Elvan Cobb

Education

• PhD, Cornell University
• MS, University of Pennsylvania
• BCP, Middle East Technical University

RESEARCH FOCUS

• History of Architecture and Urbanism
• History of the Modern Middle East and the Ottoman Empire
• History of Infrastructure
• History of Archaeology
• History of Travel and Tourism

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"Mixing Time: Ancient‐Modern Intersections along the Western Anatolian Railways." In Producing Non-Simultaneity – Construction Sites as Places of Progressiveness and Continuity, edited by Eike-Christian Heine and Christoph Rauhut. 2018. Ashgate.

"Learning Vicariously: Tourism, Orientalism and the Making of an Architectural Photography Collection of Egypt." Architectural Histories 5(1): 2 (2017): 1-10.

"Politics of Place in the Middle East and the World Heritage Status of Jerusalem." In Sacred Precincts: Non-Muslim Religious Sites in Islamic Territories, edited by Mohammad Gharipour. 2014. Brill.

"Dwelling in Hacıveliler: social-engineering policies in the context of space, place and landscape in rural, western Turkey." Anatolian Studies 63 (2013): 155-173. (co-authored)