Participant Info

First Name
Zehra Betul
Last Name
Atasoy
Country
Turkey
State
Affiliation
Kadir Has University
Website URL
https://fad.khas.edu.tr/en/academic/3212
Keywords
urban history, everyday life, women's history, Istanbul, Turkey, labor history, history of sexuality
Availability
Media Contact
Additional Contact Information
zehra.atasoy@khas.edu.tr
PhD
PhD

Personal Info

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About Me

Zehra Betül Atasoy is a visiting scholar at Kadir Has University, Faculty of Art and Design. She holds a Ph.D. in the Urban Environment-History specialization from a dual degree program of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Rutgers University-Newark. Her research focuses on the quotidian urban practices of women from various social strata in early Republican Istanbul and aims to recover their overlooked stories through different reformation efforts in fragmented urban spaces.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Istanbul Technical University, where she also got her master’s degree in History of Architecture. Besides, she worked as an editor for Arkitera Architecture Center and other architectural platforms between 2011 and 2014. Atasoy also worked as a teaching assistant at NJIT-Hillier College of Art and Design from 2014 to 2018. She was a fellow at the Istanbul Studies Center for the academic year of 2018-2019.

Recent Publications

Erken Cumhuriyet İstanbul’unda Frengi ve Fuhuşun Mekansal Yansımaları, in Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e
Salgın Hastalıklar ve Kamu Sağlığı, ed. Burcu Kurt and İsmail Yaşayanlar (Istanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları,
2017), 215-232.

19. Yüzyıl Amerikan Gezi Metinlerinde Geç Osmanlı Mimarlığına Dair Gözlemler, in Geç Osmanlı Döneminde
Sanat Mimarlık ve Kültür Karşılaşmaları, ed. Gözde Çelik, (Istanbul: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 2016), 223-245.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Turkey
Expertise by Geography
Middle East
Expertise by Chronology
20th century
Expertise by Topic
Gender, Labor, Urban History, Women