Shirine Hamadeh, Associate Professor

Shirine Hamadeh completed her PhD in History, Theory and Criticism at MIT, in 1999. Her book, The City’s Pleasures: Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century (Seattle and London: The University of Washington Press, 2007), will appear in Turkish translation with Iletisim Press in Winter 2010. She has published in Muqarnas, The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and various edited volumes. She is the recipient of several awards including the 1999 Malcom Kerr Best Dissertation Award in the Humanities, a Dumbarton Oaks Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1999-2000,  NEH-ARIT Fellowships in 2000-2001 and 2010, and a Getty Fellowship in 2005-2006. She is currently developing a new book project on the streets of Istanbul in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Curriculum Vitae

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 Office Phone: 713-348-3796

 Email: shirine@rice.edu