Emine Çiğdem Asrav, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Contact
Office: FF 504
E-mail: emine.asrav [at] bilkent.edu.tr
CV
Emine Çiğdem Asrav received her PhD in Architectural and Landscape Heritage at Politecnico di Torino in 2020. Her research integrates history and heritage studies within the framework of landscape research. Her interests cover multicultural heritage, multilayered landscapes, rural heritage, heritage politics, and place-based and community-driven conservation.
She has published her research in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters and has presented at national and international conferences.
She has also contributed to numerous national and international multidisciplinary projects on archaeological, modern, and rural heritage documentation, conservation and management, as well as post-disaster damage assessment and recovery, community engagement, and capacity building. She integrates GIS technologies into her research as a decision-support system for sustainable heritage management.
She received her B.Arch. and M.Sc. in Conservation of Cultural Heritage degrees from the Middle East Technical University. Before joining Bilkent University, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in an ERC StG research project focused on landscapes of exchange in Turkey and Greece. She then conducted her Marie Curie COFUND postdoctoral research project at METU and Politecnico di Torino, where she also taught graduate and undergraduate courses. She currently teaches second-year design studios.
Publications (Selected)
ASRAV, E.Ç. (2024) Venedik Tüzüğü’nden Günümüze Tarihi Kırsal Peyzajların Korunmasına Yönelik İlkelerin Gelişimi. Mimar.ist, 81, 105-109.
AMYGDALOU, K., ASRAV, E.Ç., GRIGORIADIS, I.N. (2022) Between Ritual and Restoration: Remembering and Reclaiming Ionia’s Religious Architectural Heritage, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 40(2), 425-455.
ASRAV, E.Ç. (2019) Protecting Landscape as a Network of Relations: Challenges and Perspectives in the Case of Imerhev (Meydancık) Valley, Turkey, Ri Vista-Ricerche per la Progettazione del Paesaggio, Press, 17(2), 112-125.
ASRAV, E.Ç. (2021) Kırsal Alanların Kültürel Miras Olarak Değerlendirilmesi ve Korunmasına Yönelik Dünyadan Yaklaşımlar, eds. A.U. Peker, N. Şahin Güçhan, Topluma Adanmış Bir Yaşam: Prof. Dr. Ömür Bakırer Armağanı, METU Publication, Ankara, 125-136.
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)
EU H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND Post-Doctoral Research Fellow; Project Coordinator, 2022-2024
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Architecture at ERC StG Project, 2021-2022
The Best Thesis Award of 2015-2016 Academic Year, METU, 2016
Invited Lectures (Selected)
“Rural Areas between Heritage and Design,” TEDU Department of Architecture, 25 November 2022, Ankara, Turkey.
“Kırsal Alanlarda Geleneksel Konut ve Konut Çevrelerinin Dönüşmesi ve Korunması,” 7. Kent Araştırmaları Kongresi, 16-18 May 2022, Ankara, Turkey.
“Rural Areas as Heritage Places: Conceptions, Cases and Conservation Practices in Turkey and Abroad,” Yaşar University, 20 October 2021, virtual.
“Reviewing the Rural Landscapes and Heritage Places in Three Different Regions of Turkey,” ICOMOS International Day of Monuments and Sites International Symposium on Rural Heritage: From Conception to Conservation, 31 May 2019, METU, Ankara, Turkey.
“Confrontations of Heritage and Economics: Profit-Oriented Decisions and Their Effects on Historic Rural Landscapes-Cases from Turkey,” International Symposium on Our Heritage Where Past Meets Future | Confrontation of Heritage and Economics: Challenges and Opportunities, 14 September 2018, METU, Ankara, Turkey.
Memberships (Selected)
ICOMOS Turkey
ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes
Conservation Association in Turkey (KORDER)
Observatoire du Patrimoine d’Orient et de la Méditerranée (OPOM; Local Expert)
