Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü: Recent submissions

  • The exhortations of George Trapezuntios and Cardinal Bessarion against the Ottomans :|Identities and representations 
    Avila, Agustin Rafael. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    During the last years of the Byzantine Empire and after its collapse, some Greek intellectuals became deeply concerned with the international affairs and the fate of their nation, and assumed the task of writing crusading ...
  • Belonging in a marginalized neighborhood :|a historical ethnography of Istanbul’s Okmeydanı 
    Yıldız, Demet. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis studies the contemporary history of Okmeydanı, an urban neighborhood in Istanbul which has a specific place in the history of urbanization in Turkey. Established as a gecekondu settlement during the rural-urban ...
  • The depiction of natural disasters in middle Byzantine histories (867-1204) 
    Kinaş, Özlem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis not only presents the natural disasters that occurred in the Byzantine Empire between 867 and 1204, as recorded in a group of selected Middle Byzantine narrative histories, but also analyzes the depiction of ...
  • Martha Jane Dalzel Riggs: An American missionary wife in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire 
    Korkmaz, Melisa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis explores the little known activities and writings of Martha Jane Dalzel Riggs, a missionary wife operating under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), during her active years from ...
  • Spatial and socio-cultural changes in Eyüp between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries 
    Gedikli Goralı, Naide. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    The district of Eyüp was one of the three largest extra muros settlements of Ottoman Constantinople/ Istanbul along with Galata and Üsküdar. Eyüp has received much attention in academia as a sacred site where a funerary ...
  • People and politics in eleventh-century Constantinople, 1025–1081 
    Savaş, Merve. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis examines the political repertoire of the people in eleventh-century Constantinople through rereading three main historical sources of eleventh-century Byzantine history–Michael Psellos’ Chronographia, Michael ...
  • Photography and the deportation of Ottoman Armenians during the first World War 
    Gülersönmez, İrem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis examines the photographic archive of the deportation of Ottoman Armenians during the First World War. The central objective of the thesis is to approach the photographs in question not solely as historiographical ...
  • From belief to religion: Understanding the Gion Festival as a politico-cultural phenomenon 
    Kaya, Oğuzhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis is an attempt to conceptualize the development of belief in the history of Japan. It does so through two ways, the first of which is a theological discussion of how systems of belief and later religion was ...
  • Ottoman court ceremonies and the multiple ceremonial center 
    Peksevgen, Şefik. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1996., 1996.)
    This study, titled as "Ottoman Court Ceremonial and The Multiple Ceremonial Center", attemptes to investigate the ceremonial borders of the Ottoman Court. The second concern of this study is to look for a ceremonial center ...
  • The formation of the alawite state through demarcation lines during the French mandate for Syria 
    Erdoğan, Egecan (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis aims to present a cross-section on the political-social relations of the mandate period, by considering an administrative border change that takes place between the State of Damascus and Alawite State in Syria, ...
  • Social mobility in Athens in the fourth century BC 
    Öztürk, Ümit. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    The purpose of this study is to investigate the dynamics of social mobility in the context of Athenian society during the fourth century BC. In contrast to the contemporary studies’ emphasis on occupation, class or wealth ...
  • An analysis of the Byzantine peasantry through eleventh- and twelfth-century narrative sources 
    Oğuz, Cahit Mete. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    The Byzantine peasantry has been traditionally analyzed through documentary sources and material evidence. This study attempts to complement the existing scholarship on the peasantry by showing how a perception-based, ...
  • Confessionalization of space in seventeenth-century Istanbul: The making of a Jewish Habitus 
    İdil, Erdem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis examines the interconnections between spatial practices and confessional politics in early modern Istanbul through a focus on non-Muslim communities. Addressing the correspondences amid the primary sources ...
  • Regime change in early Hellenistic Athens 
    Serbest, Nazım Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis undertakes a causal analysis of the political instability that the Athenian democracy experienced during the four decades after the death of Alexander the Great. The frequency of changes in the city’s political ...
  • The environment, institutions, and economy in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire: The imperial landed estates of Mihaliç (1840-1850) 
    Aşkın, Anıl. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    Being a micro historical study, this thesis examines the establishment and management of the imperial landed estates of Mihaliç, as an example of a state enterprise, for a decade between 1840 and 1850. Designed and established ...
  • An Ottoman historian‘s burden: Ziver History of Cyprus 
    Yıldırımtürk, Okcan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis is an attempt to analyse the development of late Ottoman historiography in a three-layered contextualisation with regard to its own historiographical legacy, its organic dialogue with European intellectual ...
  • The transformation of religious leadership in Alevi communities: A critical analysis of the Dede narratives 
    Karabulut, Derya. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    The main objective of this thesis is to analyze the narratives of Alevi dedes, religious leaders of the Alevi communities, who migrated from different parts of Anatolia to Istanbul. Through narratives of dedes on memory ...
  • Jewish converts refute Judaism: Conversions and religious polemic in the late fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire 
    Ağlar, Şaban. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis consists of a textual and contextual analysis of two Ottoman polemical treatises directed against Judaism in the time of Bayezid II. In their works, the author of Risāla al-hādiya, Abd al-Salam, and the author ...
  • Built heritage, culture and nation: Ali Saim Ülgen (1913-1963) 
    Aytuğ, Beste. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis examines the construction of the conceptions of heritage, culture and nation during the Early Republican period through the archive of Ali Saim Ülgen in SALT Research. Ali Saim Ülgen, as an architect, ...
  • African slaves in the 19th-century Ottoman Empire 
    Özdemir, Özgül. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis examines the life stories of enslaved African people throughout the 19th century Ottoman Empire in the light of archival and fictional texts. Orthodox historical literature on the institution of Ottoman ...