Betül Başaran, associate professor of religious studies, received a fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. for the academic year 2018-19, in support of her sabbatical project, “Cross-Cultural Intimacy and Marriage between Europeans and Ottoman Women in the Early Modern Era.” The fellowship provides support for up to a three-month residence at the Folger.
Fellowships are awarded by a committee of interdisciplinary, highly-respected scholars external to the Folger, who make recommendations on the basis of each project’s scope, promise, and high quality. Başaran’s project was judged to have exceptional merit. Basaran gave a lecture in March at the Library of Congress on a related topic of the nature of Ottoman sharia law and women’s roles and rights.