[MGSA-L] Vangelis Kechriotis Memorial Travel Grant

Karen Rhoads Van Dyck vandyck at columbia.edu
Tue Nov 24 10:12:20 PST 2015


Dear Colleagues,

I pass on this note from Christine Philliou. Please spread the word!

All my best, Karen


*Vangelis Kechriotis Memorial Travel Grant*

*Appeal for Donations*



Dear Friends and Colleagues,



The Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA) has established a
graduate student travel-research fellowship in memory of Vangelis
Kechriotis. We have already raised the money for the first few years, but
would like to raise enough to endow a fund that would allow for the
fellowship to be given in perpetuity. If we get 20 donations of $500 we’re
there. That said, no amount is too small and we would welcome donations of
any amount, even $5-10. If you are in the US and can send a check, please
make it out to OTSA (address info below), with a note on the check that it
should go to the Vangelis Fund. If you have any questions or suggestions on
how to raise more funds, please contact me (Christine Philliou;
philliou at berkeley.edu), Julia Phillips-Cohen (Julia.p.cohen at vanderbilt.edu)
or Heather Ferguson, OTSA Treasurer (email below).





Vangelis Kechriotis (1969-2015) was a historian, journalist, and public
intellectual in both Greece and Turkey. He was born in Greece but moved to
Istanbul in 2000, where he settled, made a beautiful family, and
established himself as a beloved professor in the History Department at Bo
ğaziçi University. He specialized in modern Greek and late Ottoman History,
working on topics such as the political involvement of the Greek community
of Izmir in the Second Constitutional period, and the life of one
Greek-Ottoman parliamentarian from Izmir. But Vangelis’ interests and
activities were much broader than that; he worked tirelessly to collaborate
with others in many countries toward to goal of writing and disseminating
new kinds of inclusive, post-nationalist histories of late Ottoman society.
He was an active member of Tarih Vakfı in Turkey and of the journal
*Historein* in Greece, a regular contributor of political analysis to
prominent newspapers in both Greece and Turkey, and participated in
countless conferences the world over and collected volumes. More than all
of this, even, he was an unusually kind and earnest person who sought to
heal rifts on all levels—interpersonal, intellectual, historical, and
political—and was not afraid to take risks to stand up for social justice,
democracy, and peace. We believe that now more than ever, given what is
going on in the world—and sadly, now that we have lost Vangelis—we as a
field should memorialize his contribution, and mark his spirit of activism
and intellectual dedication—by raising funds for a memorial travel grant in
his honor. And what better group to come to the aid of than graduate
students? Vangelis taught hundreds of students over the years at Boğaziçi,
many of whom have gone on to become scholars in their own right. With this
grant, one graduate student a year will receive $500 toward their travel
costs in conducting research broadly related to the fields Vangelis was
engaged in. We appeal to you—his friends, his students, his colleagues—to
contribute to this cause, and help us keep the memory of Vangelis and the
worthy causes he believed in alive.







*Send checks to the Vangelis Fund, at:*

*Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association*






* Treasurer Heather Ferguson Assistant Professor, History Claremont McKenna
College 850 Columbia Ave Claremont, CA 91711 e-mail: **secretariattsa at gmail.com
<secretariattsa at gmail.com>*


-- 
Karen Van Dyck
Kimon A. Doukas Chair and Director
Program in Hellenic Studies
Classics Department, Columbia University
http://hellenic.columbia.edu
Byzantine and Modern Greek Encounters
<http://columbia.studioabroad.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10583>
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