Çiçek Dereli holds a BA in German Literature, Linguistics and Didactic from Marmara University in Istanbul (2007) and an MA in Cultural Heritage Studies from Central European University in Budapest (2017). In her MA thesis, she introduced three interwoven narratives of the Monastery of Saint John the Forerunner of Studios: the historical, the visual and the heritage oriented. The visual narrative formed the key-stone of her research and was presented in the form of a visual catalog. Her current PhD project is entitled "A Heterotopic Place Biography: The Monastery of Saint John the Forerunner of Studios".
Thesis
A Heterotopic Place Biography: The Monastery of Saint John the Forerunner of Studios