Bogazici University, Institute of Social Sciences, History, 2018

University of Cambridge, History and Philosophy of Architecture, 2002

Istanbul Technical University, Architecture, 1998

Dr. Zehra Tonbul’s research centers on modern and contemporary architectural history and theory, framed by intellectual history and the philosophy of architecture. She is a member of the European Architectural History Network and the Society for the History of Humanities. She teaches studio, history, and theory courses, including a graduate course on Decolonialism in Architecture. She completed her doctoral thesis at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, co-advised by the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna, with a dissertation titled The Art Historiographical Odyssey of Ernst Diez. Dr. Tonbul conducted postdoctoral research as a Preußischer Kulturbesitz scholar at the Berlin Museums on the topic of German art and architectural historiography. She is a graduate of Robert College of Istanbul, holds a degree in Architecture as top scholar from Istanbul Technical University, and an MPhil degree in History and Philosophy of Architecture from the University of Cambridge.

Architectural History and Theory, Modern and Contemporary Architectural Theory, Architectural Criticism, Decolonial Thought in Architecture.