Congratulations to NELC PhD student Trisha Myers on her award of a fellowship at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC) at Koç University. The RCAC aims to develop and facilitate research projects that are dedicated to the history, art, architecture and archaeology of civilizations in Turkey. In academic year 2015-16, Ms Myers will be carrying out work for her dissertation on the Ottoman genre of the nashihatname, or advice literature, of the 16th-18th centuries, at the RCAC.