In the November 2024 call of the TÜBİTAK 2209-A Undergraduate Research Projects Support Program, 12 of our sociology students submitted 6 different research proposals. We are pleased to announce that 3 of these projects have been accepted for funding.

The accepted projects and their student researchers are as follows:

The survey project titled “The Historical Landscape and Archaeology of Çorum/Boğazköy,” to be conducted under the direction of Dr. Emine Sökmen Adalı, has been approved by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, granting a three-year research permit.

With this approval, the project aims to carry out interdisciplinary research and documentation efforts to better understand the historical development of the cultural landscape around Boğazköy and to reveal the settlement patterns of the region.

The Digital Ankyra Project is an initiative aimed at making the Roman Ankara accessible through a long-term mapping process. Launched in 2021, the project continues its efforts to render the architectural heritage of Roman Ankara—fading within the modern urban fabric—more visible, to draw attention to the city's Roman-era urban structure, and to contribute to preservation policies. The project began with the Temple of Rome and Augustus and was later expanded to include other significant structures such as the Belkıs (Iulianus?) Column and the Roman street.

On February 24, 2025, a meeting was held with Quality Ambassadors and Deputy Heads of Departments under the chairmanship of Dean of our Faculty Prof. Dr. Münire Kevser Baş to evaluate the Institutional Monitoring Report of the Higher Education Quality Board (YÖKAK).

Assistant Professor Emine Sökmen Adalı, Department of Anthropology of our faculty, participated in the conference titled "Urban Dynamics in Roman Anatolia: Investigating the emergence and development of the Roman City in North-Central Anatolia" held at Middle East Technical University on 21-22 February 2025 with her talk titled "Who built the Dam? Roman Hydraulic Engineering and the Örükaya Dam in North-Central Anatolia" and shared her studies on the Örükaya Roman Dam within the scope of her research project.

Every year, the publications and activities of our academic staff are evaluated by the Academic Award Commission of our University, and the academics who are in the top three in each category are awarded. This year's academic award ceremony was held on 20 February 2025, 6 faculty members from our faculty received awards and 2 faculty members were given certificates of appreciation.

Ulusal Kitap Kategorisi
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Çevik

SSCI-SCI-SCI-Exp Kategorisi
Prof. Dr. Murat Boysan

The 4th issue of ASA Journal, which has been published twice a year (June-December) by our faculty starting from 2023, was published last month. With this issue, the DOI application made by the ASA Journal has been accepted and we are pleased to announce that the articles published as of June 2025 will be given a DOI number.

As part of the ASBU Department of Turkish Language and Literature Seminars, Dr Doğan Kaya presented a seminar titled "Tevriye in Turkish Culture". In the seminar moderated by Prof. Dr. Faruk Gün, Dr. Doğan Kaya explained the art of tevriye in Aşık ( poetry).

Assoc. Prof. Evrim Türkçelik who is a faculty member of ASBU Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of History, has been selected as a "Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow" (2024-2025) in the field of history by the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. The Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow Fellowship gives the opportunity to experienced academics in the field of social sciences to conduct research at the EUI for a certain period of time.

In the commemoration panel entitled "Sezai Karakoç's Thought of Resurrection and Islamic Civilization Perspective" organized by the Ilmi Etüdler Derneği (İLEM) on 18 November 2024, Vice Rector and Dean of our Faculty Prof. Dr.

 Prof. Selim Ferruh Adalı, member of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of History, participated in the conference organized by the International Assyriological Association (IAA). These annual conferences are held since the 1950s and are the meeting place for Assyriologists from around the world. The 69th conference organized this year was held in Helsinki with Helsinki University, Faculty of Arts, as the host. Prof.

During the preference process, we are waiting for all our candidate students at the ASBU Promotion Days organized at the ASBU Campus between 09.00-17.00.

Prof. Dr. José Javier Ruiz Ibáñez, from University of Murcia, Department of History, has visited our University's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of History. Topics like a critical appraisal of 16th century historiography and comparisons of ancient cultures were among the topics discussed. Assistant Professor Emine Sökmen Adalı, from ASBÜ Department of Anthropology, has accompanied this visit and shared her knowledge on the ancient history of Ankara. 

Assoc. Prof. Nagihan Gür, a member of the Department of Turkish Language and Literature in our faculty, published her article titled ""Bir Hikâye Birden Çok Anlatı: Nigârîn’in Hikâyesinin Yüzyıllara Yayılmış Serüveni" in the journal “Zemin”. For the access link of the article; https://zemindergi.com/index.php/pub/article/view/100

The ASA (ASBU Journal of Social Research) published by our faculty has been accepted to the MLA Bibliography index.

As part of the HIST360 History and Culture of Ankara course, a field trip was organized to the archaeopark area reflecting the multi-layeredness of Ankara. The remains of the Ottoman period bath structure, debbağ workshops and road routes were examined. The theater building, which is an important symbol of Ankara's Roman cultural life, was visited and discussed in the context of the spatial organization of the city within the scope of the course.

Click here to access the current issue of our faculty journal; ASA -SSUA Journal of Social Research. 

ASBU Department of Turkish Language and Literature will start accepting students with a 30% English curriculum as of the 2023-2024 academic year. With this decision, which is part of the internationalization mission of our university and the Department of Turkish Language and Literature, our students will have the opportunity to have a bilingual education and thus complete their university education with Turkish and English content both in their own fields and in different disciplines.

Prof. Dr. Şebnem Köşer Akçapar's new book chapter "Mixed Migration Flows into Turkey and the Impact of the Pandemic: Revisiting Social Exclusion and Persisting Inequalities" has been published in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems.

During the event held with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zehra Sema Demir, the young writers learned the importance and history of the museum in detail.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zehra Sema Demir's proficiency in history and archaeology provided great guidance to the young writers throughout the trip. In particular, her narration on the Orthostat of the Wall of Messengers, which is the subject of the Epic of Gilgamesh, enabled the young writers to gain a more comprehensive perspective on the history of humanity.