After reading Philosophy (BA/Bogazici University) and Sociology (MA/Bogazici University) & Film and TV Studies (MA/Istanbul Bilgi University), Aliye Fatma Mataraci moved on to History (PhD/Bogazici University & Princeton University). She discovered there is no need for a time-machine to travel in time, studying the past is enough! During her Doctoral Studies, she discovered her interdisciplinary background provided a richer perspective to her efforts to understand the past. She published a second book; Trade in Wartime: The Business Correspondence of an Ottoman Muslim Merchant Family, in 2016. Her book sold more than 70 copies, which can be considered a `best-seller`  in the field of History. She will celebrate twenty years of teaching in February 2018. She loves teaching only when it is interactive, otherwise, she feels like she is talking to herself and gets bored of her voice. She could not picture herself anywhere else than academia since her undergraduate studies but her vision of academia was mostly research and teaching, she had no idea that it involved administrative duties as well. She has been practicing these duties for 13 years at various levels and currently she is the Head of Department of Social Sciences  and Coordinator of Social and Political Sciences Program.

“Heritage at War in the Mediterranean Region” is a new interdisciplinary research carried out by the Urban Observatory within the Department of Contemporary Studies of Ifpo, with the support of the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (2015-2017). The main objective of the research program is to assess themes and critical issues related with heritage specifically in times and zones of conflict, especially in terms of identity and power politics. The program is based on the partnership of six teams belonging to the AUF: in Bosnia (International University of Sarajevo, Programs of Social and Political Sciences and Cultural Studies), for the question of multi-ethnicity; in Turkey  (Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes) with the question of minorities, but also the neo-Ottomanization of Istanbul; in Algeria (Ecole Polytechnique d’Architecture et d’Urbanisme) and the consequences of the « leaden years »» as well as the colonization; in Egypt (IRD- Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale) with those of the « Arab spring » (Cairo and Alexandria); and in Lebanon (Université Libanaise, Institut des Beaux-Arts) with the particularly visible consequences of the civil war in Beirut. Examples in Palestine (as concerns territorial conflict) will also be treated through the participation of an Italian researcher (Politecnico, Milano). The research program will result in significant contributions to the field through a workshop in Sarajevo (June 2015), a workshop in Istanbul (2016) and a symposium in Beirut (2017) with a publication to follow, in addition to support for young researchers’ works.

Trade in Wartime: The Business Correspondence of an Ottoman Muslim Merchant Family, Istanbul: Libra Yayınevi, 2016.

Trade Letters as Instances of Economy, Ideology and Subjectivity, Istanbul: Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Center, 2005

“(Identity) Politics & the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina”, the Third Workshop of the “Heritage at War in the Mediterranean Region” project organized by Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes (IFEA) in Beirut, 29-30 June, 2017, forthcoming 2018.

“Soliman Second, ou Les Trois Sultanes: Manifestation of Eighteenth-Century French Interest in the Ottomans.” In Culture and Diplomacy: Ambassadors as Cultural Actors in the Ottoman – European Relations from 16th to 19th Centuries, Vienna: Hollitzer Verlag, forthcoming 2018.

“Remembering the Battle of Kosovo (1389).” In Recent Developments in Arts, eds. by Zbigniew Bialas, Hasan Aslan, Mehmet Ali Icbay, Hasan Arslan, 183-187. International Association of Social Science, 2017. ISBN 978-83-943963-6-7 (E-book) / ISBN 978-83- 943963-6-7 (Print)

“Bosnia-Herzegovina during the Balkan Wars and World War I”, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Society, Law and Politics, 2016.

“Trading in the Shadow of Wars in a Doomed Empire.” In War and Collapse: World War I and the Ottoman State, edited by M. Hakan Yavuz with Feroz Ahmad,  Utah series in Middle East studies. Utah: University of Utah Press, 2016.

“From Anatolia to Manchester via Istanbul: The Complex Nature of an Ottoman Commercial Network on the Eve of World War I”, Socrates Petmezas, Gelina Harlaftis, Andreas Lyberatos, Katerina Papakonstantinou (eds.), New Perspectives in Theory and Empirical Research. Proceedings of the International Conference of Economic and Social History, Rethymno 10-13 December 2008. Publications of the Philosophical Scholl of the University of Crete – Alexandria Publications, Athens 2012, 481 p. (in Greek and English), available online: http://hdoisto.gr/en/activities/eeoi-conferences-archive/2008-conference.

"Dışarıdaki Chaplin", Dışarıda Kalanlar / Bırakılanlar (Outsiders), ed. Aliye F. Mataracı, Istanbul: Bağlam Yayınları, 2001.

"Fatma Aliye Hanım’s Contributions to History Writing.” International Relations and Diplomacy, August 2016, Vol. 4, No. 8, 502-507. (doi: 10.17265/2328-2134/2016.08.003) (available online as well: http://www.davidpublisher.org/Home/Journal/IRD)

“A Comparative History of Commercial Correspondence: European and Ottoman Practices”, Journal of Turkish Literature, Issue 8, Bilkent University Center for Turkish Literature, pp. 67-95, 2011.