M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • Epidemics, urban life, and sanitation :|Pera and the end of the plague 
    Karaağaçlıoğlu, Fezanur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Istanbul had been struck continuously by plague epidemics ever since the Black Death broke out in 1347. This thesis is about Pera in the early nineteenth century which constitutes the last stage of the history of plague ...
  • Palace architecture and iIts rhetoric in Seljuk Anatolia :|the conceptualization of Kubadabad 
    Gürgen, Işık. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The palace complex of Kubadabad near Beyşehir - regarding its good state of preservation - provides an ideal object for the study of palace architecture and the (courtly) rhetoric under the reign of the Rum-Seljuk Sultan ...
  • Ilyas Arabi's Risale-yi Istanbul :|perceptions of architecture and legend through a sixteenth-century Ottoman text 
    Yıldız, Turhan Ozan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This study investigates the perception of Istanbul’s legendary past and Hagia Sophia by early modern Ottoman authors. In doing so, the main source of this study is a mid- 16th century text that is about the legends of ...
  • The visibility of Late-Ottoman rulers :|the ideological transition of urban representation in Southern Arab provinces 
    Atay, Onur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This study questions how the power shift in the Late Ottoman Period effected the representation of rulership in the cityscape, via architectural, urban and infrastructural interventions in the Southern Arab Provinces, ...
  • Text and image in dialogue :|revisiting Iron age neo-Hittite stelae 
    Şen, Sait Kutay. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Monumental Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions proliferated in the southeastern Anatolia and northern Syria in the Iron Age, after their emergence at the end of the Bronze Age in Hittite Anatolia. These inscriptions were ...
  • Yedikule lettuce as urban legend :|environmental imaginary of Istanbul in the early twentieth century 
    Kafadar, Muzaffer Suna. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis explores the emergence of Yedikule lettuce, an endemic plant of Istanbul, as a legendary figure of the city. Drawing on literary sources from print media and fiction of the early Republican era, as well as ...
  • Remember every time, not just once :|historical geography and social memory in Turkey and Armenia 
    İşcier, Mustafa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    With the effect of modernization in the last to hundred years we see that nowadays modern nations face the risk of losing their collective identity as a result of globalization. As a reflex of this, it is an undeniable ...
  • Boys in court :|questioning child abuse cases between 1860 and 1865 
    Oruçoğlu, Erkan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis explores how the sexual offenses committed against the male children were handled by the Ottoman courts and the society at large in the Ottoman lands between the years 1860 and 1865 together with the regulations ...
  • Imperial visions and narrations: |British imperialism in India and its reflections in literature 1857-1947 
    Göksel, Sema Emel. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1997., 1997.)
    This study attempts an analysis of novels written about the British India of the 1857-1947 era.The novels have been chosen according to their authors' personal experience in India and the times and themes of their concern. ...
  • The Byzantine perception of India in late antique literary sources 
    Adıgüzel, Bilal. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This study focuses on the Byzantine perception of India according to the descriptions found in a selected group of late antique literary sources. Belonging to diverse literary genres and describing different aspects of ...
  • Agrarian change in Bosnia under Habsburg rule :|1878 - 1914 
    Gürlek, Ayşe Sena. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This study aims to examine the changing nature of the agrarian relations in Habsburg-occupied Bosnia. To this end, it analyses the administrative and legal practices of the Austro-Hungarian administration regarding landed ...
  • 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 ...

Search Digital Archive


Browse

My Account