Nevra Necipoğlu is a Turkish

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

of the

Byzantine Empire The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived History of the Roman Empire, the events that caused the ...

who is a professor of history at

Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi University (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Boğaziçi Üniversitesi''), also known as Bosphorus University, is a Public university, public research university in Istanbul, Turkey, historically tied to a former American educational insti ...

Early life and education

She was educated and graduated from

Robert College The American Robert College of Istanbul ( or ), often abbreviated as Robert or RC, is a Selective school, highly selective, Independent school, independent, mixed-sex education, co-educational, Education in Turkey#Private schools, private Second ...

. She then graduated from

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a Private university, private Women's colleges in the United States, historically women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henr ...

with a double major in History and Economics in 1982. She received her Ph.D. in Byzantine History from Harvard University in 1990. She is the sister of

Gülru Necipoğlu Gülru Necipoğlu (born 3 April 1956 in Istanbul) is a Turkish American professor of Islamic Art/Architecture. She has been the Aga Khan Professor and Director of thAga Khan Program for Islamic Architectureat Harvard University since 1993, where ...

, who is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and director of the Aga Khan Program of Islamic Architecture at Harvard University.

Career

She has taught at Boğaziçi University since 1990 and is the founding director of its Byzantine Studies Research Center, which was established in 2015. She has taught courses on Classical History and Civilization, Islamic History and Civilization, Byzantine

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, the

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, pre- Ottoman

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, as well as

Byzantine History The Byzantine Empire's history is generally periodised from late antiquity until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD. From the 3rd to 6th centuries, the Greek East and Latin West of the Roman Empire gradually diverged, marked by Diocletian's (r. ...

and

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. She has published ''Byzantium between the Ottomans and the Latins: Politics and Society in the Late Empire'' (2009) and edited ''Byzantine Constantinople: Monuments, Topography and Everyday Life'', (with Ayla Ödekan and Engin Akyürek) ''The Byzantine Court: Source of Power and Culture'', and (with

Paul Magdalino Paul Magdalino (born 10 May 1948) is a British Byzantinist who is Bishop Wardlaw Professor (Emeritus) of Byzantine History at the University of St Andrews. He received the 1993 Runciman Award for his monograph on the reign of Manuel I Komneno ...

)''Trade in the Byzantine World'' Her research interests include Late Byzantine social and economic history; Byzantine–Ottoman relations; the social topography of late Byzantine Constantinople; and the history of medieval

Anatolia Anatolia (), also known as Asia Minor, is a peninsula in West Asia that makes up the majority of the land area of Turkey. It is the westernmost protrusion of Asia and is geographically bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean ...

Languages

Professor Necipoğlu's native language is Turkish and she is fluent in English. She also can do research in French, German, Ancient & Byzantine Greek, Latin, Ottoman Turkish and Italian. She also has Palaeographic skills in Byzantine Greek, Ottoman Turkish, Medieval Latin and Italian.

Awards and honors

*1986–1987

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Junior Fellowship in Byzantine Studies *1993–1994 Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship in Byzantine Studies *1995 Martin Harrison Memorial Fellowship,

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

*2002 Visiting Scholar, Centre de recherches d’histoire et civilisation Byzantines et du Proche Orient médiéval, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne *2008 Boğaziçi University Award for Outstanding Research *2010

Runciman Award The Runciman Award is an annual literary award offered by the Anglo-Hellenic League for a work published in English dealing wholly or in part with Greece or Hellenism. On some years the prize has been awarded jointly and shared between two or mo ...

Shortlist

Videos

*Türkiye'de Bizans araştırmaları üzerine Prof. Nevra Necipoğlu ve Prof. Engin Akyürek ile sohbet (A Conversation with Professors Nevra Necipoğlu and Engin Akyürek on Byzantine Research in Turkey (in Turkish) *Byzantine Studies Research Center Inauguration at Boğaziçi University, November 24, 2015

Bibliography

Books (author)

*''Byzantium between the Ottomans and the Latins: Politics and Society in the Late Empire'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). urkish translation forthcoming from Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları in 2016ref name=":0" />

Books (editor)

*''Byzantine Constantinople: Monuments, Topography and Everyday Life'', The Medieval Mediterranean vol. 33 (Leiden-Boston-Köln: E. J. Brill, 2001). urkish translation forthcoming from Yapı Kredi Yayınları in 2016">Yapı_Kredi_Yayınları.html" ;"title="urkish translation forthcoming from Yapı Kredi Yayınları">urkish translation forthcoming from Yapı Kredi Yayınları in 2016 *(With Ayla Ödekan and Engin Akyürek) ''The Byzantine Court: Source of Power and Culture. Papers from the Second International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium, Istanbul, 21–23 June 2010'' (Istanbul: Koç University Press, 2013). * (With Paul Magdalino) ''Trade in Byzantium: Papers from the Third International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium'' (Istanbul : Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, 2016).

References

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