Award Topics
The topic for the 2007 award competition was "Perceptions of the Ottoman Legacy in the Balkans and the Middle East". A nine-member international jury reviewed all essays. The first prize went to Dr. Christine Philliou, from Columbia University's History Department, for her essay on "The Paradox of Perceptions: Interpreting the Ottoman Past through the National Present".
Winners
First prize: Dr. Christine Philliou, Assistant Professor, Department of History Columbia University
Essay: : "The Paradox of Perceptions: Interpreting the Ottoman Past Through the National Present"
Second Prize:
a) Dr. Suhnaz Yilmaz, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations Koc University
b) Dr. Ipek K. Yosmaoglu, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Essay: "Fighting the Specters of the Past: Dilemmas of Ottoman Legacy in the Balkans and the Middle East"
Third Prize: Maximilian Harthmuth, Sabancı University. Student, History Graduate Program.
Essay: "De/Constrducting a 'Legacy in Stone': Of Interpretive and Historiographical Problems Concerning the Ottoman Cultural Heritage in the Balkans"
Honorable Mention: Edin Hajdarpasic, Department of History and Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan.
Essay: "Out of the Ruins of the Ottoman Empire: Reflections on Ottoman Legacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina"
Honorable Mention: Dr. Charles Sabatos, Postdoctoral Fellow, Oberlin College.
Essay: " 'Worse than a Turk': Slovak Perceptions of Ottoman Legacy in Eastern Europe"
Jury
Prof. Dr. Ustun Erguder : Director, Istanbul Policy Center / Sabancı University.
Prof. Dr. Cornell H. Fleischer : Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies, University of Chicago.
Prof. Dr. Cemal Kafadar : Vehbi Koc Professor of Turkish Studies, Harvard University
Prof. Dr. Metin Kunt : Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabancı University.
Prof. Dr. Maria Todorova : Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Zachariadou : Program Director, Institute for Mediterranean Studies in Rethymnon, Crete.
Prof. Dr. Sami Zubaida: Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology, School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck University of London
Prof. Dr. Walter B. Denny : Professor of Art History, University of Massachusetts.
Prof. Dr. Israel Gershoni : Professor of History, Tel-Aviv University.
Winning Articles
Christine Philliou
The Paradox of Perceptions: Interpreting the Ottoman Past through the National Present
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