Academic Staff

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Prof. COBB, Elvan
郭璦雯教授

Assistant Professor, Department of History

PhD, Cornell University
MS, University of Pennsylvania
BCP, Middle East Technical University

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(852) 3411 5963

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History of Architecture and Urbanism
History of the Modern Middle East and the Ottoman Empire
History of Infrastructure
History of Archaeology
History of Travel and Tourism

  • "Mixing Time: Ancient‐Modern Intersections along the Western Anatolian Railways." In Producing Non-Simultaneity – Construction Sites as Places of Progressiveness and Continuity, edited by Eike-Christian Heine and Christoph Rauhut. 2018. Ashgate.
  • "Politics of Place in the Middle East and the World Heritage Status of Jerusalem." In Sacred Precincts: Non-Muslim Religious Sites in Islamic Territories, edited by Mohammad Gharipour. 2014. Brill.
  • "Dwelling in Hacıveliler: social-engineering policies in the context of space, place and landscape in rural, western Turkey." Anatolian Studies 63 (2013): 155-173. (co-authored)

ON-GOING FIELD PROJECTS
 
  • Assistant Director, Ararat Plain Southeast Archaeological Project, Vedi, Armenia

 

SERVICE
 
  • Assistant Editor, International Journal of Islamic Architecture

  • (10/2022-09/2024) Archaeology and Modernization in the Ottoman Middle East
  • (01/2022-12/2024) 'Spatial Histories of the Early Ottoman Railroads,' supported by the Early Career Scheme of the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong.
  • (03/2021-03/2023) ‘Mapping Touristic Encounters in Southwest Asia,’ supported by a Digital Scholarship Grant from HKBU.