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Zeynep Celik, PhD

Zeynep Celik, PhD	Zeynep Celik, PhD, is a professor of architecture at NJIT's New Jersey School of Architecture, where she currently is teaching two courses: a history of architecture survey for graduate students and an honors seminar on architectural criticism. In 2004, Celik received a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship. The Guggenheim Foundation selected Celik on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. She was one of 185 scholars, artists and scientists to win a Guggenheim, awarded yearly to Americans and Canadians. Celik’s publications include The Remaking of Istanbul (1986), Displaying the Orient (1992), Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations (1997), and Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space (1994; co-editor), as well as numerous articles on cross-cultural topics. From 2000 to 2003, she served as the editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. She received her bachelor’s degree in architecture in 1975 from Istanbul Technical University; her master’s in architecture in 1978 from Rice University; and her doctorate in 1984 from the University of California, Berkeley.

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