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Dr. COBB, Elvan
郭璦雯博士

Assistant Professor, Department of History

 

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

 

(852) 3411 5963

RESEARCH FOCUS

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

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 

  • "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 PROJECTS AND SERVICE

ON-GOING FIELD PROJECTS

 

  • Assistant Director, Ararat Plain Southeast Archaeological Project, Vedi, Armenia

 

SERVICE

 

  • Assistant Editor, International Journal of Islamic Architecture
FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS (Selected)
  • (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.