She obtained her Ph. D. degree in History, Theory and Criticism from the Department of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1989. Dr. Artan taught at the Boston Architectural Center in 1989-1990; Istanbul University in 1991-1999; Mimar Sinan University in 1992-1993; Koç University in 1993-1994; and Harvard University in 1997.

Prof. Dr. Artan is the author of a section on “Art and Architecture,” in Cambridge History of Turkey, vol. 3, Suraiya Faroqhi ed. (Cambridge 2006). Among her recent publications are: “Objects of Consumption and Mediterranean Interconnections, 1450- 1650,” in The Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, Gülru Necipoğlu and Barry Finnbarr Flood eds., New York NY :Wiley- Blackwell, 2016;  “The Politics of Ottoman İmperial Palaces: Vakıfs and Architecture from the 16th to the 18th Centuries,” in The Emperor’s House: Palaces from Augustus to the Age of Absolutism, Michael Featherstone, Hansgerd Hellenkemper, Jean-Michel Spieser, Gülru Tanman, and Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt eds., Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2015, 365-408; “Die institutionelle Trennung der Höfe von Großvezier und Sultan: Zu Rekrutierung und Ausbildung der neuen Funktionsträger,” in Die Anatomie frühneuzeitlicher Imperien – Herrschaftsmanagement jenseits von Staat und Nation: Institutionen, Personal und Techniken, Stephan Wendehorst ed., Berlin: Oldenbourg Wissenshaftsverlag/Walter de Gruyter, 2015, 121-142.

Prof. Dr. Artan is a founding member of the Social and Economic History Foundation in Turkey. In 2004 she received a grant from Ministére de la Jeunesse de l’Education Nationale et de la Recherch, and worked as a Visiting Professor at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France.

Selected publications:
Royal courts in dynastic states and empires: a global perspective, Duindam, Jeroen and Artan, Tülay and Kunt, Metin (eds.), Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, July 2011.
Artan, Tülay (2011), "Ahmed I’s hunting parties: feasting in adversity, enhancing the ordinary," in Princeton Papers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol.16, 93-138.
Artan, Tülay (2011), "The making of the Sublime porte near the Alay Köşkü and a tour of a grand Vizierial Palace at Süleymaniye," in Turcica, Vol.43, 145-206.
Artan, Tülay (2011), "18th century Ottoman princesses as collectors: Chinese and European porcelains in the Topkapı Palace Museum," in Ars Orientalis (Globalizing Cultures: Art and Mobility in the Eighteenth Century), Vol.39, 113-146 (AHCI).
Artan, Tülay (2008), "A book of kings produced and presented as a treatise on hunting," in Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, Vol.25, 299-330 (AHCI).
Artan, Tülay (2006), "Osmanlı elitinin yemek tüketiminin bazı yönleri (Değişken bir yüzyılda temel gıdalar, lüks tatlar ve tadımlıkların izinde II)," in Yemek ve Kültür, Vol.7, 48-95.
Artan, Tülay (2006), "Osmanlı elitinin yemek tüketiminin bazı yönleri (Değişken bir yüzyılda temel gıdalar, lüks tatlar ve tadımlıkların izinde I)," in Yemek ve Kültür, Vol.6, 36-62.
Artan, Tülay (2005), "Benim tanıdığım Stefanos Yerasimos: bir İstanbul tarihçisi," in Toplumsal Tarih, Aralık, No.144, 64-73.
Artan, Tülay (1999), "18. yüzyıl başlarında yönetici elitin saltanatın meşruiyet arayışına katılımı," in Toplum ve Bilim, Vol. 83, 292-322.

Reference: myweb.sabanciuniv.edu


Foundation : Sabancı University
Web Site : http://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/tulay/
Email : tulay@sabanciuniv.edu
City : Istanbul
Country : Turkey
Preferred Lang. : Turkish / English
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