Meyçem Ceren Ulu is a DAAD-funded M.A. student in Interdisciplinary Studies of the Middle East at FreieUniversität Berlin, holding a double B.A. in Psychology and History from Boğaziçi University. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of heritage, museum history, and the circulation of objects and human remains in the late Ottoman and early Republican periods. She has conducted archival work in Istanbul and Berlin and presented her work at international workshops and conferences. She previously interned at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin and is amember of academic networks in Turkey and Germany.