Sibel Zandi-Sayek

TrOttoman Izmir: The Rise of a Cosmopolitan Port, 1840-1880 (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), focuses on the politics of space and identity in a city at the nexus of nineteenth-century global exchanges. The book was awarded the 2013 M. Fuat Köprülü Prize in Ottoman and Turkish Studies. Professor Zandi-Sayek was the founding co-director of the Asian and Middle East Studies (AMES) Program at William & 玛丽 (2010-2013) and served as Reviews Editor for the "International Journal of Islamic Architecture" (2017-2020). Her current research investigates architecture and industrial technologies in relation to nineteenth-century mobilities and knowledge networks in Europe and the Ottoman Empire.