# Fellows ## expand\_more **Recent AKPIA Postdoctoral Fellows** Sort**Year** **Fellow** **Research Topic** **2025-26** [Erin Hyde Nolan](https://www.bates.edu/faculty/profile/erin-h-nolan/) Portrait Atlas: Photographic Migration Across the Ottoman-Atlantic [Serpil Bağci](https://bilkent.academia.edu/SerpilBa%C4%9Fc%C4%B1) A Best-Seller Among Turkish Speaking Patrons: The Fine Copies of the Ottoman İskendernâme (Book of Alexander) **2024-25** [Aleksandar Shopov](https://binghamton.academia.edu/AleksandarShopov) Urban Agriculture and Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Istanbul [Dilrabo Tosheva](https://yale.academia.edu/DilraboTosheva) Qarakhanid Architecture Re-examined: Portals, Patronage, and Consolidating Power in Muslim Transoxiana [Deniz Türker](https://arthistory.rutgers.edu/people/full-time-faculty/faculty-member/43-full-time-faculty/949-turker-deniz) Yıldız Moran and the Anatolian Lens **2023-24** [M. Emily Neumeier](https://temple.academia.edu/EmilyNeumeier) Confronting the Ottoman Baroque in 20th-Century Istanbul [Melis Taner](https://ozyegin.academia.edu/MelisTaner) Illustrated *Materia Medica* and Itinerant Plants in the Mediterranean [E. Sara Wolper ](https://unh.academia.edu/EthelSaraWolper) Shrines and the Politics of Reconstruction in Iraq and Turkey [Rebecca Wrightson](https://web.uri.edu/art/meet/rebecca_wrightson/) Re-evaluating the Luster Ceramics of 9th- and 10th- century Mesopotamia in light of the Epigraphic Evidence **2022-23** [Susana Calvo Capilla](https://ucm.academia.edu/SusanaCalvoCapilla) Reframing forms and functions in Islamic architecture in al-Andalus and in its Mediterranean context, from Maghreb to Syria [Fatma Dahmani](https://univ-paris1.academia.edu/Dahmani) A Study of the Paintings of the Private Houses of Samarra [Alya Karame](https://college-de-france.academia.edu/alyakarame) From Copying to Burning the Qur'an: Creating Models & Transposing Sacrality [Zahra Kazani](https://uvic.academia.edu/ZahraKazani) Rethinking Script Patterns as Apotropaia: The Case of a Stucco Panel from Mosul **2021-22** [Ümit Firat Açikgöz](https://aub-lb.academia.edu/%C3%9CmitF%C4%B1ratA%C3%A7%C4%B1kg%C3%B6z) Negotiating Urban Transformation in Early Republican Istanbul, 1923-1949 [Ridha Moumni](https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ridha-moumni-182b0776) Archaeology and Cultural Policy in Ottoman Tunisia [Kishwar Rizvi](https://arthistory.yale.edu/people/kishwar-rizvi) Imagining a World: Artistic and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Iran **2020-21** [Ridha Moumni](https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ridha-moumni-182b0776) The Collection of Muhammad Khaznadar, the first Tunisian dignitary to excavate the ancient site of Carthage **2019-20** [Ridha Moumni](https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ridha-moumni-182b0776) The Collection of Muhammad Khaznadar, the first Tunisian dignitary to excavate the ancient site of Carthage [Jochen Sokoly](https://vcu.academia.edu/JochenSokoly/) Ṭirāz: Production, Administration and Consumption of Inscribed Textiles from Egypt under the Umayyad, ʻAbbāsid and Fāṭimid Dynasties. **2018-19** [Ridha Moumni](https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ridha-moumni-182b0776) The Uses of Antiquities: Archaeology, Museums, and Diplomacy in Pre-colonial Tunisia [Ünver Rüstem](https://johnshopkins.academia.edu/%C3%9CnverR%C3%BCstem) Turkish Habits: Ottoman Fashion and Self-Fashioning on the World Stage **2013-14** [Ahmet Ersoy](https://boun.academia.edu/AhmetAErsoy) Beyond "Ottoman Photography:" Visuality, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Locality in the Late Ottoman Empire [Elaheh Kheirandish](https://scholar.harvard.edu/ekheirandish/publications-0) Persian Sources on Early Science [Charles Melville](/http:/cambridge.academia.edu/CharlesMelville) Documentary evidence for Safavid architectural history [Scott Redford](https://soas-uk.academia.edu/ScottRedford) The Material Culture of the Crusader States and their Neighbors: The Case of Kinet **2012-13** [Birgül Acıkyıldız-Şengül](https://univ-montp3.academia.edu/Birg%C3%BClA%C3%A7%C4%B1ky%C4%B1ld%C4%B1z%C5%9Eeng%C3%BCl) A City at the Crossroads of 19th-Century Transformations: Mardin [Elaheh Kheirandish](https://scholar.harvard.edu/ekheirandish/publications-0) Persian Sources on Early Science **2011-12** [Persis Berlekamp](https://arthistory.uchicago.edu/faculty/profiles/berlekamp) Petrified Powers: Materials, Forms, and Theories of Medieval Islamic Talismans [Nevnihal Erdoğan](https://avesis.kocaeli.edu.tr/nevnihal.erdogan) Edirne: An Old Capital of Ottoman Empire [Ruggero Longo](https://www.biblhertz.it/en/ruggero-longo) The *opus sectile* decorations of Mamluk Cairo and the language of ornament in the medieval Mediterranean **2010-11** [Afshan Bokhari](https://twitter.com/afshanbokhari) Ars Erotica: 'Visualizing' the Sensual Sufi in Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Miniature Paintings, Poetry and Sufi Narratives [Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım](https://brooklynmuseum.academia.edu/AysinYoltar) The Islamic Collection of the Ottoman Imperial Museum and the Contribution of Halil Edhem [Nasiba Baimatowa](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nasiba-s-baimatowa-54069711a) Stucco and Calligraphic Ornamental Design in Northern Khurasan from Pre- to Early-Islamic Period (5-11th Centuries AD) [Laura Parodi](https://unige-it1.academia.edu/LauraParodi) Humayun's Patronage of Painting: A Reappraisal [Maha al-Senan](https://pnu-sa.academia.edu/mahaalsenan) Contemporary Saudi Art: What has Islam to do with it? Amity Nichols Law **2009-10** [Cristelle Baskins](https://tufts.academia.edu/CristelleBaskins) 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](https://iis.academia.edu/MiriamAlideUnzaga) Relationship Between Fatimid and Andalusi Textiles [Mercedes Volait](https://inha-fr.academia.edu/MercedesVolait) 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](https://www.bu.edu/wll/profile/sunil-sharma/) Textual and Visual Urban Ethnographies of the Early Modern Persianate World [Pedro Moura Carvalho](https://independent.academia.edu/PedroMouraCarvalho) Research into an unpublished Mughal illustrated manuscript **2007-08** [Nadia Ali](https://iremam.mmsh.fr/en/node/101064) The Contribution of the South Arabian Civilization to the Creative Process of Umayyad Iconography [Pedro Moura Carvalho](https://independent.academia.edu/PedroMouraCarvalho) Research into an unpublished Mughal illustrated manuscript [Abdal Razzaq-Moaz](https://paris-iea.academia.edu/AbdalrazzaqMoaz) Domestic Architecture in Damascus during the 17th century: a View from the Tribunal Court Records of the City [Ali Yaycioğlu](https://fsi.stanford.edu/people/ali-yaycioglu) Research on the architectural and material culture structured around the provincial notables (of the Ottoman Empire, 1792-1812?) [Mattia Guidetti](https://unibo.academia.edu/MattiaGuidetti) **2006-07** [Zeynep Ertug](https://avesis.istanbul.edu.tr/zeynep.ertug) Analysis of Ottoman Ceremony Miniatures According to the Perceptions of the Aspects [Mattia Guidetti](https://unibo.academia.edu/MattiaGuidetti) Churches and Mosques in Medieval Syria [Elizabeth Lambourn](https://dmu.academia.edu/ElizabethLambourn) Trade and Patronage in the Indian Ocean: Material Culture of the Muslim Trade Networks of Western India [Rachel Milstein](https://overseas.huji.ac.il/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](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-cutler-930883200) The Umma of Craft: Continuities and Discontinuities in Islamic Ivory Carving, 8th-12th/AH 2nd-6th Centuries [Rebecca Foote](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-foote-2b69a253) The Agricultural Aspect of the Early Islamic Qusur [Marcus Milwright](https://uvic.academia.edu/MarcusMilwright) The Archaeology of the Islamic World: An Introduction **2004-05** Shukur Askarov ‘The Timurids’ Classics’ - Timurids’ Architectural History [John Carswell](https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff42914.php) The Tiles on The Dome of The Rock, Jerusalem [Ghadah Hejjawi Qaddumi](https://kw.linkedin.com/in/ghada-hijjawi-qaddumi-23014b38) The Three Outstanding Gems in Islamic Art: The Ruby, The Emerald, and Pearls **2003-04** [Ahmet Ersoy](https://boun.academia.edu/AhmetAErsoy) [Eva R. Hoffman](https://as.tufts.edu/art-architecture/people/faculty/eva-hoffman) Remapping Boundaries of Art and Culture in Mediterranean World (c. 950-1250) [Çiğdem Kafescioğlu](https://hist.boun.edu.tr/people/cigdem-kafescioglu) 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](https://harvard.academia.edu/SibelBozdogan) Yury Karev Building the References in Pre-Mongol Central Asia: Between Reality and Imaginary World [Ebba Koch](https://univie.academia.edu/EbbaKoch) [Julie Scott Meisami](https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/news/passing-announced-wolfson-fellow) 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](https://mauricecerasi.wordpress.com/) [Deborah Howard](https://cambridge.academia.edu/DeborahHoward/Papers) Research for Venice and the East [Ebba Koch](https://univie.academia.edu/EbbaKoch) Garden and Palace of Shah Jahan [Ayşe Gülçin Küçükkaya](https://independent.academia.edu/AyseGulcinKucukkaya) Research for Conservation and Integration into the Regional Tourism of Common Cultural Heritage in Meric District [Oya Pancaroğlu](https://boun.academia.edu/OyaPancaro%C4%9Flu) [Ghada Hijjawi Qaddumi](https://wcc-europe.org/whats-on/news/tribute-to-dr-ghada-hijjawi-qaddumi/)