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Prof. Dr. Zeynep Celik completed her doctoral degree at the University of California, Berkeley. She works as Professor of architecture in the College of Architecture and Design at 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 Society of Architectural Historians Spiro Kostof Book Award, 2010); and Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City through Text and Image (2009—co-editor), as well as articles on cross-cultural topics.
Prof. Celik served as the editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2000-2003). She co-curated an exhibition “Walls of Algiers” at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (May-October 2009). A co-edited volume Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in Ottoman Empire 1753-1914 was published in 2011; accompanied by a co-edited exhibition under the same title for SALT in Istanbul. Prof. Dr. Çelik has been the recipient of numerous fellowships, including John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2004), and American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1992, 2004, and 2011).
Reference: njit.edu, rbhs.rutgers.edu
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