Ayse Oren 
Architect, designer, and sculptor at Ayse Oren Design Art

Ms. Oren was awarded the TCF Fellowship to present her paper “Space Architecture and Long Term Outer Space Travels” at the International Space Development Conference 2017 in St. Louis, Missouri, May 25-29, 2017.

Assoc Prof. Dr. Evren Kutlay 
Professor at Yildiz Technical University Music and Performing Arts Department, pianist, musicologist, music historian

Ms. Kutlay was awarded the TCF Fellowship to present her paper "Hints of Ottoman-American Musical Interactions From Nineteenth To Early Twentieth Centuries" at the ITCEF Conference (International Conference on Turkish Culture, Art, Language and Literature Studies) 2017 in New York, August 15-18, 2017.

Sara Filiz Miller Catterall
Editor and book indexer

Sara Filiz Miller Catterall was awarded the TCF Fellowship to publish Charlotte Jirousek’s book entitled “More Than Oriental Splendor: Exchanges in Dress, Design and Culture in the Mediterranean World During the Ottoman Era”