Zeynep Çelik

Adjunct Professor

Email: zc2162@columbia.edu

Urban and architectural history; Visual culture; Ottoman Empire

Zeynep Çelik teaches history of architecture and urbanism, with an emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and cross-cultural relations. Her publications include The Remaking of Istanbul (Washington, 1986; California, 1993), Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth Century World’s Fairs (California, 1992), Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers under French Rule (California, 1997), Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space (California, 1993—coeditor), and Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914 (Washington, 2008) and Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City through Text and Image (Getty Publications and Washington, 2009--coeditor) and Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archeaology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914 (Istanbul, 2011). Her most recent book, published in 2016, is a study on the Ottoman empire through archaeological research, titled “About Antiquities: Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire.” She served as the editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2000-2003). Professor Çelik is the co-curator of exhibitions at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2009) and SALT, Istanbul (2011-12).