Elvan Cobb
Assistant Professor, Department of History at Hong Kong Baptist University
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Biography
Education
- PhD, Cornell University
- MS, University of Pennsylvania
- BCP, Middle East Technical University
RESEARCH FOCUS
- History of Architecture and Urbanism
- History of the Modern Middle East and the Ottoman Empire
- History of Infrastructure
- History of Archaeology
- History of Travel and Tourism
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"Mixing Time: Ancient‐Modern Intersections along the Western Anatolian Railways." In Producing Non-Simultaneity – Construction Sites as Places of Progressiveness and Continuity, edited by Eike-Christian Heine and Christoph Rauhut. 2018. Ashgate.
"Learning Vicariously: Tourism, Orientalism and the Making of an Architectural Photography Collection of Egypt." Architectural Histories 5(1): 2 (2017): 1-10.
"Politics of Place in the Middle East and the World Heritage Status of Jerusalem." In Sacred Precincts: Non-Muslim Religious Sites in Islamic Territories, edited by Mohammad Gharipour. 2014. Brill.
"Dwelling in Hacıveliler: social-engineering policies in the context of space, place and landscape in rural, western Turkey." Anatolian Studies 63 (2013): 155-173. (co-authored)
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