{"id":5998,"date":"2006-01-31T03:21:55","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T03:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=5998"},"modified":"2026-02-03T06:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:47:22","slug":"aslihan-gunhan-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=5998","title":{"rendered":"Asl\u0131han G\u00fcnhan, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Asl\u0131han G\u00fcnhan, Ph.D.<\/strong>
Assistant Professor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Office: FF-409A
Tel: 1869
E-Mail: aslihan.gunhan [at] bilkent.edu.tr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CV<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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Asl\u0131han G\u00fcnhan received her PhD in the History of Architecture and Urban Development Program at Cornell University in 2023. Her first book project, “Displaced Modernities: The Ottoman Empire, Turkey and the Specters of Armenian Architects,” is an architectural study of the displacement of Armenians from the Ottoman Empire, their silenced legacy in the built environment, and the contested modernity in Turkey which crafts a legal basis for the confiscation of properties, dispossession of ex-citizens and bureaucracy of denial. G\u00fcnhan\u2019s research has garnered support from numerous institutions, including The Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Getty Research Institute, SSRC IDRF, Fulbright Program, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Einaudi Center Institute for European Studies, and SALT Research. Her scholarly contributions extend to edited volumes such as Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination (2023) and peer-reviewed journals like Y\u0131ll\u0131k: Annual of Istanbul Studies (2023). She received her B.Arch. and M.Arch. degrees from the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey. She previously held a research position at MoMA and teaching positions at Cornell and METU. Currently, she is teaching 3rd year design studios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Publications (Selected)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Asl\u0131han G\u00fcnhan (2023). \u201cDisplaced Modernities: The Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and the Specters of Armenian Builders,\u201d PhD Dissertation, Cornell University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asl\u0131han G\u00fcnhan (2023). \u201cBourgeois Wealth, Architecture and Infrastructure: Azaryan Family in the Late Ottoman Istanbul,\u201d in Capitalistic Urbanization in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Armenian Agencies dossier, Tolga Cora and Umit Firat Acikgoz ed., YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies, vol. 5, pp: 67-93. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53979\/yillik.2023.5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asl\u0131han G\u00fcnhan (2023). \u201cLiving on another displacement\u2019s ruins: Adana\u2019s D\u00f6\u015feme Neighborhood in Turkey,\u201d in Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination, Esra Akcan and Iftikhar Dadi ed., Routledge, Pp: 33-42. https:\/\/doi-org.proxy.library.cornell.edu\/10.4324\/9781003410010<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asl\u0131han G\u00fcnhan (2023). \u201cVedat \u00d6zsan\u2019la Geriye D\u00f6n\u00fck Bir S\u00f6zl\u00fc Tarih Denemesi: Milli E\u011fitim Bakanl\u0131\u011f\u0131 Yap\u0131s\u0131 ve 1950-1980 Aras\u0131 Mimarl\u0131k Prati\u011fi (A Retrospective Oral History Inquirt with Vedat Ozsan: Ministry of National Education Building and Architectural Practice Between 1950-1980)\u201d in Vedat Ozsan, Nuray Bayraktar ed., VEKAM Publications. Pp: 50-69.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asl\u0131han G\u00fcnhan (2021). \u201cSeyahat halinde bir ar\u015fiv ve \u00e7o\u011funluk\u00e7u olmayan mimarl\u0131k tarihi yaz\u0131m\u0131: Osmanl\u0131 Mimarl\u0131\u011f\u0131 ve Balyan Ar\u015fivi\u2019ne bakmak (Traveling Archive and writing a non-majoritarian architectural history: Looking at Ottoman Architecture and the Balyan Archive)\u201d Mimarl\u0131k Dergisi, vol. 421, September-October 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asl\u0131han G\u00fcnhan (2021). \u201cG\u00f6n\u00e7 Palas Bro\u015f\u00fcr\u00fc ve Postmodern Sentezler (Gonc Palas Brochure and Postmodern Synthesis)\u201d Postmodern Ankara Dossier, B\u00fclent Batuman ed., Solfasol, vol. 98, March 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asl\u0131han G\u00fcnhan (2019). \u201c\u00c7atlaklar ve \u00c7okluklar: 23,5 Hrant Dink Haf\u0131za Mekan\u0131 (Fissures and Plentitudes: The 23.5 Hrant Dink Space of Memory)\u201d in Mimarl\u0131k, vol. 409, September-October 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Getty Research Institute Predoctoral Residential Fellowship 2021 \u2013 2022 <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fulbright Scholarship 2014-2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cornell University History of Architecture and Urban Development Program Research Funding 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SALT Research Institute Research Fellowship 2021 <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Einaudi Center Institute for European Studies Graduate Research Grant 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cornell University Robert D. and Bonnie G. MacDougall Memorial Scholarship 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SSRC Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2019-2020<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Society for Humanities Timothy Murray Dissertation Research Travel Grant 2019<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Einaudi Center International Research Travel Grant 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cornell Institute for European Studies Sidney Tarrow Paper Prize 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cornell Institute of Comparative Modernities Reading Group Grant 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Clarke Initiative for Law and Development in the Middle East and North Africa Ottoman Language Education Grant 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curatorial Work (Selected)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Asl\u0131han G\u00fcnhan (Curator), \u201cA Monologue? A Dialogue? Re-reading 1873 Vienna World Exhibition,\u201d Cornell University AAP, Ithaca NY, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asl\u0131han G\u00fcnhan (Research Assistant), \u201cThe Endless House,\u201d Curated by Pedro Gadanho, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY, 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asl\u0131han G\u00fcnhan (Research Assistant), \u201cA Japanese Constellation,\u201d Curated by Pedro Gadanho, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY, 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asl\u0131han G\u00fcnhan (Designer), \u201cRe-ACT Re-Reading Architecture as a Cultural Transformation,\u201d Curated by Ay\u015fen Sava\u015f and Murat Germen, Berlin Deutsche Architektur Zentrum, Berlin, Germany and TSMD Architecture Center, Ankara, Turkey, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Invited Lectures (Selected):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cImperial Scramble for Humanitarianism: Displacement and Architecture of Aid,\u201d Kent Enstituleri, January 2024, Ankara, Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cArchitectural Histories of Violence and Care,\u201d TEDU Department of Architecture, Graduate Program in Architecture, November 2023, Ankara, Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReassembling the Fragments: Humanitarianism, Orphan Care and Architecture Against Displacement,\u201d Getty Research Institute, June 2022, Los Angeles, CA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKamp Armen: Bir Modern \u0130n\u015fa, \u00c7evre, M\u00fclkiyet ve Y\u0131k\u0131m \u00d6yk\u00fcs\u00fc (Kamp Armen: A modern history of construction, environment, property rights, and destruction),\u201d Salt Research Institute, December 2021, Istanbul, Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPolitics of Architectural Detail: Ni\u015fan Yaubyan\u2019s Practice,\u201d Chamber of Architects of Turkey, May 2021, virtual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTowards a Non-Majoritarian Architectural History: Azaryan Mansion and Displaced Modernities,\u201d Architectural Association 1927, April 2019, Ankara, Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBuildings that die than once: Hagia Sophia in its multilayered Context,\u201d University of Buffalo, Department of Architecture, October 2018, Buffalo, NY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cItalian Rationalism and Aldo Rossi,\u201d Cornell University Department of Architecture, March 2018, Ithaca, NY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRenaissance in the Mediterranean, Palladio and Mimar Sinan in Dialogue,\u201d Cornell University Department of Architecture, November 2017, Ithaca, NY<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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