Berin Golonu is an assistant professor at the University at Buffalo where she teaches courses in art history and visual studies. Her research focuses on urban ecologies, spatial practices, and landscape imagery. She is completing her first monograph, titled Naturalizing Modernization: Urban Greenspace and Cultural Memory in Late Ottoman Istanbul. Her book traces changing concepts of urban public space in the Ottoman capital during the long nineteenth century, and draws connections with the uses of the city’s historical greenspaces today. Sections of this research have been published in the edited volume Commoning the City: Empirical Perspectives on Urban Ecology, Economics and Ethics (Routledge, 2020) and Infrastructures and Society in (Post) Ottoman Geographies (Forum Transregionale Studien, 2021). Golonu’s peer reviewed research articles have appeared in publications such as Third Text and the Journal of Visual Culture, and her art criticism has been published in art journals worldwide, including Artforum, Art in America, Aperture, Modern Painters and frieze. Along with Candice Hopkins and Marisa Jahn, she is the co-editor of the volume Recipes for an Encounter (Western Front Editions, 2010). From 2003-2008, Golonu served as a curator of contemporary art at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. More recently, she has been awarded numerous fellowships for her publication research, including a UB Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship (2023-24); a Getty/ACLS Fellowship in the History of Art (2022-23); an American Research Institute in Turkey/NEH Fellowship (2019) and a Leibniz Fellowship for Historical Authenticity (2018).