Yeliz Teber
Address:
Khalili Research Centre (KRC), 3 St John Street, Oxford, OX1 2LG, UK
yeliz.teber@ames.ox.ac.uk
Education:
2016-2024: DPhil (=PhD) in AMES, University of Oxford
Supervisor: Associate Professor Zeynep Yürekli
Thesis Title: A Sheikh Family in the Ottoman Empire: The Çelebis at the Convent of Hacı Bektaş, 1470s-1820s
2014-2016: MPhil (=MA) in Islamic Art and Architecture, University of Oxford (Distinction)
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Zeynep Yürekli
Dissertation Title: Legend and Architectural Patronage in the Balkans: Sarı Saltuk in the Ottoman Political Context
Selected Fellowships & Scholarships & Grants & Awards:
2024-2027: Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship
2023-2024: Barakat Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship
2023: British Institute at Ankara, Doughty-Wylie Travel Grant
2016-2023: KRC Scholarships
2022: Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Kizilbash/Alevi-Bektashi History Workshop
2021: Historians of Islamic Art Association, Grabar Travel Grant
2019 & 2017: Barakat Trust Travel Grants
2018: E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust, Centenary Research Scholarship
2017-2018: Barakat Trust Oxford Studentship
2017: Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, Vangelis Kechriotis Memorial Travel Grant
2014-2016: Barakat Trust Junior Student Scholarship
Selected Teaching Experience:
2023 &2024: Tutor, Islamic History (Ottomans module), AMES, University of Oxford
2022: Workshop Lecturer at UNIQ course, AMES, University of Oxford
2022: Tutor, Islamic Art and Architecture, KRC, University of Oxford
2020-2021: Lecturer of Ottoman Texts Reading Group, KRC & AMES, University of Oxford
Research Experience:
2014-Present: Conducted library, archival and museum research, and surveyed and documented Ottoman buildings, building remains and gravestones in Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Albania
Feb. 2017-Oct. 2018: Worked as a research assistant at Assoc. Prof. Zeynep Yürekli’s project, funded by the John Fell Fund, and titled ‘Clash of civilizations’ in late medieval Southwest Asia: Interfaith transference of sacred sites and shrines in Anatolia/Thrace and the Indian subcontinent.
Forthcoming Publication:
‘The Leadership of the Convent of Hacı Bektaş: The Spiritual Descent of the Çelebis in Light of New Evidence’, in New Horizons in Kizilbash/Alevi-Bektashi History, ed. by Cemal Kafadar, Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, and Hakan Karateke (Academic Studies Press)
Conference Papers:
30 May 2024: ‘The Seals and Amulets of the Shrine of Hacı Bektaş: Writing Alevi-Bektashi Cultural History through Internal Sources’, in KRC Seminar Series, University of Oxford
5-7 July 2023: ‘The Spiritual Descent of the Çelebis in Light of New Evidence’, in First Biennial International Conference of Alevism Studies, University of Westminster
29-30 April-1 May 2022: ‘The Establishment of the Leadership at the Shrine of Hacı Bektaş: The Spiritual Descent of the Çelebis in Light of New Evidence’, in New Horizons in Kizilbash/Alevi-Bektashi History Workshop, co-organized by Harvard University and William and Mary College
30-31 October 2021: ‘Tracing the Life of Kızıl Deli from Anatolia to Thrace’, in Bektashism in the Southern Balkans: A Symposium in Memory of Efstratios Zenginis, co-organized by Harvard University and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, e-Conference
20-22 October 2021: ‘Muslim “Heretics” in Ottoman Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries’, in Radical Religious Communities in Premodern Societies, Tábor, Czech Republic
Research Interests:
Renunciatory dervish groups in pre-modern Eastern Europe and Middle East
Bektashis and Kizilbash/Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia and Balkans
Sufi shrines, material, book, and visual culture
Legends and historiography
