Leyla Kayhan

Leyla Kayhan is an assistant professor at Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey. She holds a B.A. degree in Languages and Literature from Bard College (2001), an A.M. degree and a Ph.D. from Harvard University (History and Middle Eastern Studies, 2005 and 2013). She is a contributor to the upcoming publication based on the history and the restoration-conservation project of The Çinili Hammam. She also is on the board of advisors of The Çinili Hammam Museum. Dr. Kayhan's most recent publications include “The Emotional Bond between Early Modern Children and Parents: A Case Study of Sünbülzade's 'Ideal' Child” in Children and Childhood in the Ottoman Empire (14th-20th Century), Edinburgh University Press 2021 (eds. Fruma Zachs, Gülay Yılmaz); “Family and Neighborhood Lives” in Early Modern Istanbul (Brill Companion Series on Early Modern Cities), Brill (eds. Çiğdem Kafescioğlu and Shirine Hamadeh, 2022); “An Uncanny Discourse on Sex and Marriage from the Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire” Selim S. Kuru ile birlikte, Crafting History: Essays on the Ottoman World and Beyond in Honor of Cemal Kafadar, Rachel Goshgarian, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, and Ali Yaycıoğlu eds., Academic Studies Press, March 2023. Currently at Harvard, she is working on a monograph on the history of divorce and marriage in late-18^th century Istanbul.