Fellows
Recent AKPIA Postdoctoral Fellows
Year | Fellow | Research Topic | |
2025-26 | Portrait Atlas: Photographic Migration Across the Ottoman-Atlantic | ||
A Best-Seller Among Turkish Speaking Patrons: The Fine Copies of the Ottoman İskendernâme (Book of Alexander) | |||
2024-25 | Urban Agriculture and Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Istanbul | ||
Qarakhanid Architecture Re-examined: Portals, Patronage, and Consolidating Power in Muslim Transoxiana | |||
Yıldız Moran and the Anatolian Lens | |||
2023-24 | Confronting the Ottoman Baroque in 20th-Century Istanbul | ||
Illustrated Materia Medica and Itinerant Plants in the Mediterranean | |||
Shrines and the Politics of Reconstruction in Iraq and Turkey | |||
Re-evaluating the Luster Ceramics of 9th- and 10th- century Mesopotamia in light of the Epigraphic Evidence | |||
2022-23 | Reframing forms and functions in Islamic architecture in al-Andalus and in its Mediterranean context, from Maghreb to Syria | ||
A Study of the Paintings of the Private Houses of Samarra | |||
From Copying to Burning the Qur'an: Creating Models & Transposing Sacrality | |||
Rethinking Script Patterns as Apotropaia: The Case of a Stucco Panel from Mosul | |||
2021-22 | Negotiating Urban Transformation in Early Republican Istanbul, 1923-1949 | ||
Archaeology and Cultural Policy in Ottoman Tunisia | |||
Imagining a World: Artistic and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Iran | |||
2020-21 | The Collection of Muhammad Khaznadar, the first Tunisian dignitary to excavate the ancient site of Carthage | ||
2019-20 | The Collection of Muhammad Khaznadar, the first Tunisian dignitary to excavate the ancient site of Carthage | ||
Ṭirāz: Production, Administration and Consumption of Inscribed Textiles from Egypt under the Umayyad, ʻAbbāsid and Fāṭimid Dynasties. | |||
2018-19 | The Uses of Antiquities: Archaeology, Museums, and Diplomacy in Pre-colonial Tunisia | ||
Turkish Habits: Ottoman Fashion and Self-Fashioning on the World Stage | |||
2013-14 | Beyond "Ottoman Photography:" Visuality, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Locality in the Late Ottoman Empire | ||
Persian Sources on Early Science | |||
Documentary evidence for Safavid architectural history | |||
The Material Culture of the Crusader States and their Neighbors: The Case of Kinet | |||
2012-13 | A City at the Crossroads of 19th-Century Transformations: Mardin | ||
Persian Sources on Early Science | |||
2011-12 | Petrified Powers: Materials, Forms, and Theories of Medieval Islamic Talismans | ||
Edirne: An Old Capital of Ottoman Empire | |||
The opus sectile decorations of Mamluk Cairo and the language of ornament in the medieval Mediterranean | |||
2010-11 | Ars Erotica: 'Visualizing' the Sensual Sufi in Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Miniature Paintings, Poetry and Sufi Narratives | ||
The Islamic Collection of the Ottoman Imperial Museum and the Contribution of Halil Edhem | |||
Stucco and Calligraphic Ornamental Design in Northern Khurasan from Pre- to Early-Islamic Period (5-11th Centuries AD) | |||
Humayun's Patronage of Painting: A Reappraisal | |||
Contemporary Saudi Art: What has Islam to do with it? | |||
Amity Nichols Law | |||
2009-10 | The Bride of Trebizond: Turks and Turkmens on a Florentine Wedding Chest, circa 1460 | ||
Amity Nichols Law | Cultural Modeling and Identity: The Western Mediterranean, Africa and Northern Europe, 1348-1492 | ||
2008-09 | Relationship Between Fatimid and Andalusi Textiles | ||
The Aesthetics of Antiquarianism in Cross-Cultural Perspective: On Collecting, Displaying and the Reinvention of the Self in Cairo (1863-1881) | |||
Min Yong Cho | How Land Came into the Picture: Rendering History in the 14th-Century Jami al-Tawarikh | ||
Textual and Visual Urban Ethnographies of the Early Modern Persianate World | |||
Research into an unpublished Mughal illustrated manuscript | |||
2007-08 | The Contribution of the South Arabian Civilization to the Creative Process of Umayyad Iconography | ||
Research into an unpublished Mughal illustrated manuscript | |||
Domestic Architecture in Damascus during the 17th century: a View from the Tribunal Court Records of the City | |||
Research on the architectural and material culture structured around the provincial notables (of the Ottoman Empire, 1792-1812?) | |||
2006-07 | Analysis of Ottoman Ceremony Miniatures According to the Perceptions of the Aspects | ||
Churches and Mosques in Medieval Syria | |||
Trade and Patronage in the Indian Ocean: Material Culture of the Muslim Trade Networks of Western India | |||
Urban and Architecural Patterns in Bilād al-Šām between the VI and XII Centuries as a Mirror of Social-political Relations Among Different Religious Communities | |||
2005-06 | The Umma of Craft: Continuities and Discontinuities in Islamic Ivory Carving, 8th-12th/AH 2nd-6th Centuries | ||
The Agricultural Aspect of the Early Islamic Qusur | |||
The Archaeology of the Islamic World: An Introduction | |||
2004-05 | Shukur Askarov | ‘The Timurids’ Classics’ - Timurids’ Architectural History | |
The Tiles on The Dome of The Rock, Jerusalem | |||
The Three Outstanding Gems in Islamic Art: The Ruby, The Emerald, and Pearls | |||
2003-04 | |||
Remapping Boundaries of Art and Culture in Mediterranean World (c. 950-1250) | |||
Research for Constantinople/Istanbul: The Ottoman Capital in the Making | |||
Yury Karev | |||
2002-03 | Marianne Barrucand | Forms and Functions of Ornament in Fatimid Architecture | |
Yury Karev | Building the References in Pre-Mongol Central Asia: Between Reality and Imaginary World | ||
Relations Between Medieval Islamic Literature and the Visual Artist | |||
Vildan Serdaroğlu Şişman | Architecture in a Poet's Imagination: An Analysis of Architectural Elements in the Diwan of Zati Çelebi (1471-1546) | ||
2001-02 | |||
Research for Venice and the East | |||
Garden and Palace of Shah Jahan | |||
Research for Conservation and Integration into the Regional Tourism of Common Cultural Heritage in Meric District | |||