Alumni
Year | Alumna/us | Dissertation Title |
2011 | Suzan Yalman | A Period Of "Transformation:" Religion, Urbanism and Identity In The Architectural Patronage Of Sultan Alaeddin Keykubad (R.1220-37) |
2009 | Chanchal Dadlani | "Twilight" in Delhi? Architecture, Aesthetics, and Urbanism in the Late Mughal Empire |
2009 | Jennifer A. Pruitt | Fatimid Architectural Patronage and Changing Sectarian Identities (969-1021). |
2007 | Ladan Akbarnia | Khita'i: Cultural Memory and the Creation of a Mongol Visual Idiom in Iran and Central Asia |
2007 | Sandy Meier | Local Cityscapes and Transcultural Imaginaries: Competing Architectures of Mombasa |
2005 | Emine Fatma Fetvacı | Viziers to Eunuchs: Transitions in Ottoman Manuscript Patronage, 1566-1617 |
2005 | Pınar Kayaalp-Aktan | The Atik Valide Mosque Complex: A Testament of Nurbanu's Prestige, Power and Piety |
2005 | Kristina Marie Van Dyke | The Oral-Visual Nexus: Rethinking Visuality in Mali |
2005 | Steven Charles Wolf | The Construction of Ottoman Aleppo: Modes and Meanings of Urban (Re-)organization |
2005 | E. Zeynep Yürekli Görkay | Legend and Architecture in the Ottoman Empire: The Shrines of Seyyid Gazi and Haci Bektas |
2004 | Mark Dike DeLancey | Representing Rulership: Palace Architecture, Spatial Orientation, Ritual Movement, and Secrecy in Northern Cameroon |
2003 | Persis Dorothy Berlekamp | Wonders and their Images in Late Medieval Islamic Culture: "The Wonders of Creation" in Fars and Iraq, 1280-1388 |
2003 | Sarah Carrig Bond | Studies of the Romanesque Sculpture of Saint-Pierre de Mozac in Auvergne: Location and Meaning |
2003 | Amanda Rosenstock Luyster | Courtly Images Far From Court: The Family Saint-Floret, Representation, and Romance |
2003 | Susan Elizabeth Spinale | The Portrait Medals of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II (r. 1451-1481) |
2002 | May Farhat | Islamic Piety and Dynastic Legitimacy: The Case of the Shrine of 'Ali b. Musa al-Riḍa in Mashhad (10th--17th century) |
2002 | Barry David Wood | The "Shahnama-i Isma`il": Art and Cultural Memory in Sixteenth-Century Iran |
2000 | Ahmet Abdullah Ersoy | On the Sources of the "Ottoman Renaissance:" Architectural Revival and its Discourse during the Abdulaziz Era (1861-1876) |
2000 | Oya Ayşe Pancaroğlu | "A World unto Himself": The Rise of a New Human Image in the Late Seljuk Period (1150-1250) |
2000 | Alka Arvind Patel | Islamic Architecture of Western India (mid-12th-14th Centuries): Continuities and Interpretations |
1999 | Rebecca Marie Foote | Umayyad Markets and Manufacturing: Evidence for a Commercialized and Industrializing Economy in Early Islamic Bilad al-Sham |
1998 | Ann Taylor Shafer | The Carving of an Empire: Neo-Assyrian Monuments on the Periphery |
1996 | Gauvin Alexander Bailey | Counter-Reformation Symbolism and Allegory in Mughal Painting |
1996 | Elizabeth Dean Hermann | Urban Formation and Landscape: Symbol and Agent of Social, Political and Environmental Change in Fourteenth-Century Nasrid Granada |
1996 | Çiğdem Kafescioğlu | The Ottoman Capital in the Making: The Reconstruction of Constantinople in the Fifteenth Century |
1994 | Muhamad Tarek Nabil Swelim | The Mosque of Ibn Tulun: A New Perspective |
1992 | Howyda Nawwaf Al-Harithy | Urban Form and Meaning in Bahri Mamluk Architecture |
1992 | Nuha Naim Nasrallah Khoury | The Mihrab Concept: Palatial Themes in Early Islamic Religious Architecture |
1991 | Zakaria bin 'Ali | Islamic Art in Southeast Asia: 830 A.D.-1570 A.D. |
1991 | Roya Marefat | Beyond the Architecture of Death: The Shrine of the Shah-i Zinda in Samarqand |
1990 | Mohammad al-Asad | The Modern State Mosque in the Eastern Arab World, 1828-1985 |
1990 | Ghada Hijjawi Qaddumi | A Medieval Islamic Book of Gifts and Treasures: Translation, Annotation, and Commentary on the "Kitab al-Hadaya wa al-Tuhaf" |
1989 | Zahra Faridany-Akhavan | The Problems of the Mughal Manuscript of the Hamza-nama: 1562-1577. A Reconstruction |
1989 | Scott Nicholas Redford | The Ceramic Sequence from Medieval Gritille, SE Turkey |
1989 | Beatrice St. Laurent | Ottomanization and Modernization. The Architectural and Urban Development of Bursa and the Genesis of Tradition, 1839-1914 |
1987 | Michael Antony Brand | The Khalji Complex in Shadiabad Mandu (India) |
1987 | Massumeh Farhad | Safavid Single Page Painting, 1629-1666 |
1986 | Gülru Necipoğlu-Kafadar | The Formation of an Ottoman Imperial Tradition: The Topkapi Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Istanbul, Architecture, Ceremonial) |
1986 | John William Seyller | The Freer Ramayana and the Atelier of 'Abd al-Rahim (Mogul, India) |
1985 | Thomas Woodward Lentz, Jr. | Painting at Herat under Bysunghur Ibn Shahrukh (Iran) |
1984 | Perween Hasan | Sultanate Mosque-Types in Bangladesh: Origins and Development. (Volumes I and Ii) |
1982 | Eva Rose Hoffman | The Emergence of Illustration in Arabic manuscripts: Classical Legacy and Islamic Transformation |
1981 | Terry Allen | Timurid Herat |
1981 | Sheila Randolph Canby | The Life and Work of the Painter Riza |
1981 | Nancy Riva Shatzman Steinhardt | Imperial Architecture under Mongolian Patronage: Khubilai's Imperial City of Daidu |
1981 | Stephen K. Urice | Qasr Kharana: An Early Islamic Monument in the Transjordan |
1980 | Sheila S. Blair | The Shrine Complex at Natanz, Iran |
1980 | Jonathan Max Bloom | Meaning in Early Fatimid Architecture: Islamic Art in North Africa and Egypt in the Fourth-Century A.H. (Tenth-Century A.D.) |
1980 | James Lionel Trilling | The Medallion Style in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Mosaics and Textiles to c. A.D. 600 |
1978 | Marianna Shreve Simpson | The Illustration of an Epic: The Earliest 'Shahnama' Manuscripts |
1976 | Deborah E. Klimburg-Salter | Buddhist Painting of the Hindu Kush: Bamiyan, Fondukistan, Foladi, Kakrak |
1974 | Hafez Kayssar Chehab | Le Decor de Anjarr |
1973 | Judith Ann Lerner | Winged Figures in Sasanian Art |
1972 | Renata Holod-Tretiak | The Monuments of Yazd, 1300-1450: Architecture, Patronage and Setting |
1971 | Walter Bell Denny | The Ceramics of the Mosque of Rustem Pasha and the Environment of Change |