Students

Yasmine Al-Saleh 
CMES/HAA G-8
Dissertation title: "Licit Magic: The Touch and Sight of Islamic Talismanic Scrolls"

Anastassiia Botchkareva 
HAA G-5
Research interests: Islamic Arts of the book, Safavid and Mughal painting in the 16c.–18c.

Peter Christensen 
GSD G-5
Research interests: Orientalism, connoisseurship, and infrastructure in the Ottoman empire and Central Europe, 19c.–20c.

Merih Danali 
HAA G-6
Research interests: Self-representation, cultural and artistic identity in Byzantium and the Ottoman world (ca. 1300-1453)

Farshid  Emami 
HAA G-2
Research interests: Architecture and urbanism in Safavid Iran

Jesse Howell 
CMES/History G-7
Research interests: Interactions between the Ottoman Empire and the Italian city-states of the Adriatic in the early modern era

Zeynep Oğuz 
HAA G-6
Research interests: Architectural complexes and urbanism in the Early Ottoman context

Katie Pfohl 
HAA G-7
Research interests: American perceptions of non-figural Islamic pattern in the genesis of Western painterly abstraction in the 19c.

Ünver Rüstem 
HAA G-7
Research interests: Ottoman architecture in 18c Istanbul and the so-called Turkish Baroque of the city's sultanic mosques

Abbey Stockstill 
HAA G-2
Research interests: Purity and North African identity in al-Andalus, 9th-11th centuries.

Melis Taner 
HAA G-4
Research interests: Ottoman miniature painting in the 16c.–17c.

Deniz Türker 
CMES/HAA G-4
Coordinator of the Ornament as Portable Culture: Between Globalism and Localism conference
Research interests: Nineteenth century Ottoman architectural practice, palatial complexes and garden culture, the Yildiz palace grounds.

Ömer Ziyal 
HAA G-5
Research interests: Cross-cultural and artistic exchange between Renaissance Europe, Byzantium, and the Ottoman Empire