[2] She is currently an adjunct professor in the Archaeology and History of Art Department at Koç University and resident scholar of the Turkish Cultural Foundation.
[3][4] Renda is the author or co-author of over 30 books, including Wall Paintings in Turkish Houses (1978), The Transformation of Culture.
The Atatürk Legacy (1986), A History of Turkish Painting (1988), Representations of Towns in Ottoman Sea Charts of the 16th Century and Their Relations to Mediterranean Cartography (1990), Woman in Anatolia.
Picturing the House of Osman (2000), Osmanlı Uygarlığı / Ottoman Civilization (2002), An Eye Witness of the Tulip Era.
[3] Amongst her work, she has analyzed the strategic use made of his portraits by Sultan Mahmut II (1808–39), which he would often give to foreign embassies as a gesture of good will.