Neşe Gurallar

NEŞE GURALLAR

Prof. Gurallar is currently teaching at the Department of Architecture in TED University, Ankara, Turkey. In 2021, she was a professor at Atılım University and prior to that, in 2017-2021, at the Department of Architecture, Gazi University. In 2017-2018, being a recipient of a scholarship from TÜBİTAK, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, she was an associate of Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States; in July of 2017, a short term fellow at Koç University, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations; in 2016, she has enrolled at University of Florida; in 1999-2000, sponsored by TÜBİTAK, Prof. Gurallar was a visiting researcher at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; and in 2002 she received a grant from Goethe Institute in Schwabisch Hall, Germany. Prof. Gurallar received her Ph.D. at METU (Middle East Technical University), Ankara, in 2003. She is the author of the books Halkevleri: İdeoloji ve Mimarlık [People’s Houses: Ideology and Architecture] and Emergence of Modern Public Space from a Traditional Mosque Courtyard: Early Nineteenth Century İstanbul- Beyazıt. She has written on multiple occasions in professional journals, authored chapters in collective publications, gave public talks in universities, cultural institutions, and professional organizations in the field of architecture, and was a guest on TV and radio shows. Her continuing research focuses on Russian modernization in East Anatolia in the context of ideology, politics, public space, modernity, architecture, and urban history.