YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies Early Career Article Prize
Istanbul Research Institute supports innovative scholarship by early-career researchers through YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies Early Career Article Prize. Every year, the winning entry will be selected by YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies Advisory and Editorial boards and among articles sent for publication in YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies and shortlisted by its reviewers.
The prize is given to English or Turkish language articles, written on a significant subject matter, strong in linguistic expression, regardless of discipline or historical period, which can contribute to the field of Istanbul Studies, and which are methodologically sound with potential to initiate further discussion.
The authors of those articles that will be shortlisted for the prize must be doctoral students, or they must have defended their doctoral theses within the last 5 years.
Authors pledge that the articles have not been previously published in any language, and that their articles will be featured in YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies as an original work.
The award includes an honorarium updated annually and a 5-year subscription to the print edition of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies.
Awardees
2025: Utku Can Akın & Mustafa Türkan - Ships to Wreck: Petar Zoranić Collided with World Harmony in the Bosphorus
Honorable Mention: İhsan Sefa Özer - Ayazma Kapı'da Tartışmalı Bir Arazi: On Dokuzuncu Yüzyıl İstanbul'unda Bir Kentsel Mülkiyetin Biyografisi
2024: Günseli Gürel - Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Narratives on the Hagia Sophia Reconsidered
2022: Orçun Can Okan – Projections of Xenophobia: The Capitulations, Employment, and Anglo-Turkish Relations in the 1920s
2021: Ezgi Dikici – Eunuchs and the City: Residences and Real Estate Owned by Court Eunuchs in Late Sixteenth-Century Istanbul
2020: Akif Ercihan Yerlioğlu – “‘May Those Who Understand What I Wrote Remember This Humble One’: Paratextual Elements in Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Medical Manuscripts”
2019: Nilay Özlü – “Silent Guardians of the Regime: The ‘Lost’ Police Stations of the Topkapı Palace”
