Firat Ciftci

Software Engineer

5720 South Woodlawn Avenue, Room 104

Firat Ciftci has a B.S. in Computer Science, a B.A. in Linguistics, and an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies, all from the University of Chicago. He is an experienced coder, familiar with multiple programming languages, and works with other members of the Forum for Digital Culture’s technology team to develop software for computational research in the humanities. He has taught the following courses in the Digital Studies M.A. program: “Introduction to Computer Programming Using Python” and “Data Publication for the Humanities” (using JavaScript/HMTL/CSS and the React framework).

Firat is bilingual in English and Turkish and also knows Arabic, Persian, Uzbek, and Kurdish. Among other projects, he is involved in the Ottoman Inscriptions Project, which is compiling a database of more than 800 historic buildings with more than 1,200 inscriptions in Turkey, Greece, and Egypt.