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