Faculty

FULL-TIME FACULTY

Prof. Dr. T. Elvan ALTAN

(B.Arch., M.A., METU; Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton)

tomris@metu.edu.tr

https://avesis.metu.edu.tr/tomris

Fields of Interest: 19th and 20th Century Architecture, Modern Architecture, Architecture in late Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey, Social Production of the Built Environment, Architectural Historiography

Biography and Selected Publications

Prof. Dr. Lale ÖZGENEL

(B.Arch., M.A., METU; Ph.D., METU) 

olale@metu.edu.tr

https://avesis.metu.edu.tr/olale

Fields of Interest: Ancient Domestic Architecture and Daily Life, History of Domestic Architecture, Gender and Privacy Studies, Rural Architecture, History of Tennis and Tennis clubs in turkey, Educational Architecture

Biography and Selected Publications

Prof. Dr. Ali Uzay PEKER

(B.A., Istanbul University; M.A., Boğaziçi University; Ph.D., Istanbul Technical University)

peker@metu.edu.tr

https://avesis.metu.edu.tr/peker

Fields of Interest: Early Islamic, Seljuk and Ottoman Architecture, Occidentalism and Orientalism in Architecture, Thirteenth Century Anatolia, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Baroque and Rococo), Exoticism, Iconography and Symbolism in Islamic and Christian Architecture, Cosmology (ancient and medieval), Ottoman Archaeology 

Biography and Selected Publications

Assist. Prof. Dr. Ekin PİNAR

(B. Arch., M.A., METU; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania)

ekinp@metu.edu.tr 

https://avesis.metu.edu.tr/ekinp

Fields of Interest: History of Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture; Cinema Studies; Site-Specific Art; Museum Studies and Institutional Critique; Expanded Cinema and Moving Image Exhibition Practices and Spaces; Audio-Visual Essay and Historiography; Narrative Space; Sense of Place in Cinema; History and Theory of Animation; Global Turn, Race, and Art and Architectural Histories; Gender and Sexuality Studies

Biography and Selected Publications

Prof. Dr. Belgin TURAN ÖZKAYA

[Coordinator - Graduate Program in History of Architecture]

(B.Arch., M.Sc. in Restoration, METU; Ph.D., Cornell University)

belt@metu.edu.tr 

https://avesis.metu.edu.tr/belt

Fields of Interest: Modernism/Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Architecture, Nineteenth-Century Culture of Travel, Collecting and Display, Twentieth-Century Italian Architecture, Theories of Vision and Visuality, Gender Theory, Historiography

Biography and Selected Publications

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pelin YONCACI ARSLAN

(B.Arch., M.A., METU; Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles) 

pyoncaci@metu.edu.tr

https://avesis.metu.edu.tr/pyoncaci

Fields of Interest: Urban History, Byzantine Architecture and Urban Landscape, Urban Mobilities, Digital Humanities, Creative Mapping Techniques, Historical Data Curation and Research Exhibitions, 3D Digital Reconstructions of Historical Sites, Multimedia Maps populated with spatial narratives. 

Biography and Selected Publications

 


PART-TIME FACULTY

Nahide Işık DEMİRAKIN (BSc. ODTÜ; M.A., Ph.D., Bilkent University)

Urban History, Historiography, Cultural History, 19th Century Ottoman Empire, Modernization

dupeyker@gmail.edu.tr

Suna GÜVEN (B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University)

Roman and Byzantine Architecture, Latin Architecture in Cyprus, Memory, Acculturation, Imaging

sunag@metu.edu.tr

Jale ERZEN (B.F.A., M.F.A., Art Center College of Design L.A.; Ph.D., ITÜ)

Ottoman Aesthetics, Ottoman Miniatures, Ottoman Architecture of the 15th-16th Centuries; Modern Art, Turkish Art General, Art Criticism; Aesthetics; Environmental Aesthetics

erzen@arch.metu.edu.tr