Batuhan Özdemir is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the BIAA–Bilkent University Joint Fellowship Programme. He received his PhD in Archaeology from Durham University with a thesis entitled _Framing Charles Fellows’s Lycian Collection in the British Museum: Geopolitics and Cultural Identities in the 19th Century_. His postdoctoral project, _The British Empire and its ‘National Museum’: Charles Fellows’s Lycian Expeditions and Imperial Collecting in the 1840s, examines Anglo-Ottoman diplomacy, the role of Charles Fellows, and the logistics of the Lycian expeditions. These expeditions, backed by the Royal Navy and superintended by Fellows, marked the first instance of British state-sponsored collecting in the Ottoman Mediterranean and reflected the early shift from early antiquarian practices to emerging archaeological approaches. During his doctorate, he presented papers at several international conferences and co-organised events on heritage politics. He is currently preparing parts of his research for publication and developing his dissertation into a monograph on the British Museum’s Lycian collections.