Visiting Fellows

Prof Aftandil Erkinov, Uzbek State University of Language and Literature, Tashkent, was visiting fellow at the Centre for Anatolian and East Mediterranean Studies from 1-15 May 2017. Prof Erkinov specialises in classical Turkish and Persian literature and manuscripts.

Dr Keelan Overton, an Independent Scholar based in Santa Barbara, California, was visiting fellow at the Centre for Anatolian and East Mediterranean Studies from May 11–23, 2018. This is her second visit to St Andrews. Keelan first visited in July-August 2016 as a Visiting Fellow of the University Library to research the most famous Islamic manuscript in Special Collections, the St Andrews Qur’an. This time she participated in the Imagined Geographies workshop hosted by the Centre (11–12 May) with a paper entitled ‘The St Andrews Qur’an: A Palimpsest of Timurid, Safavid, Mughal, and Deccani worlds’. She then stayed on to conduct further research on the manuscript in question.

Prof. Amanda Phillips, Assistant Professor at the McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia, was awarded a British Academy Visiting Fellowship to join the School of History from July to December 2018. She was hosted at the Centre for Anatolian and East Mediterranean Studies to work on a project entitled ‘Ottomans and Serbians, Sultans and Monks: Material Cross Culture ca 1400.’

Dr Ivana Jevtic, Koc University Istanbul, was visiting fellow at the Centre from 1-30 July 2019. She is working on a project on ‘Classical Legacy in Thirteenth Century Anatolia: Sculptural Spolia in the Walls and Gates of Constantinople, Nicaea and Konya’.

Prof Rustam Shukurov is visiting fellow at the Centre from 2022 to 2024. His research focuses on relations between Byzantium and Asia. Recent publications include The Byzantine Turks, 1204–1461 (Leiden, 2016).