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                    [degrees] => PhD in History of Art, MA in Architectural History, B. Architecture
                    [title] => Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies
                    [department] => Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
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                    [summary] => Working in the field of archaeology, architectural history and material culture of the ancient Near East, &#214;m&#252;r Harman&#351;ah's academic interests are increasingly focused on the intersections of architectural space, bodily performance and collective memory. He is particularly influenced by the developing fields of material culture studies, anthropological theories of art, technology and agency, ethnographies of space, place and landscape, and phenomenological approaches to spatiality.
                    [bio] => <a href=http://proteus.brown.edu/harmansah/Home>&#214;m&#252;r Harmansah</a> works and teaches on the archaeology of the ancient Near East, particularly Anatolia, Syria, and Mesopotamia. Born and raised in Turkey, &#214;m&#252;r studied architecture and architectural history at the <a href=http://www.archweb.metu.edu.tr/>Middle East Technical University</a> (Ankara, Turkey), and received his PhD from <a href=http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/>University of Pennsylvania</a> (2005), with a dissertation on the practice of founding cities in the ancient Near East. He currently directs the Brown University funded <a href=http://proteus.brown.edu/eventplace/11>Yalburt Yaylasi Archaeological Landscape Research Project</a>, a diachronic regional survey project addressing questions of place and landscape in Konya Province of west-central Turkey. He is also involved with archaeological projects at <a href=http://sites.museum.upenn.edu/gordion/>Gordion</a> and <a href=http://edebiyat.ege.edu.tr/bolumler/arkeoloji/Protohistorya/English/Projeler/ayanis.htm>Ayanis</a> in Turkey. His first monograph entitled <i>Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East</i> will be published by Cambridge University Press (2012). He previously taught at <a href=http://academic.reed.edu/art/>Reed College</a> (Portland, OR) for three semesters in 2005-2006. His favourite place in the world is <a href=http://proteus.brown.edu/harmansah/4052>Ta&#351;kahve</a> in Ayvalik, Turkey.
                    [interests] => Having been trained as an architect and architectural historian, my research has always been involved with questions of space and spatiality, particularly the social production of space in the ancient Near Eastern world. I am however increasingly interested in questions of place and landscape, especially how archaeological and ethno-historical projects study culturally meaningful places. I am currently working on a monograph that attempts to develop what I call "an archaeology of place". <br />
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Archaeological research is usually dependant upon rigorous fieldwork. In the summer of 2010, I initiated  the Brown University based and funded <a href=http://proteus.brown.edu/eventplace/Home>Yalburt Yaylasi Archaeological Landscape Research Project</a>, a five-year diachronic regional survey project in West-Central Turkey, in the environs of a Hittite (Late Bronze Age) sacred pool complex and dam. I am also currently involved with projects at Gordion and Ayanis in Turkey. At Gordion, a Phrygian site in Central Anatolia, I have been working on the Early Iron age building technologies and more recently the final publication of Middle Phrygian architecture from the site. At Ayanis, I have worked on the use of stone in the architecture of this Urartian city, located on the Eastern shore of Lake Van in Eastern Turkey. Starting in 2007, I have become affiliated with <a href=http://proteus.brown.edu/harmansah/4460>an ethnoarchaeological project at Ayanis</a>, where I took on the task of documenting architectural traditions and building technologies at the nearby village of Ayanis. My first monograph entitled <i>Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East</i> will be published by Cambridge University Press.
                    [fresearch] => 2009-2010   The Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award. Brown University Office of the Vice President for Research. Project title: "Southern Bey&#351;ehir Lake Basin Archaeological Research Project: First Field Season (2009)" Awarded: $15,000.<br />
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2009-2010 Brown University Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies. Project title: "Southern Bey&#351;ehir Lake Basin Archaeological Research Project: First Field Season (2009)" Awarded: $15,000.
                    [awards] => 2010-11   <b>Senior Fellowship at <a href=http://rcac.ku.edu.tr/>Ko&#231; University, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations</a> (Istanbul, Turkey).</b> Supported by a top-up grant from Brown University Dean of Faculty and Provost's Office for junior sabbatical leave.<br />
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2009   <b><a href=http://research.brown.edu/ovpr/awards_salomon_09.php>The Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award.</a></b> Brown University Office of the Vice President for Research. Project title: "Southern Bey&#351;ehir Lake Basin Archaeological Research Project: First Field Season (2009)" <br />
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2009   <b><a href=http://www.brown.edu/cis/services/academic/itg/twt_pastwinners.php>Teaching with Technology Award.</a></b> With the course <a href=http://proteus.brown.edu/intimatestories/Home>Arch 0250 Intimate Stories: Narrative in ancient visual culture</a> (A First Year Seminar - Fall 2008). Computer & Information Services, Vice President/Cio. Computing & Information Services and Dean of the College, Brown University.<br />
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2008   <b>Faculty Lectureship Grant</b>: The Mollie B. Mandeville Lectureship. Brown University, Office of the Dean of Faculty. "Archaeologies of Place and Landscape" Amount: $1,900. <br />
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2008   <b>Course Development Grant</b>. Brown University, Office of the Dean of Faculty. First Year Seminar Course Arch 0250 Intimate Stories: Narrative in Ancient Art.<br />
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2008   International UTRA (Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award) supervising Undergraduate Student Bochay Drum. Office of the Dean of College, Brown University.<br />
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2003   <a href=http://www.grahamfoundation.org/support/carter-awards.asp>Carter Manny Citation of Special Recognition Award.</a> Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, for the dissertation in progress.<br />
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2003  Dean's Scholar, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania.<br />
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1999-2003 Kolb Fellowship; Louis J. Kolb Foundation at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. <br />
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1997-1999  Williams Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Department of the History of Art. <br />
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1997  Prof. Dr. Mustafa N. Parlar Education and Research Foundation Thesis Award. Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey).
                    [affiliations] => <a href=http://www.archaeological.org/>Archaeological Institute of America</a><br><a href=http://www.collegeart.org/>College Art Association</a><br><a href=http://www.sah.org/>The Society of Architectural Historians</a><br><a href=http://www.asor.org/> American Schools of Oriental Research</a><br><a href=http://www.orientgesellschaft.de/>Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft</a> <br><a href=http://www.biaa.ac.uk/>British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara</a>
                    [teaching] => Most of my teaching has so far focused on the intersection of two major fields of inquiry: art, architecture and material culture of the ancient Near East on the one hand, and the archaeological, architectural, and art-historical theories used in the study of the ancient world on the other. I plan to continue teaching courses that focus on the intersections of contemporary theory and the archaeological evidence, with particular emphasis on theories of material culture and architectural space and a broad geographical focus on the ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean world (especially <a href=http://proteus.brown.edu/mesopotamianarchaeology/Home>Mesopotamia</a>, Anatolia, Syria, Iran, Egypt and the Levant). I do favor thematically designed courses such as those that I have taught so far: "<a href=http://proteus.brown.edu/architecturebodyperformance/Home>Architecture, Body, and Performance</a>," "<a href=http://brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/Harmansah/art336/index.html>Architecture and Memory</a>" and "<a href=http://proteus.brown.edu/materialworlds/Home>Material Worlds</a>", and I plan to design new courses that engage with bodies of theoretical discourse and pursue new readings of relevant art-historical and architectural material, especially those that relate to issues of space, body, representation, gender and sexuality, performance, ideology and social memory.<br><br />
You can reach the web pages of each course I have taught <a href=http://proteus.brown.edu/harmansah/1399>here</a>. Recent courses include my graduate seminars <a href=http://proteus.brown.edu/archaeologiesofplace/Home>Archaeologies of Place</a> and <a href=http://proteus.brown.edu/riseofstate/Home>The Rise (and Demise) of the State in the Near East</a>; graduate/undergraduate courses <a href=http://proteus.brown.edu/architectureandmemory/Home>Architecture and Memory</a> and <a href=http://proteus.brown.edu/modernmiddleeast10/Home>Under the Tower of Babel: Archaeology, Politics, and Identity in the Modern Middle East</a>; First Year Seminar <a href=http://proteus.brown.edu/intimatestories/Home>Intimate Stories</a>.
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	<p><strong>Overview</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="javascript:set_html('','/research/profile_myresearch.php?id=1184789448','researcher-pages');">Research</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="javascript:set_html('','/research/profile_grants.php?id=1184789448','researcher-pages');">Grants/Awards</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="javascript:set_html('','/research/profile_teaching.php?id=1184789448','researcher-pages');">Teaching</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="javascript:set_html('','/research/profile_publications.php?id=1184789448','researcher-pages');">Publications</a></p><p><img src="/images/subhead/biography.gif" alt="Biography" width="225" height="16" style="padding-top:10px;"></p><p><a href=http://proteus.brown.edu/harmansah/Home>&#214;m&#252;r Harmansah</a> works and teaches on the archaeology of the ancient Near East, particularly Anatolia, Syria, and Mesopotamia. Born and raised in Turkey, &#214;m&#252;r studied architecture and architectural history at the <a href=http://www.archweb.metu.edu.tr/>Middle East Technical University</a> (Ankara, Turkey), and received his PhD from <a href=http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/>University of Pennsylvania</a> (2005), with a dissertation on the practice of founding cities in the ancient Near East. He currently directs the Brown University funded <a href=http://proteus.brown.edu/eventplace/11>Yalburt Yaylasi Archaeological Landscape Research Project</a>, a diachronic regional survey project addressing questions of place and landscape in Konya Province of west-central Turkey. He is also involved with archaeological projects at <a href=http://sites.museum.upenn.edu/gordion/>Gordion</a> and <a href=http://edebiyat.ege.edu.tr/bolumler/arkeoloji/Protohistorya/English/Projeler/ayanis.htm>Ayanis</a> in Turkey. His first monograph entitled <i>Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East</i> will be published by Cambridge University Press (2012). He previously taught at <a href=http://academic.reed.edu/art/>Reed College</a> (Portland, OR) for three semesters in 2005-2006. His favourite place in the world is <a href=http://proteus.brown.edu/harmansah/4052>Ta&#351;kahve</a> in Ayvalik, Turkey.</p><p><img src="/images/subhead/curriculumvitae.gif" alt="Curricum Vitae" width="225" height="16" style="padding-top:10px;"></p><p><a href="/pdf/1184789448.pdf?nocache=1653492730">Download Omur Harmansah's Curriculum Vitae in PDF Format</a></p></div>
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    <img src="/images/headshot/1184789448.jpg?nocache=164813584"><p>OMUR HARMANSAH, PhD in History of Art, MA in Architectural History, B. Architecture<br />Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies<br />Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World<br />Phone: +1 401 863 6411<br />Phone 2: +1 401 421 1641<br />E-mail: <a href="mailto:Omur_Harmansah@brown.edu">Omur_Harmansah@brown.edu</a></p>Omur Harmansah's Brown Research URL:<br />
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