Master of Arts Theses Completed
2022
- Sena Baskın, LBA I Ceramics from Kinet Höyük Period 15. A Statistical Assessment of the Cross-Regional Standardization of Hittite Ceramics in Late Bronze Age Anatolia (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
2021
- Ege Dağbaşı, Foreigners and Foreignness in Hittite Anatolia (Supervisor: N. İlgi Gerçek)
- Seren Mendeş, Managing Intangible Cultural Heritage in Turkey: Four Cases Originating in Antiquity (Supervisor: Dominique Kassab Tezgör)
- Beril Özbaş, The Socio-political Structure of Western Anatolia during the (L)BA (Supervisor: N. İlgi Gerçek)
- Dilara Uçar Sarıyıldız, Changing Perceptions of Sculptural Polychromy in Europe: From Ancient Greece to the 21st Century (Supervisor: Dominique Kassab Tezgör)
2020
- Defne Dedeoğlu, Green Museums: An Introduction and a Possible Implementation in Ankara (Supervisor: Dominique Kassab Tezgör)
- Yaprak Kısmet Okur, Phoenicians in Cilicia during the Middle Iron Age: The Scope of their Presence (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
2019
- Joseph Salvatore Aversano, The Mother of Gods from Right Here: The Goddess Meter in her Central Anatolian Contexts (Supervisor: Charles Gates)
[2018-19 Kalbiye Tansel ve Çiğdem Barçan Tansel Thesis Award]
- Mustafa Umut Dulun, Persian Period Tombs in Western Anatolia as Reflections of Social and Political Change (Supervisor: Charles Gates)
- Bahattin İpek, Figural Motifs on Halaf Pottery: An Iconographical Study of Late Neolithic Society in Northern Mesopotamia (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
- Tuğçe Köseoğlu, A Phytolith Study from Kinet Höyük, Hatay (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
- Roslyn Sorensen, Rural Administration in Hittite Anatolia (Supervisor: N. İlgi Gerçek)
2018
- Zeynep Akkuzu, The Late Iron Age Pottery from Kaman-Kalehöyük (Supervisor: Dominique Kassab Tezgör)
- Elif Nurcan Aktaş, Palaeolithic Research in Anatolia: History, Problems and Perspectives (Supervisor: Thomas Zimmermann)
- Şakir Can, Continuity and Change: An Annales Approach to the Late Chalcolithic Period in North Mesopotamia (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
- Emre Dalkılıç, Middle Bronze Age Cyprus Inter-site Relationships: A Social Network Analysis Approach (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
- Çağdaş Özdoğan, The Initial State for Early Bronze Age Cyprus: Metallurgy of the Philia Culture from a Maritime Cross-cultural Perspective (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
- Rida Arif Siddiqui, Community Archaeology in Pakistan: Three Sites in Gandhara as a Case Study (Supervisor: Dominique Kassab Tezgör)
2017
- Andrew K. Beard, A Group of Seven Column Capitals from Roman Ancyra: A Unique Composite Style (Supervisor: Julian Bennett)
- Nurcan Küçükarslan, Middle Iron Age Pottery from Yassıhöyük (Kırşehir): A Central Anatolian Assemblage (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
2016
- Hande Köpürlüoğlu, Hittite Rock Reliefs in Southeastern Anatolia as a Religious Manifestation of the Late Bronze and Iron Ages (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
- Katarzyna Kuncewicz, Figural Anatolian Stamp Seals from Three Assyrian Colony Period Sites: Karahöyük-Konya, Acemhöyük and Kültepe (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
- Selim Yıldız, Hellenistic Settlement in Smooth Cilicia (Cilicia Pedias) (Supervisor: Charles Gates)
2015
- Humberto DeLuigi, A Winter in the Land of Rum: Komnenian Defenses Against the Turks in Western Anatolia (Supervisor: Charles Gates)
- Thomas Moore, Old Hittite Polychrome Relief Vases and the Assertion of Kingship in 16th century BCE Anatolia (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
2014
- Leyla Yorulmaz, A Forgotten Borderland: The Upper Tigris between Septimius Severus and Anastasius I (Supervisor: Julian Bennett)
2013
- Sevilay Hacıbekiroğulları Oruç, Harbor Settlement Patterns of the Second Millennium BC in Cilicia and the Amuq (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
- Heves Sökeli, Ceramic Workshops in Hellenistic and Roman Anatolia: Production Characteristics and Regional Comparisons (Supervisors: Jacques Morin & Dominique Kassab Tezgör)
2012
- Burak Arcan, Early Bronze Age Daggers in Central Anatolia (Supervisor: Thomas Zimmermann)
- Deniz A. Enverova, The Transition from Bronze Age to Iron Age in the Aegean: a Heterarchical Approach (Supervisor: Jacques Morin)
- Ayşen Girit, Male Nudity in Ancient Mesopotamian Art (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
2010
- Fevzi Volkan Güngördü, Obsidian, Trade and Society in the Central Anatolian Neolithic (Supervisor: Thomas Zimmermann)
- Müge Durusu Tanrıöver, The Transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age in the Upper Euphrates and the Amuq: A Study of Settlement Patterns (Supervisor: İlknur Özgen)
- Polat Ulusoy, Burial Customs of Clazomenae in the Iron Age (1100-500 BC) (Supervisor: Charles Gates)
2009
- Mehmet Kutlu, Seljuk Caravanserais in the Vicinity of Denizli: Han-abad (Çardakhan) and Akhan (Supervisor: Charles Gates)
2008
- Mert Çatalbaş, Evaluating the Oylum Höyük MBA Painted Ware within the Framework of the Syro-Cilician, Levantine, and Khabur Painted Ceramic Cultures (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
- Filiz Tütüncü, The Land of Beautiful Horses: Stables in Middle Byzantine Settlements of Cappadocia (Supervisor: Charles Gates)
2007
- Banu Ahibay, Theoretical Approaches in Turkish Archaeology (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
- Erica Hughes, Absolute and Relative Dating of Hallan Çemi Tepesi (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
- Pınar Kuşseven, The Cult of Iupiter Dolichenus: Origins and Iconography (Supervisor: Julian Bennett)
- Amir H. Soudipour, An Architectural and Conceptual Analysis of Mesopotamian Temples from the Ubaid to the Old Babylonian Period (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
- Evren Türkmenoğlu, Late Byzantine Ships and Shipping (Supervisor: Charles Gates)
- Ayşegül Vural, Geophysical Exploration of Kinet Höyük: A Comparison of the Magnetic Survey with the Excavation Results (Supervisor: Jacques Morin)
2006
- Aslı Candaş, The Kakasbos/Herakles Cult: A Study of its Origins, Diffusion and Possible Syncretisms (Supervisor: Jacques Morin)
- Esra Çayır, The Study of the Concept of the Sacred
Hearth and Greek Goddess of the Hearth and their Association with the
Prytaneion, its Origins, and its Development (Supervisor: Jacques Morin)
- Bozena Radovan Kabatiarova, Ugaritic Seal
Metamorphoses as a Reflection of the Hittite Administration and the
Egyptian Influence in the Late Bronze Age in Western Syria (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
2004
- Ezgi Akpınar, Hellenistic and Roman Settlement Patterns
in the Plain of Issus and the Amanus Range (Supervisor: Jacques Morin)
- Damjan Donev, St. Erasmus (Lychnid) and St. Thecla (Seleucia):
A Study of Two Early Christian Cultic Centers (Supervisor: Julian Bennett)
- Kadriye Günaydın, Karkamis in the First Millennium B.C.:
Sculpture and Propaganda (Supervisor: İlknur Özgen)
- Genevieve Holdridge, Origins of Pottery Technology
in the Ancient Near East (Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
2003
- İlke Aykanat Çam,
Life at the Top: A Survey of Stylite Saints
(Supervisors: Jean Greenhalgh and Julian Bennett)
- Esen Öğüş,
The Antakya Sarcophagus: Design Elements and the Chronology of the Docimeum Columnar Sarcophagi
(Supervisor: Julian Bennett)
- Dinç Saraç,
History of Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Management in Turkey and Europe: A Look from the Past to the Present
(Supervisor: Julian Bennett)
- Funda Başak Uçar,
Greek Influence in the Anthropomorphic Representation of Deities in Hellenized Asia: Parthia, Nemrut Dağı, and Gandhara
(Supervisor: Charles Gates)
2002
- Sevil Çonka,
Aspects of the Ancient Economy in West-Central Turkey in the First Millenium BC
(Supervisor: Jacques Morin)
- Çiğdem Toskay Evrin,
Tarsus Republic Square: the Late Roman Cooking Wares
(Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
- Alev Tanyar,
The Jews and Christians of Imperial Asia Minor, the Literary and Material Evidence
(Supervisor: Julian Bennett)
2001
- Suna Çağaptay Arıkan,
The Church at Choma (Hacımusalar, Elmalı-Antalya) and Its Materials
(Supervisor: Jean Öztürk)
- Spencer H. Garrett,
Wine Production in Classical Asia Minor
(Supervisor: Julian Bennett)
- Azer Keskin,
Relating Architecture to Social Complexity in the Early Bronze
Age: Southeastern Anatolia
(Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
2000
- Bülent Arıkan,
The Neolithic of Central and Northwestern Anatolia, Thrace and its
Relations with Southeastern Europe
(Supervisor: Barbara Helwing)
- Jason R. De'Block,
The Archaeology and History of Selinus from its Origins to the Reign
of Diocletian
(Supervisor: Julian Bennett)
- Shannon M. Haley,
Caveat Emptor: The Intellectual Consequences of Undocumented
Excavation, with Special Reference to Roman Period Archaeological Material from Turkey
(Supervisor: Julian Bennett)
1999
- Yasemin İlseven,
Elmalı Plain: A Review of its Environmental Setting and Archaeological
Settlements
(Supervisor: İlknur Özgen)
- Ekin Kozal,
The Cypro-Anatolian Connections in the Late Bronze Age
(Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
- Tuğba Tanyeri,
The Nereid Monument Relief Sculptures in Review
(Supervisor: İlknur Özgen)
- Sercan Yandım,
An Historical and Iconographical Study of a Group of Twenty Post
Byzantine Icons in the Antalya Museum
(Supervisor: Charles Gates)
1998
- Susan D. Cooke,
The Monuments of Roman Ancyra Reviewed
(Supervisor: Julian Bennett)
- Günder Varinlioğlu,
The Legacy of the Hippodrome at Constantinople
(Supervisor: Alessandra Ricci)
1997
- Ayşe D. Atauz,
Asardibi (Casara), a Classical, Hellenistic and Early Roman Harbor in
the Rhodian Peraea
(Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
- Harun Kaya,
The Byzantine Fortresses of Yoğuntaş,Keçikalesi and Pınarhisar in the
Kırklareli Region
(Supervisor: Alessandra Ricci)
- Filiz Songu,
Wave-Line Pottery from the Late Iron Age Levels of Kinet Höyük
(Supervisor: Marie-Henriette Gates)
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