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