Academic Staff

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
(852) 3411 5963
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
- "Osmanlı'nın İlk Demiryolu Tecrübesi: İzmir-Aydın Hattının Zorlu Yılları [The First Railway Experience of the Ottomans: The Troubled Beginnings of the Izmir-Aydın Line]." Toplumsal Tarih Akademi / 2 (Haziran 2023): 8-24. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ttakademi/issue/78535/1286498
- "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.
- "Learning Vicariously: Tourism, Orientalism and the Making of an Architectural Photography Collection of Egypt." Architectural Histories 5(1): 2 (2017): 1-10. http://journal.eahn.org/articles/10.5334/ah.199/
- "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.
