1 See http://archweb.metu.edu.tr/disbaglantilar/archist/ambivalent/index.html. The project was supported for three years by a British Academy Middle East Capacity Sharing Partnership Scheme grant, 2009-11 (Arnold D MEP 2008) and initiated by Dana Arnold with the assistance of Elvan Altan Ergut and Belgin Turan Özkaya. The project funding supported themed workshops, archival research, and postgraduate seminars. The scope and approach of “Ambivalent Geographies” was inspired by earlier collaborations between Arnold, Altan Ergut, and Turan Özkaya including a number of seminars and a conference funded by the British Academy Black Sea Initiative (BABSI) and the British Archaeological Institute in Ankara (BAIA). These combined research interests have also informed several publications, including Arnold, Dana, Reading Architectural History, (London: Routledge, 2002)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Dana, Arnold, Ergut, Elvan Altan and Özkaya, Belgin Turan, Re-thinking Architectural Historiography (London: Routledge, 2006)Google Scholar.