Bayram Balcı
Bayram Balci holds degrees in political science and in Arab and Islamic studies from the Political Studies Institute of Grenoble and Aix-en-Provence. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Turkish Islamic movements and their missionary activities in post-Soviet Central Asia. He was a Jean Monnet post-doctoral fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, where he worked on Central-Asian communities in Saudi Arabia and their contribution to the re- Islamization of the region. Further in his career, he was a scholar at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies in Istanbul and set up the French Institute of Caucasian Studies in Baku, while researching on relations between the Chia and the Sunni Muslims in Azerbaijan and in Iran. From 2006 to 2010, he was the director of the French Institute of Central-Asian Studies (IFEAC) in Tashkent. From 2012 to 2014, he was a visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. Bayram Balci’s current research focuses on Islam and politics in the former Soviet Union and on Turkey in its regional environment (Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Middle East).
Kumru Arapgirlioğlu
Graduated from the Department of City and Regional Planning at Middle East Technical University in 1983 and completed her master’s degree at Florida State University in 1986. During that time, she worked as a management consultant at Florida Economic Development Center in 1985-86 in FSU-USA; and after coming back to Ankara, Turkey, initiated her office and worked as a planning consultant between 1986-1999. In 1999 she was invited to work full-time at Bilkent University and she received her Ph.D. from the Faculty of Public Relations and Political Sciences, Ankara University in 2004. She has several academic awards and grants, and she owns one of the 2017 the 2017 the 2017the 2017the 2017the 2017 Bilkent Distinguished Teaching Awards. She has served as an Acting Chair in the Academic year of 2017-2018. Her research interests include all range of environmental studies from theory to practice, human attitude, participation and decision making in relation to urban environments, conflicts and ethics. She served as a member of the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO, Committee of Bioethics in 2004-2014. She is one the founder members of Science and Scientific Philosophy Circle (BİLFEL), between the years 2000-2016. As a member of both, she actively took place in many scientific and organizational committees of international and national conferences, seminars and meetings with a wide range of topics; some of the topics include climate change and environmental ethics, social responsibility and health in cities, meetings on bioethics. Her specific research areas are: European Landscape Convention; European Urban Charter; local governments, environmental management, ethics and public lands. Recently, she works on sustainability issues as regards to social responsibility and public health; health and urban open spaces; landscape integrity and human well-being; food security, productivity, cities, and urban agriculture as a regenerative tool for transforming the cities.
Martin Godon
Currently: Archaeologist-Prehistorian, in charge of IFEA’s scientific editions. Science and Academic Cooperation Attache, Embassy of France 2014:2018: Head of the Archaeological Unit IFEA (Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes) The « French Institute of Anatolian Studies” is a public research entity under French Foreign Affairs and CNRS supervision. - Heading Archaeological teams through administrative and diplomatic policies. - Performing strategic planning of French archaeological activities in Turkey. - Enhancing academic collaborations between Turkey and France. - Public/Private fundraising for IFEA’s archaeological programmes. - Organizing International conferences and formation workshops. Since 2015: Director of the French Foreign Affairs Archaeological programme “Melendiz” - Scientific collaboration with Istanbul University and financial support related to Tepecik-Çiftlik’s excavations, Central Anatolia, Turkey. Since 2015: - IFEA Associated researcher, CNRS Cépam Associated researcher. - Associated Researcher in the Obsidian Use Project, Direction : L. Astruc (IFEA) (ANR-French Research Agency). - Archaeological field director of Qarassa Northern Tell excavations (Southern Syria French Foreign Affairs Archaeological programme, dir. Frank Braemer). - Post-doctorate TÜBİTAK-Turkey Research Fellowship Programme for International Researchers.
Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver
She received her BFA degree from Bilkent LAUD in 2006 and her MA degree from Bilkent University’s Department of Archaeology in 2010. She pursued her PhD degree in the field of archaeology at Brown University (Providence, RI) between 2010-2016 as a Fulbright grantee, and worked as a faculty member in the same university upon her graduation. Her PhD dissertation focused on how pre-modern empires functioned in their borderlands, and explored the impact of imperial mechanisms on space and material culture in the particular example of the Hittite Empire. She has been an active fieldwork member in archaeological projects since 2007. Since 2010, she has been a senior member of the Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Research Project team, directed by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ömür Harmanşah (University of Illinois at Chicago). In 2019 she started directing the Polatlı Landscape Archaeology and Survey Project.
Néhémie Strupler
Bionote: Néhémie Strupler did his PhD in Archaeology jointly at the University of Strasbourg and at the University of Münster. Before coming to IFEA, Néhémie worked at the German Archaeological Institute in Istanbul, was a post-doctoral fellow at ANAMED in Istanbul and Walter Kolleg in Bern. His dissertation, ‘The Lower City of Boğazköy during the Second Millennium BC’, examined the evolution of social patterns of the domestic quarters, at the critical moment when the site became the political capital of the Hittites. Néhémie is an Open Science and Free Software advocate and he is enthusiastic about developing theory and methods to explore archaeological data through open and reproducible standards.
Nezih BAŞGELEN (Arkeolog-Editör)
1958 yılında İstanbul’da doğdu. 1978’de alanında ülkemizdeki ilk popüler süreli yayın olan Arkeoloji ve Sanat Dergisi’ni çıkardı ve bugüne kadar başarıyla yayınını sürdürttü. 1982’de kurduğu Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, yurdumuzun zengin tarihi eserleri, eski uygarlıkları hakkında araştırma, inceleme, el kitapları, kataloglar, gezi rehberleri gibi 21 temel dizi üzerinden 800’e yakın başvuru eserinin yayımını gerçekleştirmiştir. 1986’da Türkiye’nin tarihi doğal ve turistik değerlerine dönük hizmet veren görsel doküman arşivini (Celsus Picture Library) oluşturdu. Ülkemizin zengin arkeolojik potansiyelini sistematik bir şekilde fotoğraflarla belgeledi. Bu konuda saygın bir başvuru kaynağını oluşturdu. Türkiye ile ilgili eski seyahatname, resim, belge, kitap ve haritaları topladı. Yabancı ülke müzelerindeki ve arşivlerindeki Türkiye’den giden eserleri belgelemeye çalıştı. Çocuklara yönelik tarihi eserleri ve eski uygarlıkları sevdirmeyi amaçlayan eğitici boyama kitapları projesini başlattı. Ülkemiz insanına eski kentleri ve harabeleri tarihi ve doğal çevre değerlerini sevdirmeyi ve bilinçlendirmeyi amaçlayan kültür turlarını organize etti ve bizzat gerçekleştirdi. Yazdığı yazılar, verdiği konferanslar, yayınladığı kitaplar, düzenlediği etkinliklerle arkeolojinin ve eski eserlerin korunmasının ülkemiz kamuoyunda yer almasını sağladı. Trakya ve Anadolu’da özellikle Doğu Anadolu’da yaptığı araştırma ve inceleme gezilerinde pek çok bilinmeyen kalıntı, anıt ve arkeolojik yerleşmeyi belgeleyerek bilim dünyasına tanıttı. Arkeoloji, sanat tarihi, etnoğrafya, turizm, tarihi ve doğal çevrenin korunması hakkında yayınlanmış bine yakın çalışması vardır.
Semih ÇELİK
Graduated from Marmara University, Department of Political Science and International Relations in 2008. After finishing his M.A. studies at Bilgi University, Department of History, he began his PhD. research at the Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute in Florence in 2010. He defended his PhD. thesis on climate change, famines, empire-building and social reactions in early-nineteenth century Anatolia in September 2017. Between September 2016 and March 2017 he was a visiting scholar at the Center on Social Movement Studies (COSMOS), Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence. From September 2017 onwards he worked at Koç University as a post-doctoral research fellow for two years. He is a post-doctoral fellow at Koç University Research Center on Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) since September 2019 and continues working on environmental history of Anatolia between 16-20th centuries.
Ayşe Jale (Mekiş) Diker
Graduated from TED Ankara College and received her bachelor’s degree at Ankara University High School of Press and Publication (Faculty of Communication). She started her MA in Political Science and Public Administration at METU. Started to work while studying at the university. Worked as Ankara Director and research assistant at AGT Araştırma ve Geliştirme in the period 1982-1984. Worked at MTV Milliyet Televizyon Video A.Ş. in the period 1984-1985 as continuity, voice assistant, cameraman, assistant director and negotiations with sponsors respectively. In the period 1985-1992, she acted among the founders of first export department of Sümerbank Holding A.Ş which was a state economic enterprise making production across Turkey with 47 factories and acted as Export Manager. She worked as General Manager in the period 1992-1993 at Erkat Ticaret A.Ş which has representations abroad and providing consultancy in the field of environment, energy and automotive sectors. In the period 1993-1977, she started to work abroad, namely in Italy, England, Turkic Republics and Russia, and she acted as Deputy Board of Director at Almara Ticaret ve İnşaat A.Ş. Since 1991, she established D.A Dış Ticaret A.Ş with its foreign partners located in England and Malta which focuses of investment advisory services and business development in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Russia; acts as mediator for firm partnerships; provides services in Turkey on finance and foreign partnership and makes import and export. Since February 2019, she has been working as an Assistant Project Coordinator in the EU Project at IFEA. She played volleyball for 10 years at school team and professional teams. She was included in Turkish Volleyball History Encyclopaedia to be published with the title “Volleyball’s Unforgettables”. Since 1985 she is a member of Ankara Soroptimist Club of Soroptimist Clubs Federation of Turkey established in Turkey in 1948. In the past she acted as Head of Project Commission and Scholarship Commission in the Federation, and she acted in various positions in the Club including acting as the President. She is a founding member of IMEÇE established in Ankara in 2015 (Human, Premises, Environment and Energy Association). Currently she holds the position of member of Board of Directors in the association. Since 2013 she acts as the President of Geleceğe El Ele Komitesi (Moving to the Future Hand-in-Hand Commission), one of the voluntary commissions of TED (Turkish Education Association) providing services to bursaries. In the period 1992-1997 she worked in the management of Ankara Branch of Turkish American Businessmen Association (TABA) of which she is a member. In the period 1994-1997 she was a member of Switzerland Chamber of Commerce. In 1988 she acted as a member of Board of Directors of Aegean Exporters’ Association.
