Timur Hammond

• 2024 Spring
  • GEO 473/673 Geography of Memory
  • GEO 499 Honors Capstone Project
  • GEO 362 The European City
• 2023 Fall
  • GEO 171 Human Geographies
• 2023 Spring
  • GEO 171 Human Geographies
  • GEO 815 Seminar in Urban Geography
• 2022 Fall
  • GEO 362 The European City
  • GEO 435 The Global Middle East
• 2022 Spring
  • GEO 171 Human Geographies
  • GEO 772 Seminar: Cultural Geography

Timur Hammond is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He received a Ph.D. and M.A. in geography from the University of California, Los Angeles (2016, 2010), and a B.A. in English/creative writing from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2005). Prior to joining the faculty at Syracuse University, he worked in the Department of Geography at the University of Vermont.

Trained as an urban and cultural geographer, his research draws on archival and ethnographic methods to explore the intersection between urban experience and religious belief in 20th-century Turkey, with a particular focus on the Istanbul district of Eyüp. His research has been supported by a number of institutions, including the American Research Institute in Turkey, the Institute of Turkish Studies, and the Fulbright-IIE. This work has been published in several venues, including City and his forthcoming book "Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in 20th Century Istanbul."

More recent research has moved in a variety of directions, including reflecting on the conceptual and institutional relationships between geography and Middle East area studies, discussing the geographies of urban heritage in the Middle East, and analyzing the contested geographies of memory that have emerged following Turkey’s July 2016 coup attempt.

Links to his publications can be found on Google Scholar, Academia, and Experts@Syracuse.

He has also partnered with colleagues at Syracuse University and a variety of other Central New York institutions, including joining the Landscape Studies at SU group, helping to coordinate an ‘Unlearning the Urban’ seminar series with Lawrence Chua (Architecture), participating in the work of the Community-Engaged Public Humanities working group, collaborating with colleagues to start the Urban Natures working group, and organizing a digital faculty writing group. He also serves as the department’s faculty representative for Syracuse University’s Future Professoriate Program; some of his work with that program led to a short article discussing strategic planning for graduate students in Inside Higher Education.

"Unlearning the Urban: cities, systems, and inequities", Sponsored by CUSE Grants - Interdisciplinary Seminar Grant.

"Following the Margins: Creative Experiments in Documenting Natures of Contemporary Istanbul", Sponsored by Faculty Creative Activities and Research (FCAR) Grant Program.

"Following the Tree of Heaven: Urban Natures Across Time and Space", Sponsored by Syracuse Office of Undergraduate Research & Creative Engagement (SOURCE) Research Assistant Grant.

• Journal Articles
  • Hammond, T. W., Cook, B., "Trajectories of translation." Progress in Human Geography, 2023.
  • Hammond, T. W., "Languages of din: Place, history, and paths." Dialogues in Human Geography, 2023.
  • Hammond, T. W., "Conjunctions of Islam: rethinking the geographies of art and piety through the notebooks of Ahmet Süheyl Ünver." cultural geographies, 2023.
  • Hammond, T. W., "Making the Millet Common: Rethinking Authoritarian Politics Through Commemoration Following Turkey’s July 2016 Coup Attempt." ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 2022.
  • Hammond, T. W., "Papering, arranging, and depositing: Learning from working with an Istanbul archive." Area, 2019.
  • Hammond, T. W., "The Politics of Perspective: Subjects, Exhibits, and Spectacle in Taksim Square, Istanbul." Urban Geography, 2019.
  • Hammond, T. W., "Making Memorial Publics: Media and Monuments in Turkey Following the July 2016 Coup Attempt." Geographical Review.
  • Hammond, T. W., "Heritage and the Middle East: Cities, Power, and Memory." Geography Compass.
• Book Chapters
  • Hammond, T. W., "Religion and the city." In Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East. Oxford University Press, 2021.
  • Hammond, T. W., Mills, A., "The Interdisciplinary Spatial Turn and the Discipline of Geography in Middle East Studies." In Middle East Studies for the New Millennium: Infrastructures of Knowledge. Shami, S., Miller-Idriss , C. (eds.) New York University Press, 2016.
  • Hammond, T. W., "Grave Encounters." In History Takes Place: Istanbul – Dynamics of Urban Change. Jovis, 2015.
• Book Reviews
  • Hammond, T. W., "Book review of Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey." Cultural Geographies, 2024.
  • Hammond, T. W., "Review of Mobility and Forced Displacement in the Middle East, edited by Zahra Babar." International Journal of Islamic Architecture, 2023.
  • Hammond, T. W., "Review of Representing Modern Istanbul: Urban History and International Institutions in Twentieth Century Beyoğlu, by Enno Maessen." Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 2023.
  • Hammond, T. W., Türeli, I., "Review of Istanbul, Open City: Exhibiting Anxieties of Urban Modernity." AAG Review of Books, 2019.
  • Hammond, T. W., Hart, K., "Review of And Then We Work for God: Rural Sunni Islam in Western Turkey." Arab Studies Journal, 2014.
  • Hammond, T. W., Cheng, W., "Review of The Changs Next to the Diazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California." Journal of Cultural Geography, 2014.
  • Hammond, T. W., "Review of İstanbul’u Hatırlamak [Remembering Istanbul]." Hoffman, J., Pedrosa, A. (eds.) Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey, 2011.
• Commentary
  • Hammond, T. W., "Archives in Context? Reflections on Changing Forms of Fieldwork." Geography Directions, 2019.
• Essays
  • Hammond, T. W., "Timur Hammond, Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul (New Texts Out Now)." In Jadaliyya. , 2023.
  • Hammond, T. W., "The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Istanbul." In University of California Press Blog. , 2023.
  • Hammond, T. W., "The Past Present: Turkey, Erdoğan, and the Gezi Protests." Society and Space - Environment and Planning D Blog, 2013.
  • Hammond, T. W., Angell, E., "Is Everywhere Taksim? Public Space and Possible Publics." Jadaliyya, 2013.
• Monograph
  • Hammond, T. W., Placing Islam in Istanbul: Buildings, Stories, and Belonging in a Changing City. University of California Press, 2023.
• Podcasts
  • Hammond, T. W., Baghoolizadeh,, B., "Timur Hammond on the Landscapes of Islam in 20th Century Istanbul." Ajam Media Collective, 2017.
  • Hammond, T. W., Danforth, N. and Gratien, C., "Geography and Mapping Turkish/Ottoman History." Ottoman History Podcast, 2013.
  • Hammond, T. W., Gratien, C., "The History and Transformation of Eyüp." Ottoman History Podcast, 2011.

Cornell University, Critical Ottoman & Post Ottoman Studies, "Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in 20th Century Istanbul" (October 4, 2023)

Religion and its History in Turkey: New Approaches, Alternative Perspectives, Leipzig University, "Urban Worlds of Islam: Networks, Traditions, and Places" (January, 2023)

Middle East Studies Association, "Remembering to Forget: Memorial Practices of the July 15, 2016 Coup Attempt" (November, 2019)

American Association of Geographers, "Cultural Geography Specialty Group Poster Session Competition: Methods, Objects, Meanings, Publics" (April, 2019)

American Association of Geographers, "Memorializing Turkey’s July 15, 2016 Coup Attempt in Istanbul: Spectacle, Embodiment, and the Material Trace" (April, 2019)

2021-2022 Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Teaching Recognition Award for Early Career Performance, Syracuse University (2022)