The Fund for the Support of Historical Research, created with the kind assistance of Dr. Alper Öktem in 2010. As of 2013, the scope of the fund, renamed as ‘History and Memory Research Fund’ has been enhanced to include research on memory and the relationship between memory and history. In 2017, Alper Öktem, as well as Harry Palvekian's contributions, It was aimed to encourage the investigation of conscientious behavior which can be considered as human rights advocacy with the understanding of today.In addition to its initial scope, the fund will also support research on the traces of the events of 1915, their memory on subsequent generations and the different ways of remembering.
The History and Memory Research Fund 2018 grantees were determined from The Fund’s Jury on 11 December 2018.
The Fund’s Jury consists of Hülya Adak (Sabancı University), Taner Akçam (Clark University), Ayşe Gül Altınay (Sabancı University), Ayfer Bartu Candan (Boğaziçi University), Valentina Calzolari (Université de Genève), Edhem Eldem (Boğaziçi University), Deniz Kandiyoti (University of London), Raymond Kévorkian (Université Paris-VIII), Kerem Öktem (University of Graz) ve Arus Yumul’un (İstanbul Bilgi University).
The History and Memory Research Fund was shared among three researches for the 2018 funding year. The grantees and their projects are :

• Emre Can Dağlıoğlu - Savaş Esiri Arap Askerlerin Gözünden Ermeni Soykırımı [Armenian Genoside from the eyes of Arabian Soldiers who are prisoner of the war]

• Toygun Altıntaş - Strategies Of Political Resistance: Ottoman Armenian Women And The Hamidian Regime

• Nanor Kebranian - Memory Laws and Transnational Resistance: Turkish-German Political Representatives and Armenian Genocide Recognition in Germany

Emre Can Dağlıoğlu, received his BSc degree at METU in 2009, faculty of Business Administration and his master degrees in the University of Exeter, programme of Energy Policy in 2011 and another one completed in Bilgi University, programme of Cultural Studies in 2017. He is currently continues his doctoral studies on History at Stanford University.

Toygun Altıntaş, received his BA degree in Science of History and Policies at William College. His MA degrees completed in 2010, in Programme of Middle Eastern Studies at University of Chicago and in 2011, in Programme of Turkish Studies at Sabancı University. He received his PHD in programme of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at University of Chicago in 2018. Title of his PHD dissertation is “Crisis and (Dis)Order: Armenian Revolutionaries and the Hamidian Regime in the Ottoman Empire (1887-1896)”.

Nanor Kebranian, is Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Theory, History, and Human Rights in the HERA-funded project for Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspective in the School of Law at Queen Mary, University of London. She completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford with fellowships from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and Oxford's Clarendon Fund. She joins Queen Mary after serving as Assistant Professor in Columbia University's Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, where she researched, published, and taught on Ottoman history, literary studies, and human rights

The supporters of the History and Memory Research Fund

Dr. Alper Öktem
Born on 11 March 1954 in the Turkish town of Dikili, he finished his primary education in Burdur. He started to pursue his secondary education at the Maarif Koleji in Eskişehir, continued in Konya and finished it in Istanbul at the Kadıköy Maarif Koleji. In 1978, he graduated from Faculty of Medicine at Hacettepe University in Ankara. He went to Germany for specialization in radiology. Dr. Alper Öktem is married, has two children and lives in Bielefeld, Germany.

Harry Parsekian
Harry Parsekian was born in 1935 and has been a lifelong resident of Watertown, Massachusetts. He circumvented the world in 1984 and within years he traveled through lots of countries. In 1986 he climbed to the summit Mt. Ararat. In 1991 He volunteered for humanitarian aid flights to blockaded Armenia and in 2006 he bicycled from Armenia to Artshakh (Karabakh). He traveled troughout Armenia and Turkey and for the last few years has been involved in Turkish Armenian relations. He is a retired buisnessman and the president of Friends of Hrant Dink, Boston, MA.