Current Position
Assistant Professor
Department Ecology and Evolution, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences
Istanbul Technical University
Sariyer-Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey 34469
Areas of Specialization
Regional and Temporal Focus: The archaeology of the Bronze and Iron Ages in Anatolia and the Levant: settlement systems, abandonment, environmental change, human impacts on environment, modelling of past land use and paleoclimate, social complexity, and collapse
Field Methods: Geoarchaeology, Geographical Information Systems, Remote Sensing, and Palynology
Anthropological Theories: Cultural Ecology, Environmental Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Social Organization and Complexity
Education
2010 Ph.D. in Anthropology, School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, USA
2000 M.A. Department of Archaeology and History of Art
Bilkent University
Ankara, Turkey
1997 B.A. (magna cum laude) Department of Archaeology and History of Art
Bilkent University
Ankara, Turkey