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