About me
Gül Kale is trained as an architect (ITU) and architectural historian (McGill). Before joining Carleton University as an Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Theory, she was awarded a Getty/ ACLS postdoctoral fellowship in Art History in 2018-2019. Her areas of expertise are architectural history and theory with a focus on the early modern Ottoman empire, and cross-cultural and global histories and theories of material culture and of the built environment in the wider Mediterranean world and the Middle East. Her book-length project is the first critical analysis of the only early modern book written by a scholar, Cafer Efendi on Ottoman architecture entitled "Risale-i Mimariyye (1614). During winter 2019, she has been an AKPIA associate at Harvard University. Her scholarship was also supported by postdoctoral fellowships from the University of Bonn’s Annmarie-Schimmel Kolleg and the Art Histories Program of the Forum Transregionale Studien Berlin. Her published articles appear in the journals Muqarnas, JSAH, RES, Architectural Histories, and H-Art, as well as in edited volumes "Living with Nature and Things" and "The Mercantile Effect.” Most recently, she has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant to develop her research on the social and cultural history of architectural tools and measurements.