Akarsu Melike Demirkol is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Ottoman Literature at Boğaziçi University. She initially got involved with the SHIFA-ANA project through her interest in micro-environments of historical cities and how they’re created. She has been traveling around İstanbul with a group of people to discover old cemeteries in İstanbul – a journey that recently culminated in NECRO-IST. Prior to her master’s studies, Demirkol studied in Department of History and Department of Political Science and International Relations (double major) at Boğaziçi University. She is interested in cultural history, and particularly the history of political culture. She is currently studying a sixteenth-century Ottoman miscellany (mecmua) of stories. Akarsu serves as the coordinator of SHIFA-ANA Project, organizing summer schools, arranging social media accounts, and designing the visuals.