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Dr Gonul Bozoglu

Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 1740

Email

gb235@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

I am a Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies. My current work is about engaging with marginalised communities whose heritages have been suppressed. Although I’m interested in this problem at a global scale, I work in particular with the Greek Communities of Istanbul. This involves working with minority Greek-Istanbuli groups in Istanbul and Athens to develop online 'memory maps' and a documentary film. The project aims to save community memories at risk, giving voice, and increasing awareness and visibility of hidden or silenced memories that are rarely recognised in official heritage. My work links anthropological heritage and memory research with digital practice and filmmaking. My current memory map is available  and documentary film is .

After an MPhil on Ottoman art at Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul and an MA in Museum Studies at Newcastle University, I worked in museums in the UK and on archaeological excavations in the Middle East. I then returned to study with a Ph.D. at  at Humboldt University in Berlin, with a thesis on Turkish historical museums and memory cultures. This turned into my first book . I am currently working on a new book: Worlds of Memory and Sensory Heritage: Living with the Past in the Greek Communities of Istanbul, under contract with Routledge. 

I was a Research Associate on the EU-funded project e project and the Katip Çelebi Newton Fund project . Each of these has led to book publications including:  and .

I am a series co-editor with Prof Laurajane Smith at The Australian National University: .

I have made two major documentary films. The first, , co-directed with Dr Cem Hakverdi. It has been screened in public events in Greece, Turkey, Australia, Germany and the UK. It was shortlisted for 2021 AHRC Research Film of the Year, won the best second- award at the London Greek Film Festival in 2021, was selected for Chania Film Festival 2022, and is available on the Greek national TV channel, . My most recent film, co-directed with Dr Evripidis Karydis, is The Journey and the Grief. This film won best documentary at the London Greek Film Festival 2023. The film premiere's took place at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle. It will be available online soon. The films are part of a trilogy that examines the histories, heritages, and experiences of the Greek populations of Turkey, exploring themes connected to forced displacement, marginalisation, belonging, and memory practice across generations. I am currently working on the final film in the trilogy.

PhD supervision

• Malak Al Chmari
• Katrina Dungay
• Clare Murphy
• Emerson Norteman
• Yizhi Yao

Selected publications

• Open access
  Kristensen, T. M., Nørskov, V. & Bozoglu, G., 21 Mar 2024, Rooted cosmopolitanism, heritage and the question of belonging: archaeological and anthropological perspectives. Kruijer, L. W., Versluys, M. J. & Lilley, I. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 158-178 21 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access
  Bozoglu, G., 26 Apr 2024, Transnational island museologies. Brown, K., Brown, J. A. & González Rueda, A. S. (eds.). Paris: ICOFOM, p. 146-149 4 p. (ICOFOM materials for discussion).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Bozoglu, G. (Editor), Campbell, G. (Editor), Smith, L. (Editor) & Whitehead, C. (Editor), 2 Apr 2024, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 618 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Bozoglu, G., 2 Apr 2024, Routledge international handbook of heritage and politics. Bozoglu, G., Campbell, G., Smith, L. & Whitehead, C. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 347-349 3 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Smith, L., Whitehead, C., Campbell, G. & Bozoglu, G., 2 Apr 2024, Routledge international handbook of heritage and politics. Bozoglu, G., Campbell, G., Smith, L. & Whitehead, C. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 3-18 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access
  Bozoglu, G., 8 Sept 2023

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site

• Whitehead, C., Schofield, T. & Bozoglu, G., 15 Apr 2021, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 195 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Kristensen, T. M., Nørskov, V. & Bozoglu, G., 1 Feb 2021, In: Journal of Social Archaeology . 21, 1, p. 97-120 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Bozoglu, G., 2020, European Memory in Populism: Representations of Self and Other (edited by De Cesari, C. and Kaya, A.). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Bozoglu, G., 2020, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 232 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book