Zeynep Çelik
Zeynep Çelik is Distinguished Professor of architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She obtained her B.Arch from Istanbul Technical University, her M. Arch from Rice University, and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She teaches history of architecture and urbanism, with an emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and cross-cultural relations. Her publications include The Remaking of Istanbul (Washington, 1986; California, 1993), Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth Century World’s Fairs (California, 1992), Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers under French Rule (California, 1997), Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space (California, 1993—coeditor), and the forthcoming Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914 (Washington, 2008) and Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City through Text and Image (Getty Publications and Washington--coeditor). Professor Çelik is currently working on two exhibitions related to her forthcoming books (to be held in the Galleries of the Ottoman Bank in Istanbul and at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles) and conducting new research on the historiography of archaeology in the late Ottoman Empire.