Mesut Dinler
Job Title: Assistant Professor
Institutional affiliation: Politecnico di Torino
(PhD, 2018, Politecnico di Torino, Italy). Assistant professor in the Department of Regional & Urban Studies and Planning. He was involved in various international conservation projects including projects managed by Historic Charleston Foundation with US/ICOMOS, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Association for the Protection of Cultural Heritage. Currently, he is involved in the management of heritage-related research projects and teaches Digital Urban History courses. His research interests include urban heritage, politics of heritage, urban history, social movements, digital humanities
Publications
Dinler, M.(2021). “A Political Framework for Understanding Heritage Dynamics in Turkey (1950-1980)”, Urban History. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S096392682100016X
Dinler, M. “Troubled Urban Heritage in Istanbul: Simkeshane as a case study.” ArchHistor, 2021 – forthcoming.
Dinler, M. (2020). “Formulation of Historic Residential Architecture as a Background to Urban Conservation”, Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, 11(1): 1-17.
Dinler, M. (2019). Modernization through Past: Cultural Heritage during the late-Ottoman and the early-Republican period in Turkey, Pisa: Edizioni ETS.
Dinler, M. (2021 – forthcoming). “Boiling Frog: Establishing Authority over Historic Towns under Emergency”, In Cayli, E., Ercan, S., Aykac, P. (Eds.), Architectures of Emergency in Turkey: Heritage, Displacement and Catastrophe, London; IB.Tauris