Koray Durak
Ph.D., 2008, Harvard University
(90) (212) 359 6607
TB 410B
Byzantine history; Medieval Islam; Byzantine-Islamic relations; Medieval geographical imagination; Economic history of the Medieval Mediterranean; Byzantine commerce; Byzantine pharmacology
Mellon Foundation, Boğaziçi University fellowship, 2016-2022
BAP-Commerce in medicinal items between Byzantines and Islamic World in the Middle Ages- 2013-2016
Visiting researcher, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC..2013
TÜBA-GEBİP/The Young Scientists Award Programme of the Turkish Academy of Sciences- 2011-2013
HIST 241: Introduction to Western European, Mediterranean, and Islamic Civilizations
HIST 335 History of the Byzantine Empire, 4-9 Centuries
HIST 49K.01: SP. TP. History of Byzantium (330-1453), Columbia University and Boğaziçi University summer school in Istanbul
HIST 59R: SP.TP. Readings in Byzantine Sources
HIST 49L: SP. TP. Trade, Exchange, and Communications in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Early Middle Ages
HIST 58L SP. TP. Research Methods in Byzantine History
HIST 489 Early Byzantine Sources
Books:
2024 (in preparation) (as chief editor) Provisioning of Late Antique Constantinople: Annona Civilis and Beyond, Brill.
2024 (in preparation) (ed. With Nevra Necipoğlu), Mobility and Materiality in Byzantine-Islamic Relations, 7th-12th Centuries, Routledge.
2023 The Odyssey of Byzantine Studies in Turkey, Koç University Press.
2022 (ed. with Nevra Necipoğlu and Tolga Uyar), Türkiye'de Bizans Çalışmaları: Yeni Araştırmalar, Farklı Trendler [Byzantine Studies in Turkey: New Research, Alternative Trends], İş Bankası Publications, Istanbul.
2019 (ed. with Ivana Jevtic) Identity and the Other in Byzantium, Papers from the Fourth International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium, Koç University Press, Istanbul.
Articles/book chapters:
2024 (in preparation) "Islamic and Byzantine medicine: Adaptations and Exchanges" in A Companion to Byzantine Medicine, eds. I. Grimm-Stadelmann and D. Valentino. Brill, Leiden.
2023 “The Popular Perception of Byzantium in Contemporary Turkish Culture,” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 47/1, 123-139.
2022 "The Economy of Melitene/Malaṭya and its Role in the Byzantine-Islamic Trade (Seventh to Eleventh Centuries)," Byzantinische Zeitschrift 115(3), 829-874.
2022, "The Use of Non-commercial Networks for the Study of Byzantium's Foreign Trade with the Islamic Near East," Plenary Sessions of the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Edizioni Ca' Foscari, Venice.
2021 "The Commercial History of Trebizond and the Region of Pontos from the Seventh to the Eleventh Centuries: An International Emporium," Mediterranean Historical Review, 36/1, 3-41
2020 “Commercial Constantinople,” in Cambridge Companion to Constantinople, ed. S. Basset, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
2014 "The Representation of Byzantine History in High School Textbooks in Turkey" Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 38/2, 245-264.
2010, June "Who are the Romans? The Definition of Bilād al-Rūm (Land of the Romans) in Medieval Islamic Geographies," Journal of Intercultural Studies, 31/3, 285-298.
2009 "Constantinople, réalités et utopies médiévales," De Byzance à Istanbul, Un port pour deux continent (catalogue for the exhibition at Grand Palais in Paris in 2009), eds. Nazan Ölçer and Edhem Eldem, Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 75-89.
Son Güncelleme: 18:06:07 - 03.12.2024
