Recent AKPIA Postdoctoral Fellows
| Year | Fellow | Research Topic | |
| 2023-24 | M. Emily Neumeier | Confronting the Ottoman Baroque in 20th-Century Istanbul | |
| Melis Taner | Illustrated Materia Medica and Itinerant Plants in the Mediterranean | ||
| E. Sara Wolper | Shrines and the Politics of Reconstruction in Iraq and Turkey | ||
| Rebecca Wrightson | Re-evaluating the Luster Ceramics of 9th- and 10th- century Mesopotamia in light of the Epigraphic Evidence | ||
| 2022-23 | Susana Calvo Capilla | Reframing forms and functions in Islamic architecture in al-Andalus and in its Mediterranean context, from Maghreb to Syria | |
| Fatma Dahmani | A Study of the Paintings of the Private Houses of Samarra | ||
| Alya Karame | From Copying to Burning the Qur'an: Creating Models & Transposing Sacrality | ||
| Zahra Kazani | Rethinking Script Patterns as Apotropaia: The Case of a Stucco Panel from Mosul | ||
| 2021-22 | Negotiating Urban Transformation in Early Republican Istanbul, 1923-1949 | ||
| Ridha Moumni | Archaeology and Cultural Policy in Ottoman Tunisia | ||
| Kishwar Rizvi | Imagining a World: Artistic and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Iran | ||
| 2020-21 | Ridha Moumni | The Collection of Muhammad Khaznadar, the first Tunisian dignitary to excavate the ancient site of Carthage | |
| 2019-20 | Ridha Moumni | The Collection of Muhammad Khaznadar, the first Tunisian dignitary to excavate the ancient site of Carthage | |
| Jochen Sokoly | Ṭirāz: Production, Administration and Consumption of Inscribed Textiles from Egypt under the Umayyad, ʻAbbāsid and Fāṭimid Dynasties. | ||
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2018-19 |
Ridha Moumni | The Uses of Antiquities: Archaeology, Museums, and Diplomacy in Pre-colonial Tunisia | |
| Ünver Rüstem | Turkish Habits: Ottoman Fashion and Self-Fashioning on the World Stage | ||
| 2013-14 | Ahmet Ersoy | Beyond "Ottoman Photography:" Visuality, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Locality in the Late Ottoman Empire | |
| Elaheh Kheirandish | Persian Sources on Early Science | ||
| Charles Melville | Documentary evidence for Safavid architectural history | ||
| Scott Redford | The Material Culture of the Crusader States and their Neighbors: The Case of Kinet | ||
| 2012-13 | Birgül Acıkyıldız-Şengül | A City at the Crossroads of 19th-Century Transformations: Mardin | |
| Elaheh Kheirandish | Persian Sources on Early Science | ||
| 2011-12 | Persis Berlekamp | Petrified Powers: Materials, Forms, and Theories of Medieval Islamic Talismans | |
| Nevnihal Erdoğan | Edirne: An Old Capital of Ottoman Empire | ||
| Ruggero Longo | The opus sectile decorations of Mamluk Cairo and the language of ornament in the medieval Mediterranean | ||
| 2010-11 | Afshan Bokhari | Ars Erotica: 'Visualizing' the Sensual Sufi in Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Miniature Paintings, Poetry and Sufi Narratives | |
| Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım | The Islamic Collection of the Ottoman Imperial Museum and the Contribution of Halil Edhem | ||
| Nasiba Baimatowa | Stucco and Calligraphic Ornamental Design in Northern Khurasan from Pre- to Early-Islamic Period (5-11th Centuries AD) | ||
| Laura Parodi | Humayun's Patronage of Painting: A Reappraisal | ||
| Maha al-Senan | Contemporary Saudi Art: What has Islam to do with it? | ||
| Amity Nichols Law | |||
| 2009-10 | Cristelle Baskins | 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 | Miriam Ali-de-Unzaga | Relationship Between Fatimid and Andalusi Textiles | |
| Mercedes Volait | 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 | ||
| Sunil Sharma | Textual and Visual Urban Ethnographies of the Early Modern Persianate World | ||
| Pedro Moura Carvalho | Research into an unpublished Mughal illustrated manuscript | ||
| 2007-08 | Nadia Ali | The Contribution of the South Arabian Civilization to the Creative Process of Umayyad Iconography | |
| Pedro Moura Carvalho | Research into an unpublished Mughal illustrated manuscript | ||
| Abdal Razzaq-Moaz | Domestic Architecture in Damascus during the 17th century: a View from the Tribunal Court Records of the City | ||
| Ali Yaycioğlu | Research on the architectural and material culture structured around the provincial notables (of the Ottoman Empire, 1792-1812?) | ||
| Mattia Guidetti | |||
| 2006-07 | Zeynep Ertug | Analysis of Ottoman Ceremony Miniatures According to the Perceptions of the Aspects | |
| Mattia Guidetti | Churches and Mosques in Medieval Syria | ||
| Elizabeth Lambourn | Trade and Patronage in the Indian Ocean: Material Culture of the Muslim Trade Networks of Western India | ||
| Rachel Milstein | 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 | Anthony Cutler | The Umma of Craft: Continuities and Discontinuities in Islamic Ivory Carving, 8th-12th/AH 2nd-6th Centuries | |
| Rebecca Foote | The Agricultural Aspect of the Early Islamic Qusur | ||
| Marcus Milwright | The Archaeology of the Islamic World: An Introduction | ||
| 2004-05 | Shukur Askarov | ‘The Timurids’ Classics’ - Timurids’ Architectural History | |
| John Carswell | The Tiles on The Dome of The Rock, Jerusalem | ||
| Ghadah Hejjawi Qaddumi | The Three Outstanding Gems in Islamic Art: The Ruby, The Emerald, and Pearls | ||
| 2003-04 | Ahmet Ersoy | ||
| Eva R. Hoffman | Remapping Boundaries of Art and Culture in Mediterranean World (c. 950-1250) | ||
| Çiğdem Kafescioğlu | Research for Constantinople/Istanbul: The Ottoman Capital in the Making | ||
| Yury Karev | |||
| 2002-03 | Marianne Barrucand | Forms and Functions of Ornament in Fatimid Architecture | |
| Sibel Bozdoğan | |||
| Yury Karev | Building the References in Pre-Mongol Central Asia: Between Reality and Imaginary World | ||
| Ebba Koch | |||
| Julie Scott Meisami | 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 | Maurice Cerasi | ||
| Deborah Howard | Research for Venice and the East | ||
| Ebba Koch | Garden and Palace of Shah Jahan | ||
| Ayşe Gülçin Küçükkaya | Research for Conservation and Integration into the Regional Tourism of Common Cultural Heritage in Meric District | ||
| Oya Pancaroğlu | |||
| Ghada Hijjawi Qaddumi |