“The difficulties of the global COVID pandemic have shown us just how important the Global Centers are for our continuing communication as members of the Columbia community. While quarantine and travel restrictions have forced us to postpone much of our work in the region, at the same time we have found the importance of the Global Centers growing as venues for the exchange of ideas among faculty and students both in New York, and at all the regional centers.”
Zainab Bahrani, Istanbul Center FAC Chair
The Istanbul Center is governed by a board of directors of Columbia University senior administrators, and receives guidance and direction from the Office of Global Centers and Global Development in New York and a Faculty Advisory Committee. The Committee provides academic and intellectual input, leadership, and advice regarding the Center’s activities and plans, supports its engagement with faculty, as well as helps identify, expand and advance scholarly exchange, and create innovative and sustainable programming at and through the global center.
The Faculty Advisory Committee is chaired by a faculty member who serves a renewable three-year term and is viewed as a thought-leader by other members of the faculty. Committee members represent a wide spectrum of faculty interests and disciplinary areas, and are selected because of their commitment to globalization and their familiarity with, and interest in, the region’s nations, cultures, and issues.
Zainab Bahrani
Research Interest
Emily Bell
Yanis Ben Amor
Jason Bordoff
Research Interest
Zeynep Celik
Carol Gluck
Research Interest
Ayten Gündoğdu
Research Interest
Sarah H. Cleveland
Marianne Hirsch
Nihal T. Isiksel
Valentina Izmirlieva
Research Interest
Rashid Khalidi
Research Interest
Holger A. Klein
Research Interest
Vishakha N. Desai
Tunc Sen
Research Interest
