Zeynep Celik

Zeynep Çelik (B. Arch. Istanbul Technical University; M. Arch. Rice University; PhD. University of California, Berkeley) is Sakip Sabanci Visiting Professor at Columbia University and distinguished professor emerita at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Her publications include: The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century (1986—winner of the Institute of Turkish Studies Book Award, 1987), Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth Century World’s Fairs (1992), Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space (1993—co-editor), Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers under French Rule (1997), Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914 (2008—winner of the SAH Spiro Kostof Book Award, 2010), Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City through Text and Image (2009—co-editor), Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914 (2011, co-editor) Camera Ottomana: Photography and Modernity in the Ottoman Empire, 1840-1914 (2015—co-editor), About Antiquities: Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire (2016), and Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient: A Critical Discourse from the East, 1872-1932 (2021). She served as the editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2000-2003) and wrote numerous articles on cross-cultural topics. She co-curated “Walls of Algiers,” the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (May-October 2009) and “Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914” at Salt, Istanbul (November 2011-March 2012), and “Camera Ottomana” at Koç University (2015). Her current research focuses on transformations to Middle Eastern cities from the late Ottoman to the early Mandate eras. She is also co-curating an exhibition, “Palestine from Above,” for Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, West Bank. Professor Çelik has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2004), American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1992, 2004, and 2011). National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2012), Doctor Honoris Causa, Bosporus University, 2013 Vehbi Koç Award (Istanbul, 2013), the Sarton Medal (Ghent University, 2014), Giorgio Della Vida Award (UCLA, 2019), and Tamayouz Award (2019).