Trained as an architect, scholarly endeavor by Dr. Meral Ekincioglu is based on problem-centered research in architecture. More specifically, she is a scholar in postwar architecture history and the subjects of her academic study are politics of gender, multiculturalism, diversity and inclusion in her expertise field. In this respect, she conducted her advanced academic research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture Program. Awarded by a Society of Architectural Historian fellowship, she presented her advanced academic research project at their international conference in St. Paul, Minnesota and invited by several leading academic programs as a speaker and panelist in her expertise field in the US.

Based on her Ph.D. dissertation research and academic appointments at Harvard University (special Turkish fellow, 2006-2007) and Columbia University (research scholar, 2008-2009), she clarified essential research problem, main hypothesis, theoretical framework and methodology of research in the US; and obtained her Ph.D. degree in Architecture on the practice history of Sisa-Tekeli-Hepguler Architecture (1954, Istanbul-present) at ITU (2011). Her secondary academic fields are sociology, theory and the modern history of the architecture profession, modernization of architectural design practice, relationship between the design architect and the client, and their historical thresholds in postwar Turkey.

Dr. Ekincioglu has been working on her book project on her Ph.D. dissertation following her academic research studies in the US. as she submitted its official document to ITU (2011).

For more on her scholarly background, research projects and studies: meralekincioglu.com

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MIT (Visiting scholar 2014-2016); Columbia University (research scholar, 2008-2009); Harvard University (research fellow, 2006-2007); ITU (Ph.D. degree in Architecture, 2011).

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