Project Team

A sample page from Henrietta Liston’s journal drafts

The project team brings together specialists with expertise in early modern and nineteenth-century English Literature, travel writing, Orientalism, Ottoman history and culture, diplomatic history, and manuscript studies and curation.

Team Members

Patrick Hart (Bilkent, English Literature)

Mehmet Kalpakli (Bilkent, History & Turkish Literature)

Valerie Kennedy (Bilkent, English Literature)

Ă–zden Mercan (Bilkent / Columbia University Italian Academy)

Dora Petherbridge (Curator, U.S. and Commonwealth Collections, National Library of Scotland)

Kenneth Weisbrode (Bilkent, History)