Biography
I obtained my B.A in Archaeology and History of Art and my minor in International Relations at Koç University in Istanbul in 2016. Although I am mainly trained in Anatolian archaeology and heritage studies, I have always been fascinated by archaeological human remains.
To work more closely on human remains, I worked in several archaeological excavations/ surveys in Turkey between 2013 and 2017 and complemented my fieldwork with a curatorial internship at ‘Curating Heads: What Does it mean to be Human?’ exhibition of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. For this internship, I was awarded with the Elizabeth Bartman Scholarship by the Archaeological Institute of America in 2017.
In 2018, I obtained my M.A in Heritage Management and Museum Studies at Koç University and have since been working on the management of archaeological human remains in Turkish museums and excavations. My PhD expands on my previous research and investigates the role of politics, identity and ethics in the management and preservation of archaeological human remains in Turkey.
Research
In my PhD project, I aim to expand my previous research on Turkey and bring together interdisciplinary methodologies from anthropology, history, archaeology, and heritage studies to research the socio-political motivations that have contributed to the failure of Turkish cultural institutions to develop policy concerning archaeological human remains. I plan to examine how different attitudes surrounding the ethics and repatriation of human remains have evolved in Turkey in relation to conflicting perceptions of identity. The Gallipoli peninsula, as a former conflict landscape, will be an important site for this research since it provides the ideal case study through which concepts such as ownership, ethics and identity in human remains management can be examined.
Key Publications
| 1 | Doğan, E. 2024. Juliopolis’te Sürdürülebilir ve Kapsayıcı Bir Alan Yönetimine Doğru İlk Adım, In: Büyükkarakaya, A.M. ed. Juliopolis Band I. Ankara: Koç Üniversitesi Vekam Yayınları.https://cdn.ku.edu.tr/cdn/files/VEKAM/juliopolis_finalVersion.pdf. |
| 2 | Doğan, E. Vorobyeva, E., Bütün, E., Büyükkarakaya, A.M. 2024. Dijitalleşen Biyoarkeoloji ve Juliopolis, Arkeolojik Insan Topluluklarına Ait Kalıntıların Dijital Arşivi. In: Büyükkarakaya, A.M. ed. Juliopolis Band I. Ankara: Koç Üniversitesi Vekam Yayınları. https://cdn.ku.edu.tr/cdn/files/VEKAM/juliopolis_finalVersion.pdf. |
| 3 | Doğan, E. 2023. ‘Searching for Identities through Archaeological Human Remains in Turkey’. In The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Heritage, and Death, edited by Trish Biers and Katie Clary Stringer, 1st ed., 191–207. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003195870. |
| 4 | Doğan, E., Thys-Şenocak, L. and Joy, J. 2022. Who Owns the Dead?: Legal and Professional Challenges Facing Human remains Management in Turkey. Public Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2022.2070209 |
| 5 | Santikarn A., Doğan, E., Ruf, K. E., Antczak, O. and Pereira M.P. L. 2022. Rethinking the Archaeology-Heritage Divide. Archaeological Review From Cambridge 37(1). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363367099_Editorial_Rethinking_... |
| 6 | Doğan, E., Pereira M.P. L., Antczak, O., Lin, M., Thompson P. and Alday, C. 2022. Diversity in Archaeology: Proceedings of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference 2020/ 2021. Oxford: Archaeopress. https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803272818 |
| 7 | Büyükkarakaya, Ali M., Vorobyeva, E., Dolmuş, M., Metin, M., Karadağ, D., Güleryüz, Ö., Doğan, E., Bütün, E., Ulusoy, İ., Sertalp, E. 2021. Juliopolis, Dijital Arkeoloji Arşivi Çalışmaları . In Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesi 100. Yıl Anı Kitabı, 325-338. Ankara: T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı. |
| 8 | Doğan, E. and Thys-Şenocak, L. 2019. Türkiye’de Arkeolojik İnsan Kalıntıları Yönetimi. In: Büyükkarakaya, A. M. and Aksoy,E. B. eds. Memento Mori Ölüm ve Ölüm Uygulamaları. İstanbul: Ege Yayınları. |
| 9 | Thys-Şenocak, L. and Doğan E. 2018. Archaeology, Museums and Tourism on the Gallipoli Peninsula: Issues of Human Remains, Ordnance, and Local Decision-Making. In: Akan, B., Piesker, K., Göçmen, D. and Sezer-Altay, S. eds. Heritage in Context 2: Archaeology and Tourism, Miras 4. Istanbul: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. |
| 10 | Doğan, E. 2018. Legislative, Ethical and Museological Issues regarding Archaeological Human Remains in Turkey. Masters of Art, Unpublished M.A thesis, Koç University. |
Teaching and Supervisions
Undergraduate supervisor (Oct 2020- Dec 2021): A1 World Archaeology
Other Professional Activities
- Research Analyst, University of Cambridge ThinkLab
- Cambridge Trust International Scholar (October 2019-June 2023)
- PhD Rep, BANEA Steering Committee (March 2021- Jan 2023)
- PhD Rep, BANEA Decolonisation Sub-committee (April 2020-Jan 2023)
- PhD Rep, Equality and Diversity Committee at the Department of Archaeology (Oct 2020- Jan 2022)
- Head of Committee, Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference (CASA 4)
