Benedykt Polak Award to the TÜBA Young Academy Member Prof. Dr.Hacer Topaktaş Üstüner

Benedykt Polak Award to the TÜBA Young Academy Member Prof. Dr.Hacer Topaktaş Üstüner

Istanbul University Faculty Member  Prof. Dr. Hacer Topaktaş Üstüner who is laureate of the 2017 TÜBA-Outstanding Young Scientists Award (GEBİP) and 2015 TÜBA-Scientific Authored Book Award (TESEP) was awarded “the Benedykt Polak Award."

The Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Istanbul nominated Prof. Dr. Üstüner for the award. For her work in the topic of "Turkey-Poland Relations and Polish History" Prof. Dr. Üstüner awarded in the category of foreign researcher.

The Benedykt Polak Award is organized at the initiative of the Explorer Club Poland. The award, which has been granted to a Polish and a foreign researcher every year since 2015, was handed over to its laureates on October 23, 2021, at a ceremony held at the Lancut Palace in Poland. The President of the Explorers Club, Warsaw University Faculty Member Prof. Dr. Mariusz Ziolkowski has presented the award certificate to Prof. Dr. Hacer Topaktaş Üstüner. Deputy Minister of Culture and National Heritage Conservation Dr. Magdalena Gawin, President of the Podkarpackie Region Wladyslaw Ortyl, Rzeszow University Vice-Rector Prof. Dr. Pawel Grata and Honorary Consul of the Republic of Turkey in Cracow Pawel Dowgier attended the ceremony.

Prof. Dr. Hacer Topaktaş Üstüner
She received her undergraduate degree from the Department of History Teaching at Karadeniz Technical University (KTU) in 2001.  She was awarded a research scholarship by the Polish Government and she carried out researches on Ottoman-Polish relations at the Institute of History of the Jagiellon University of Cracow in 2005.  She started her doctorate at Hacettepe University History Department in 2006 and received her doctorate in 2013. She has continued her researches at Bonn, Warsaw, Jagiellonian, University College London and Higher School of Economics in Moscow. She was awarded TÜBA-TEÇEP in 2015 with her book of the doctoral thesis titled "Ottoman-Polish Diplomatic Relations and Embassy of Franciszek Piotr Potocki in Istanbul (1788-1793)" and TÜBA-GEBİP in 2017. She has been working as a faculty member at Istanbul University since 2013.

Prof. Dr. Hacer Topaktaş Üstüner has many internationally known articles and books on the history of Poland-Turkey relations. She knows fluent English and Polish, intermediate level of French and Russian.

 

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