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Paolo Girardelli
Paolo Girardelli, Professor at Boğaziçi University, works on the architectural and visual history of European and non-Muslim presence in late-Ottoman cities. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Naples in 1996, with a dissertation on Italian architects in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Istanbul. He was Aga Khan Fellow at MIT in 2005–06, chercheur invité at the Institut National de l’Histoire de l’Art (INHA, Paris) in 2013, and in 2015–16 was Senior Fellow at Koç University, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED). He is currently working on a book project, provisionally titled Landscapes of the Eastern Question: Architecture and Identity in Galata, Pera and the Bosporus.