MEHMET KUTLU

+90(258) 296 3533, mehmetkutlu@ pau.edu.tr

CURRENT POSITION

Pamukkale University Denizli, Turkey

Assistant Professor                                                                                                    2018-Present

EDUCATION

Ege University İzmir, Turkey

PhD, Art History (Turkish and Islamic Art)                                                                   May 2017

Dissertation: The Medical Institutions at Anatolia during the 12th -14th Centuries

Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey

M.A, Archaeology and History of Art                                                                                   2009

Thesis: Seljuk Caravanserais in the Vicinity of Denizli: Han-abad (Çardakhan) and Akhan

Pamukkale University Denizli, Turkey

B.A, Department of Primary Education, Faculty of Education                                              2006

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

B.A, Archaeology and History of Art 2005

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Full Scholarship, Bilkent University, Department of Archaeology and History of Art,

Graduate (M.A.) Program                                                                                                2005- 2009

Full Scholarship, Bilkent University, Department of Archaeology and History of Art, Undergraduate Program (with the result of University Entrance Exam of Turkey in 2000)                   2000-2005

FIELD STUDIES

Elmalı Hacımusalar Mound Excavations (Medieval Byzantine period)

Summer of 2005, 2007, 2008                                                                                     Antalya, Turkey

Divriği Castle Excavations (Anatolian Seljuk period)                                                   Sivas, Turkey

Summer of 2018- ongoing

PUBLICATIONS

“Hilal ve Ay-Yıldız Motifi: Sembolik ve İdeolojik Kullanım” (Nejdet Gök’le birlikte), Doğu Batı 31 (2005) 267-287; (Use of Symbol of Crescent and Moon with Star" and their Ideological Meaning)

“XIV-XV. Yüzyıllara ait Osmanlı Camilerinde Görülen Almaşık Duvar Üzerine Gözlemler” Sanat Tarihi Dergisi 26/1 (2017) 131-153; (Observations on the Alternating Brick and Stone Walls of Ottoman Mosques from the 14th and 15th Centuries) “Kayeri Çifte Medrese’de Gevher Nesibe Darüşşifası’nın Konumu Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme” Sanat Tarihi Dergisi 26/2 (2017) 363-377; (An Assessment on the Location of Gevher Nesibe' Dar' Al-Shifa in Çifte Medrese at Kayseri)

“Mimari ve Tarihi Bağlamda Akhan Kervansarayı Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme” s. 772-799, Yeditepe Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümü, I. Uluslararası Türk Kültürü ve Tarihi Sempozyumu (19-20-21 Nisan 2018) Bildiri Kitabı, ed. A Taşağıl, A. Kar, A. Büyükaksoy ve A. Müderrisoğlu, İstanbul (2018); (The Historical and Architectural Contextualization of Akhan Caravanserai)

Book Review “Eski Türklerin Şiveet Ulaan Mezar-Kült Kompleksi (Ancient Turkic Cult and Memorial Complex on the Mount Shiveet Ulaan, ed. Z. Samashev, et all” Journal of Old Turkic Studies 2/2 (2018) 154-157; (Ancient Turkic Cult and Memorial Complex on the Mount Shiveet Ulaan)

LINGUISTIC ABILITY

Turkish (Native), English (Proficient), Ottoman Turkish (Matbu, Rik’a) and Turkic Languages (Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Turkmen) - Classical Arabic and Persian (Reading knowledge)

TEACHING AND ADVISING EXPERIENCE

Pamukkale University, Department of Art History, Denizli, Turkey

(Assistant Professor Dr.)                                                                                             2018- Present

Pamukkale University, Department of Art History, Denizli, Turkey

(Research Assistant Dr.)                                                                                                 2017- 2018

Given Courses

Fall-2018

1) Seljuk Art I – (Karakhanid, Gaznavid and Great Seljuk Art and Architecture: Ribats, Tombs, Mosques, Minarets.);

2) Seljuk Art III – (Anatolian Seljuk Madrasas, Hospitals, Baths, and Tombs);

3) Pre- Islamic Turkic Art and Architecture I (Prehistoric cultures of Central Asia, Kurgan Art of Scythian and Hun periods);

4) Heritage Preservation and Museology I (Concept of Historic Environment, Criteria for Cultural Heritage Management, Restoration Techniques),

5) Undergraduate Senior Thesis I (Supervisor)

6) Anatolian Seljuk Art I (Seminar, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Pamukkale University)

7) Art History (Undergraduate Course, Faculty of Architecture of Design, Pamukkale University)

8) Terminology in Art History I (Undergraduate Course, Faculty of Tourism)

Spring-2018

1) Seljuk Art II – (Anatolian Seljuk Mosques and Masjids);

2) Seljuk Art IV – (Anatolian Seljuk Caravanserais, Baths, Palaces and Kiosks);

3) Pre- Islamic Turkic Art and Architecture II (Periods of Turkic Khaganate and Uigur Khaganate);

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Pamukkale University, Department of Art History,                                                    Denizli, Turkey

(Research Assistant Dr.) 2017- 2018

Ege University, Department of Art History, Bornova,                                                   İzmir, Turkey

(Research Assistant) 2012- 2017

Pamukkale University, Department of Art History,                                                    Denizli, Turkey

(Research Assistant.) 2011- 2012

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