After completing his bachelor's and master's degrees at Istanbul University, Department of Prehistory, Karul completed his PhD at the Free University of Berlin in 2000 on a DAAD scholarship. After completing his PhD, Karul worked as an archaeological editor for Atlas Magazine, and in 2002 he joined the Department of Prehistory as an assistant professor; he was promoted to associate professor in 2006 and to professor in 2017. In 2005, Karul received a research fellowship at Harvard University and was a member of the editorial board of EJA (Journal of European Archaeology) between 2013 and 2016. He has been a member of the Colloquium Anatolicum of the Turkish Institute of Ancient Archaeological Sciences since 2014, the Editorial Board of the Journal of Archaeology of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA-AR) from 2009-2012 and since 2019, and the Archaeology Editor of the Magma Journal. Karul is also a member of the German Archaeological Institute, the Austrian Archaeological Institute, the ICOMOS Turkish National Committee and President of the Turkish Institute of Ancient Archaeological Sciences. Karul was President of the Istanbul Branch of the Archaeologists' Association between 2007 and 2015. Since 1989, Karul has been involved in prehistoric excavations and surveys in various parts of Anatolia. He was the director of the excavations at Aktopraklık Höyük in Bursa between 2004 and 2009, the scientific advisor of the excavations at Siirt Gusir Höyük between 2010 and 2014, and the director of the excavations at Göbeklitepe and Karahantepe since 2020. Karul, who is continuing the Aktopraklik Höyük research project with the Bursa Archaeological Museum, has been head of the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology at Istanbul University since 2019.

Prof. Dr. Gül Işın graduated from DTCF in 1988 with a BA in Classical Archaeology. She completed her master's thesis in 1991 and studied the ruins of the ancient city of Pednelissos in Pisidia. She received her doctorate from the Institute of Social Sciences at Akdeniz University in 1998 with a thesis titled "Patara Terracottas." She became an Associate Professor in 2004 and a Professor in 2009. Her area of ​​expertise is Hellenistic Period Coroplastics and Sculpture. She has also worked on the Lycian Civilization, Lycian plastics, and burial customs.

VASIF ŞAHOĞLU is Professor at the Department of Archaeology, Program for Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology at Ankara University. He is also the current director of Ankara University Mustafa V. Koç Research Center for Maritime Archaeology (ANKÜSAM). His research focuses on the prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology of Anatolia and the Aegean. He conducted excavations at the Bronze Age site of Çeşme - Bağlararası and is currently the director of land and underwater excavations at Liman Tepe in İzmir. Following the passing of Prof. Dr. Hayat Erkanal, he is now also coordinating the Izmir Region Excavations and Research Project (IRERP). He has been publishing on Bronze Age economies, maritime archaeology, Human responses to Natural disasters, long distance travel, contacts and trade issues, burial habits and pottery studies around the Aegean and Anatolia. 

He received his B.A. (Chemistry, 1997), M.Sc. (Archaeometry, 2000 - Phosphorous Analysis of Neolithic Çatalhöyük Sediments) and Ph.D. (Archaeometry, 2009 - Material Characterization of Ancient Mural Paintings and Related Base Materials: A Case Study of Roman Zeugma Archaeological Area) degrees from Middle East Technical University.
He became an instructor in the field of chemistry of restoration & conservation at Ankara University (2000-2013), Gazi University (2013-2018) and Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University (since 2018), where he directed the Historical Materials Research and Conservation Laboratory (MAKLAB). His academic studies are on archaeological material (clay/soil, stone/rock, ceramic, mortar/plaster/wall painting, glass, pigment/dye, etc.) analyses and their characterizations. He has worked as a researcher/archaeometrist or project group member of national (31 archaeological excavations and 5 field survey activities) and international (Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Egypt, Kazakhistan, Macedonia, Pakistan, Romania, Serbia, Sudan, Syria and Turkmenistan) restoration and conservation projects since 1995. He has been involved in material analysis studies in the Survey Restitution and Restoration Project of over 1200 national/international historical monuments and areas. He also specialized in "museum education" and carried out projects with various museums and institutions/organizations. He is also specialized in the field of museum education.
He is the member of European Geosciences Union (EGU, 2011-2012), The International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics (ICCM), International Council of Museum (ICOM, since 2012), Contemporary Drama Society (ÇDD, since 1999), Museum Association (since 2007), Museum Curators Association and Art Educators Society (SEDER, since 2011), Turkish Chemistry Society (since 2014), Ankara University Earth Science Application and Research Center (YEBIM, since 2009).
He was also honoured to national (2010 - National Architecture Chamber Award; Restoration & Conservation of Hasankeyf Zeynel Bey Tomb Projects – KABA Architecture Ltd.) and International (2012 - Europa Nostra Conservation Award; Milet Ilyas Bey Complex Conservation Projects – KABA Architecture Ltd. and 2021 - AR-MIPIM / Project Group Le Marché International des Professionnels de L'immobilier - Future Projects Awards; Mersin Old English Oil Factory Conservation Project - Onur Yüncü Architecture Ltd. & ANB Architecture Ltd. and Studio Nüve Ltd.) awards on restoration for cultural heritage as a group member.

Çimento esaslı malzememeler ve çimento kimyası, seramik esaslı malzemeler ve seramik kimyası, malzeme karakterterizasyonu , arkeolojik malzemelerin incelenmesi ve arkeometrik özellikler.

He was born in 1969 in the Araklı district of Trabzon. He completed his primary and secondary education in the same district. Subsequently, he entered the Department of Archaeology at Atatürk University's Faculty of Letters in 1988 and graduated in 1992.
In 1993, he began his career as a Research Assistant at the Van Lake Basin Historical Artifacts and Cultural Values Research and Application Center of Van Yüzüncü Yıl University. During his tenure, he completed his master's degree with a thesis titled "Urartian Belts in the Van Museum" at the Department of Archaeology of the Institute of Social Sciences at Yüzüncü Yıl University. In 1996, he transitioned to a Research Assistant position in the Department of Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology at the Faculty of Letters of Yüzüncü Yıl University.
He completed his doctorate in 2002 at the Department of Classical Archaeology of the Institute of Social Sciences at Atatürk University with a thesis titled "Urartian Belts." In 2003, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Archaeology of the Faculty of Letters at Yüzüncü Yıl University, becoming an Associate Professor in 2012 and a full Professor in 2017.
Currently, he has numerous academic publications on the Urartian Civilization, which is his area of expertise, and continues to supervise master's and doctoral students.

 CURRICULUM VITAE
Full Name: Prof. Dr. Rukiye Akdoğan
Education: Ph.D.
Mobile & E-Mail: rkyakdogan@gmail.com; rakdogan@cu.edu.tr
Degree Department/Program University Year
Bachelor Ancient Languages and Cultures / Faculty of Languages, History and Geography, Hittitology Ankara University 1986
Master's Ancient Languages and Cultures / Faculty of Languages, History and Geography, Hittitology Ankara University 1989
Ph.D. Ancient Languages and Cultures / Faculty of Languages, History and Geography, Hittitology Ankara University 2005
Associate Prof. Ancient Languages and Cultures / Hittitology Çukurova University 2013
Professorship Department of Archaeology Çukurova University 2019
Master's Thesis Title: Animal Names Appearing on the Basis of KBo XII-XXXIII
Ph.D. Thesis Title: The Hukkana/Huqqana Treaty in the Light of New Fragments
Foreign Language: German, UDS Score: 71.250, March 21, 2010
Positions Held:
Position Title Place of Duty Year
Museum Researcher, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations Ankara 1987 - 2010
Assistant Professor, Çukurova University Adana 2010 - 2013
Associate Professor, Çukurova University Adana 2013 - 2019
Professor, Çukurova University Adana 2019 - 2023
Administrative Duties:
• Head of the Department of Archaeology (01.04.2014 - 29.03.2023)
• Head of the Prehistory Division (2010 - 2023)
• Head of the Archaeology Division (Institute of Social Sciences) (2014 - 2023)
• Member of the Faculty Board (2014 - 2023)
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Prof. Dr. Abdüsselam Uluçam was born in 1953 in the Yenidoğan District of Beyşehir, Konya. He completed his primary and secondary education in Beyşehir and entered the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Letters, Istanbul University, in 1970. Graduating in 1974 with a thesis from the Turkish Art Chair, he completed his military service and worked at the Vakıflar Calligraphy Arts Museum (Istanbul) and the Mevlana Museum (Konya). In 1979, he passed the assistantship exam held by the Department of Art History at Atatürk University in Erzurum. For his doctoral thesis on "The Development of Turkish Architectural Works in Iraq," Uluçam traveled to Iraq in 1981 and completed his research in 1983. He received his Ph.D. in the same year and went on to earn the titles of Assistant Professor (1987), Associate Professor (1989), and Professor (1994).

He was born on August 1, 1964, in Sarayköy (Denizli). He graduated from the Department of Archaeology and Art History, Faculty of Letters at Ege University in 1986. He began working as a Research Assistant in the same department in 1988. He completed his Master's degree in 1991 and his Doctorate in 1999. He currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Faculty of Letters, Ege University.
He has authored chapters in various books and numerous articles on Turkish architectural history, including the books “Portals in Early Ottoman Architecture (1300-1500)” (Ankara 2001), “Muğla Mosques and Masjids” (Muğla 2013), and “Birgi, the World City” (İzmir 2019).

He completed his undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral studies in Ankara, at Hacettepe University. He is currently serving as the Chair of the UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage Monitoring Committee under the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO, as well as the Director of the Institute of Marine Sciences and Technology at Dokuz Eylül University.
He has worked as a visiting researcher and lecturer at Marburg University in Germany, Texas A&M University in the USA, Duke University, and Dumbarton Oaks, a research institute of Harvard University. Özdaş is a member of the advisory board of TINA – Maritime Archaeology Journal and the German journal SKYLLIS. Since 2019, he has also been part of the Editorial Board of the Turkish Academy of Sciences Archaeology Journal.
He has been leading the “Turkey Shipwreck Inventory Project – Blue Heritage,” initiated in 2014 with the support of the Presidency of Strategy and Budget, which is still ongoing. In addition, he directs the Bozukkale, Çamçalık, and Kızlan Ottoman Shipwreck Underwater Excavation Projects. Dr. Özdaş, a certified diving instructor, also holds certifications as a sonar and remotely operated vehicle (ROV) operator.

Associate Professor Dr. Haydar Yalçın serves as the Head of the Department of Management Information Systems at the Faculty of Business, Ege University. Dr. Yalçın has garnered attention for his significant contributions to the field, particularly through his works such as "Technology Mining: Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing" and "Forecasting Technological Positioning through Technology Knowledge Redundancy: Patent Citation Analysis of IoT, Cybersecurity, and Blockchain." As a member of the Omega Rho International Honor Society at Portland State University, Dr. Yalçın has made substantial interdisciplinary contributions throughout his academic career. He has served as a Visiting Scientist in the Department of Engineering and Technology Management at Portland State University, and he also contributes as a faculty member at the Mark O. Hatfield Center for Cybersecurity and Cyber Defense Policy at the same institution. Known for his research in science management, technology forecasting, and data analytics, Dr. Yalçın also mentors students, fostering their academic achievements. His international projects include leading initiatives funded by armasuisse, the Swiss Federal Department of Defense, such as "Technology Monitoring and Forecasting for Quantum Technologies: A Scientometric Approach" and "Technology Monitoring and Forecasting for Cyberdefense: A Scientometric Approach." These projects underscore his ongoing contributions to cybersecurity and next-generation security technologies.

Prof. Dr. Fulya DEDEOĞLU graduated from Ege University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Archaeology, Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology in 1999. She completed her master’s degree in 2003 at the Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Archaeology, with the thesis “The Expansion Policy of the Hittite Kingdom in Northern Syria”, and her doctoral studies in 2010 with the dissertation “The Upper Menderes Basin from the Neolithic to the End of the Early Bronze Age: Cultural, Social and Economic Processes.” She was awarded the title of Associate Professor in 2018 and subsequently promoted to Professor.
Since 1995, Dedeoğlu has taken part as a researcher and field director in various excavations and surveys in Eastern and Western Anatolia. Between 2011 and 2012, she conducted academic research at the University of Leicester (UK) with a YÖK post-doctoral research fellowship, and also participated in Erasmus faculty exchange programs. Her main research interests include Neolithic and Chalcolithic cultures, the archaeology of the Upper Menderes Basin, settlement patterns, socio-economic organisation processes, cultural interaction, and environmental archaeology.
Since 2001, she has been a faculty member in the Department of Archaeology, Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology at Ege University, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses and supervising master’s and doctoral theses. In addition to her academic work, she has held several administrative positions, including Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Letters, Director of Ege University’s Continuing Education Center, and Vice-Chair of the Department of Archaeology, and has served on various academic and administrative committees.
Dedeoğlu previously served as Deputy Director of the Beycesultan Excavations and as Director of the Upper Menderes Basin Mountainous Region Survey Project. She currently acts as Director of the Ekşi Höyük Excavations and has been Editor of the Ege University Journal of Archaeology since 2007.

20.02.1968 tarihinde Adapazarı’nda doğdu; Lisans, Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora eğitimini Almanya/Freiburg Albert-Ludwigs Üniversitesi, Eskiçağ Tarihi, Klasik Arkeoloji ve Ortaçağ Tarihi Bölümlerinde gördü (1988-1999). 1999 yılında Akdeniz Üniversitesi Eskiçağ Dilleri ve Kültürleri Bölümü’nde öğretim üyesi olarak göreve başladı ve aynı yıl Doçent unvanını aldı. 2006-2020 yıları arasında adı geçen bölümün başkanlığını yaptı. Uzmanlık alanlarını Yunan ve Latin Epigrafisi, Eskiçağ Tarihi ve Tarihi Coğrafya oluşturmaktadır. Bu alanlarda 8 kitap ve 100 makale yayımlamıştır. 

Born on April 22, 1984, in Izmir. He completed his undergraduate education at the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Science and Letters, Dokuz Eylül University (2002–2006), his master's degree at the Classical Archaeology Program, Institute of Social Sciences, Dokuz Eylül University (2006–2009), and completed his doctorate at the Department of Classical Archaeology, Institute of Social Sciences, Dokuz Eylül University (2009–2016). He is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Turkish-Islamic Archaeology, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, İzmir Katip Çelebi University. He has been serving as the Department Vice Chair since 2018. He has been serving as the editor of the Turkish Academy of Sciences Journal of Cultural Inventory since 2019.
Since 2008, he has been a member of the team conducting the Smyrna Ancient City Excavations, led by Prof. Dr. Akın Ersoy. Since 2021, he has been serving as the assistant director.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0791-9584

Almanca

Studies of Ancient History, Classics, Classical Archaeology, and Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Cologne, Germany; PhD in Classics 1984, Habilitation 1997; research and teaching jobs in Köln, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Lyon, Leiden, Oxford, Paris, Bordeaux, now Professor of Greek History and Epigraphy at Vienna University and head of the research group "Epigraphy” at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Co-editor of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names V.A-C; co-editor of the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum.

1989 yılında Selçuk Üniversitesi Arkeoloji ve Sanat Tarihi bölümünden mezun oldu. 1998 yılında da “Ortaçağ’da Kayseri Kent Dokusunun Gelişimi” isimli tezle de doktora çalışmasını tamamladı.1996-2015 yılları arasında Selçuk Üniversitesi Sanat Tarihi Bölümü Türk Dünyası ve Ortaçağ Kültürleri Arkeolojisi Ana Bilim Dalında sırasıyla Ana Bilim Dalı Başkanı olarak, 2015-2016 yılları arasında Uludağ Üniversitesi, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sanat Tarihi Bölümünde Bölüm Başkanı olarak görev yaptı. 2016 yılından itibaren Akdeniz Üniversitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, Sanat Tarihi Bölümü Ortaçağ Arkeolojisi Ana Bilim Dalında öğretim üyesi olarak görev yapmaktadır. 2016-2021 yılları arasında Akdeniz Üniversitesi, Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi Dekanlığı görevini de yürüttü.

2003 yılında DAI Bursu ile Berlin’de Selçuklu Mimarlık ve Sanatında spolien malzeme kullanımı konusunda araştırma yaptı .2011 yılında New York FIAF’da Selçuklu dönemi kervansarayları üzerine konuk araştırmacı olarak araştırma daveti aldı. 2015-2018 yılları arasında TÜBİTAK SOBAG, Grup Yürütme Kurulu Üyeliği görevini yürüttü. 2015 yılından itibaren Avrupa Komisyonu, TÜBITAK-UİDB Horizon 2020 Sosyal ve Beşeri Bilimler (SSH) alanı komisyon toplantılarına Türkiye Komite üyesi olarak katılmaktadır.

1986 yılında Knidos Kazısına, 1998 ve 1999 yıllarında Konya ve Çevresindeki Kervansaray Kazılarına, 2001 yılında Alanya Kalesi Kazısına katıldı. 2007-2013 yılları arsında Bakanlar Kurulu kararlı “Alara Kazısı’nın” Başkanlığını yürüttü. 2015 yılından itibaren Bakanlar Kurulu izni ile Alanya Kazısının Kazı Başkanlığını yaptığı çalışmalara halen devam etmektedir. 2014 yılında Türkmenistan’ın Merv Şehrinde Türkmenistan-Türkiye işbirliği protokolü çerçevesinde TİKA’nın desteğiyle Sultan Alparslan’ın Mezar yerinin aranması için arkeolojik kazıların kazı başkanı olarak görev yapmaya başladı. 2015-2018 yılları arasında TİKA’nın desteğiyle Kırgızistan Koçkor’da Karahanlı dönemine tarihlenen bir Türbe yapısında Arkeolojik Kazı çalışmalarını yürüttü. Bu kazı çalışmaları dışında birçok küçük ortaçağ arkeolojisine yönelik kazı ve araştırmalarda bulundu. Bunlardan bazıları, Sedre Selçuklu Köşkü Kazısı, Aksaray 2. Kılıçarslan Hamamı Kazısı, Divriği Ulu Camisi (UNESCO WHL) Kazısı, Antalya Mevlevihane Çevresi Araştırma Kazısı, Şehzade Korkut Camisi (Kesik Minare) Araştırma Kazılarıdır.

2009 yılında başlanılan “Büyük Selçuklunun Mirası” projesinin baş yazar ve editörüdür. Bu proje kapsamında 2013 yılında bu çalışmalar sonucunda toplam beş ciltlik iki çalışması Türkçe ve İngilizce olarak yayınlandı. 2018 yılında Kazakistan Kültür Bakanlığının da davetiyle Kazakistan’daki arkeolojik araştırmalar ve Türkistan Yesi’deki arkeolojik kazı çalışmaları için Türkiye-Kazakistan arasında koordineli çalışmalara başladı. Halen bu çalışmalar sürdürülmektedir. 2015-2016 yılları arasında Anadolu Selçuklu Kervansarayları ile ilgili olarak “Yolların Tanıkları” isimli kitabı hazırladı. Müzecilik alanı ile ilgili dersler verdi ve araştırmalara katıldı. Türkiye’de Afyonkarahisar Devlet Müzesi, Ankara Makine Kimya Endüstrisi Kurumu Müzesi, Alanya Selçuklu Sarayı Müzesi gibi birçok müzede küratörü olarak görev yaptı. Halen Antalya Kültür Varlıklarını Koruma Kurulunun Başkanlığı görevini sürdürmektedir. Türkiye’de ve Türkiye dışında (Kırgızistan, Afganistan) olmak üzere çok sayıda yapının koruma ve restorasyonu ile ilgili konularda Restorasyona yön verecek araştırma grubunun başkanlığını ve ekip üyeliğini yaptı. Koruma ve Restorasyon konusunda Türkiye’deki birçok kurulda raportör, kurul üyesi ve kurul başkanlığı yaptı.
Çalışma alanı ile ilgili olarak, Berlin Pergamon Museum, Oxford Üniversitesi, Leeds Üniversitesi, Trnava (Slovakya) Üniversitesi, Hindistan Jamia Milliye Üniversitesi, Polonya Wroclaw Üniversitesi, İspanya Cadis Üniversitesi, Almanya Mainz Üniversitesi, Hindistan IGNCA Enstitüsünde konferans ve sempozyumlarda bildiri sundu. Çalıştığı konularda beş kitabı ve çok sayıda kitap ve dergilerde makale yayınladı.

Graduated from the Department of Anthropology at the Faculty of Languages, History and Geography, Ankara University. She/He completed both her/his master’s and doctoral studies at the Institute of Social Sciences of the same university.

She/He has participated as an anthropologist in various national and international excavations and research projects. Currently, she/he serves as the Director of the Çankırı/Çorakyerler Vertebrate Fossil Excavation Project. In addition, she/he works as a forensic anthropologist in disaster victim identification studies.

She/He has numerous national and international publications and has presented papers at various national and international symposiums and congresses. At present, she/he serves as the Chair of the Department of Anthropology and the Head of the Division of Forensic Anthropology at Ankara University.

Özlem Çevik, 21.03.1969 tarihinde Malatya’da doğdu. İzmir Karşıyaka Lisesi’nden mezun olduktan sonra, Lisans ve Yüksek Lisans eğitimini Ege Üniversitesi, Klasik Arkeoloji Anabilim Dalı’nda, Doktorasını ise yine aynı üniversitenin Protohistorya ve Önasya Arkeolojisi Anabilim Dalı'nda 2004 yılında tamamladı. 2007 yılından itibaren Trakya Üniversitesi Arkeoloji bölümünde çalışmaktadır. 2009 yılından itibaren de İzmir-Ulucak Höyük kazılarına başkanlık etmektedir. Anadolu’da kentleşme süreci ve Batı Anadolu’nun neolitikleşme süreci temel araştırma konularını oluşturmaktadır ve bu konuda yazılmış ulusal ve uluslararası yayınları bulunmaktadır.

Musa Kadıoğlu was born in 1971 in Bafra. In 1989 he started his undergraduate studies in the Department of Classical Archaeology of the Faculty of Letters at the Ankara University from where he graduated in 1994. He gained his master's degree from the same department in 1997. In 2002 he completed his Ph.D. entitled “The Scaenae frons of the theatre of Nysa on the Maeander” under the supervision Prof. Dr. V. M. Strocka at the Institute of Archaeology of the Albert-Ludwig University at Freiburg with scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the State of Baden-Württenberg (Landesgraduiertenförderung). His thesis was elected for the Günter Wöhrle Achievement Award in 2002 by a state foundation called “Humanismus Heute”. The book derived from the thesis (published in 2006 as Die Scaenae Frons des Theaters von Nysa am Mäander, Forschungen in Nysa am Mäander I) received the 2007 Encouragement Award of Turkey Academy of Sciences (TUBA). In 1995 he started his academic career as a research assistant at the department of Classical Archaeology at the Faculty of Letters of the Ankara Universityand since 2006 he is working as an Associate Professor at the same department. Since 1990 he has been a member of the excavation teams of Stratonikeia, Magnesia on the Maeander and Nysa on the Maeander. Since 2010 he directs the research and restoration works in the ancient city of Teos in Ionia (Seferihisar/Izmir).

Born on 16th July 1967, he graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Language and History-Geography, Department of Archaeology and History of Art in 1989. In 1990, he was appointed as a research assistant in the same department, and in 1993 he completed his master's degree. In 1999, he completed his doctorate at Ankara University. In 2003, he was promoted to the position of Assistant Professor, to Associate Professor in 2010, and to Professor in 2015. He is currently working as a Professor at Ankara University, Faculty of Language and History-Geography, Department of Archaeology.

Born in Istanbul, 14.10.1969, 

UNIVERSITYARY STUDY

Undergraduate: 1986-1990: Classical Archaeology at the University of Istanbul.
MA: 1990-1993 Classical Archaeology at the University of İstanbul, subject: „Ainos Pişmiş Toprak Heykelcikleri. Oturan Kolsuz Aphroditeler ve Adak Grubu Eserleri“ (Terracottas from Ainos. Seated armless Aphrodites and Votive Figurines)
PhD: 2001: Archaeology at the University of Leuven in Belgium, Subject: “Die Nekropolen und Grabdenkmäler von Sagalassos in Pisidien in hellenistischer und römischer Zeit” (Necropoleis and Burial Customs at Sagalassos in Pisidia in Hellenistic and Roman Times), promoter: Prof. Dr. Marc Waelkens, co-promoter: Prof. Dr. H. von Hesberg (University of Cologne), with Suma Cum Laude. 

WORKING EXPERIENCE
- (1990 to 1995) Part-time student work in the library of German Archaeological Institute in Istanbul.
- (01-06-2002 to 31-05-2004) Postdoctoral research Project of DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - German Research Foundation), in the research program „Formen und Wege der Akkulturation im östlichen Mittelmeerraum und Schwarzmeergebiet in der Antike“, the subject: Kultureller Wandel in den Städten West- und Süd-Pisidiens/Türkei in hellenistischer und römischer Zeit.
- (01.08.2004 to 31.01.2005) Part-time Post-doctoral researcher for the Pisidia Survey Project in Pednelissos, at the University of Cologne (Germany).
- ( February 2007) Permanent post as Lecturer at Hacettepe University in Ankara.
- (2008-2018) Permanent post as Senior Lecturer at Hacettepe University in Ankara.
- (Since 2018) Permanent post as Prof. Dr. at Ankara University in Ankara.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Turkish (Mother tongue), English and German (Fluent), Dutch und Spanish (Basic)

Prof. Dr. Zeynep Çizmeli Öğün graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography, Department of Classical Archaeology in 1991 and completed her Master's and PhD studies in numismatics at Lille 3 University in France with a scholarship from the French Government. At the same time, Z. Çizmeli Öğün attended the seminars of Georges Le Rider, Olivier Picard and Michel Amandry at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes of Paris - IV Sorbonne University and has been a faculty member at the Department of Classical Archaeology, Faculty of Language and History Geography, Ankara University since 2001. Between 2021 and 2024 Çizmeli Öğün assumed the position of Head of the Department of Archaeology at the same faculty and is currently focusing on Anatolian Numismatics and excavation coins.

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Eylem Özdoğan, 1999 yılında İstanbul Üniversitesi Sanat Tarihi ve Arkeoloji Bölümü Prehistorya Anabilim Dalından mezun olmuştur. Aynı üniversitede 2003 yılında “Marmara Bölgesi’nde Beslenme ve Besin Depolama” konulu Yüksek Lisans, 2009 yılında ise “Balkanlarda İlk Neolitik Dönem’den Orta Neolitik Döneme Geçiş” konulu Doktora tezlerini Prof. Dr. Mehmet Özdoğan’ın danışmanlığında tamamlamıştır. İstanbul Üniversitesi Prehistorya Anabilim Dalı'nda 2002 yılında Asistan, 2013 yılında Yardımcı Doçent, 2017 yılından bu yana da Doçent olarak görev yapmaktadır. Öncelikli araştırma alanı, Neolitik yaşamın Batı Asya'da ortaya çıkışı ve ardından Güneydoğu Avrupa'ya yayılmasıdır. Bu doğrultuda, Marmara Bölgesi ve Güneydoğu Anadolu'daki arkeolojik projelerde görev almıştır. Özdoğan, 1995 yılından bu yana Doğu Trakya'daki Aşağı Pınar kazı ekibinin tam zamanlı bir üyesidir. Aşağı Pınar, Neolitik Dönem’de Anadolu ve Balkanlar arasındaki etkileşime dair kapsamlı veri sağlayan araştırma projelerinden birdir. Maramara bölgesinin yanı sıra 1999-2004 yılları arasında Şanlıurfa’da Mezraa Teleilat kazılarında çalışmış ve aynı bölgede TÜBA TÜKSEK Kültür Envanteri Projesi kaspamında yapılan arkeolojik yüzey araştırmalarında görev almıştır. 2009-2010 yıllarında Kıklareli yüzey araştırmalarına katılmış ve 2017-2019 yılları arasında Bandırma'da Manyas Gölü Doğu Kesim yüzey ararştırmalarını yürütmüştür. 2021 yılından bu yana Şanlıurfa’da Taş Tepeler Projesi kapsamında, Çanak Çömleksiz Neolitik Dönem’e tarihlenen Sayburç yerleşimindeki arkeolojik araştırmaları yürütmektedir.

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Hamdi Sayar’ın Özgeçmişi:
1974 ile 1978 yıllarında İstanbul Üniversitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, Klasik Diller, Klasik Arkeoloji ve Eski Çağ Tarihi eğitimi aldı. 1979 ile 1984 yılları arasında İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzelerinde görev yaptı. Bu görevi kapsamında İstanbul ve Anadolu’da birçok kazı ve araştırmada bulundu ve bakanlık temsilcilikleri görevleri yaptı. 1984 – 1989 yılları arasında Viyana Üniversitesi Eskiçağ Tarihi, Klasik Filoloji, Klasik Arkeoloji ve Bizantinistik Bölümlerinde eğitim gördü ve 1989 yılında Eskiçağ Tarihi alanında doktorasını tamamladı. 1989 ile 1998 yılları arasında Viyana Üniversitesi, Eskiçağ Tarihi Bölümünde asistan olarak eğitim ve araştırma çalışmalarında bulundu. Bu görevi kapsamında Londra, Paris, Bordeaux, Roma, Perugia, Palermo, Catania, Berlin, Hamburg, Münih, Köln, Münster, Tübingen Üniversitelerinde araştırma çalışmalarında bulundu, bilimsel toplantılara katıldı, ortak projelerde çalıştı ve konferanslar verdi. 1993 yılında İstanbul Üniversitesinde, girdiği Doçentlik sözlü sınavında başarılı olarak Eskiçağ Tarihi Doçenti oldu.

1978-2024 yılları arasında Türkiye ve yurtdışındaki arkeolojik kazılara heyet üyesi olarak katıldı. Yurtiçinde ve yurtdışında Eskiçağ tarihi, Eskiçağ Dönemi Anıtları ve Eskiçağ tarihi-coğrafyası üzerine konferanslar verdi. 1998-1999’da Alexander von Humboldt Vakfı bursuyla Köln Üniversitesi, Eskiçağ Tarihi Bölümünde Çukurova Eski Çağ yazıtlarını yayınladı. Sayar, 1999-2002 yıllarında Bonn Üniversitesi, Arkeoloji Bölümünde Çukurova’da Eskiçağda görülen Bölgelerearası Etkileşimi inceledi. 1990’da üye olduğu Uluslararası Eskiçağ Tarihi-Coğrafyası Derneğinin 2014 yılından beri Başkan Yardımcılığına seçilmiş olan Sayar, Bonn’da yayımlanan Epigraphica Anatolica, Stuttgart’ta yayımlanan Orbis Terrarum, Sofya’da yayımlanan Archaeologica Bulgarica dergilerinin yayın kurullarının üyesidir.

2003 yılı Haziran ayından beri İstanbul Üniversitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, Tarih Bölümünde, Eskiçağ Tarihi Profesörü olarak görev yapan Sayar, 2006’dan beri İstanbul Üniversitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, Güneydoğu Avrupa Araştırmaları Merkezi Müdürüdür. 2018 yılından beri Anadolu Araştırmaları ile Güneydoğu Avrupa Araştırmaları Dergilerinin baş editörüdür. Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi tarafından yayımlanan TÜBA-AR dergisinin yayın kurulu üyesidir. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, Kültür Varlıkları ve Müzeler Genel Müdürlüğü tarafından yayımlanan Türk Arkeoloji Dergisi ile Antalya’da yayımlanan ve SCOPUS tarafından 2017 yılından beri taranan Gephyra dergisinin yayın kurulu üyesidir.

Sayar, 2004’te UNESCO’nun alt kuruluşlarından biri olan Uluslararası Anıtlar ve Sitler Konseyi (ICOMOS) Türkiye Milli Komitesi, 2020’de tahkimat ve savunma yapılarına yönelik çalışan UNESCO-ICOFORT komisyonunun Türkiye üyesi olmuştur.

2013 yılında Berlin’de Humboldt vakfının bursuyla bilimsel yayın çalışmalarını sürdüren Sayar, 2016 yılında Princeton, Institut for Advanced Studies’te Trakya ve Çukurova eskiçağ tarihi araştırmalarının yayınlarına yönelik çalışmalarda bulunmuştur.

Sayar 2006 yılında kurulan Eskiçağ Bilimleri Avrupa Ortak Yüksek Lisans Programının Koordinatörlerindendir.

Sayar 2010 yılında İstanbul Üniversitesinde 11. Uluslararası Trakoloji Kongresini düzenlemiştir.
2017 yılında Marmara Ereğlisinde 2., 2022 yılında 5. Uluslararası Roma Trakyası toplantılarını düzenlemiştir.

2021 yılı Kasım ayında Türk Tarih Kurumu bilim heyeti üyeliğine seçilmiştir. Bu görevi kapsamında Türk Tarih Kurumu tarafından yayımlanan Belleten, Belgeler ve Höyük dergileri ile Türk Tarih Kurumu tarafından basılan kitapların yayın değerlendirme komisyonu üyesidir.

2022 yılından beri Uluslararası Doğu Roma Çalışmaları Birliğinin Geç Antik Devir Yazıtları Çalışmalarının Üyesidir.

2024 yılı Şubat ayında Europa Nostra derneğinin üyesi olmuştur.

2024 yılı Mart ayında Türk Tarih Kurumu Koordinatörlüğünde yapılan Doğu Roma Çalışmaları Mili Komitesinin Başkanlığına seçilmiştir.

Smith is from Edinburgh in Scotland; has taught in New York and Oxford, where he was Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art in Oxford (1995-2022). He has worked on Anatolian field projects at Oinoanda, Balboura, and Aphrodisias. He has been Director of the Excavations at Aphrodisias since 1991. His research is concerned with the historical and social interpretation of Greek and Roman art and visual culture. In 2024 and 2025 he is Visiting Professor at Bilkent University in Ankara.

Smith’s largest publication is on The marble reliefs from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias (2013). His shortest is on the cult and image of Hadrian’s favourite, Antinous: boy made god (2018). His best known and most translated (including a Turkish edition) is Hellenistic Sculpture (1991).