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[**Yasmine Al-Saleh**](http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/people/gradstudents/phd)   
[CMES/HAA](http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/gradprograms/phd/haa) G-8  
Dissertation title: "Licit Magic: The Touch and Sight of Islamic Talismanic Scrolls"  
  
[**Anastassiia Botchkareva**](mailto:abotchk@fas.harvard.edu)   
[HAA](http://haa.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k11229&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup121351) G-5  
Research interests: Islamic Arts of the book, Safavid and Mughal painting in the 16c.–18c.  
  
[**Peter Christensen**](http://www.peterhchristensen.com/)   
[GSD](http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/academic-programs/doctoral-programs/phd/index.html) G-5  
Research interests: Orientalism, connoisseurship, and infrastructure in the Ottoman empire and Central Europe, 19c.–20c.  
  
[**Merih Danali**](mailto:merihuz@fas.harvard.edu)   
[HAA](http://haa.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k11229&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup121351) G-6  
Research interests: Self-representation, cultural and artistic identity in Byzantium and the Ottoman world (ca. 1300-1453)  
  
[**Farshid Emami**](mailto:faremami@fas.harvard.edu)   
[HAA](http://haa.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k11229&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup121351) G-2  
Research interests: Architecture and urbanism in Safavid Iran  
  
[**Jesse Howell**](http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/people/gradstudents/phd)   
[CMES/History](http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/gradprograms/phd/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**](mailto:zoguz@fas.harvard.edu)   
[HAA](http://haa.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k11229&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup121351) G-6  
Research interests: Architectural complexes and urbanism in the Early Ottoman context  
  
[**Katie Pfohl**](mailto:kapfohl@fas.harvard.edu)   
[HAA](http://haa.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k11229&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup121351) G-7  
Research interests: American perceptions of non-figural Islamic pattern in the genesis of Western painterly abstraction in the 19c.  
  
[**Ünver Rüstem**](mailto:urustem@fas.harvard.edu)   
[HAA](http://haa.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k11229&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup121351) G-7  
Research interests: Ottoman architecture in 18c Istanbul and the so-called Turkish Baroque of the city's sultanic mosques  
  
[**Abbey Stockstill**](mailto:astockstill@fas.harvard.edu)   
[HAA](http://haa.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k11229&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup121351) G-2  
Research interests: Purity and North African identity in al-Andalus, 9th-11th centuries.  
  
[**Melis Taner**](mailto:mtaner@fas.harvard.edu)   
[HAA](http://haa.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k11229&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup121351) G-4  
Research interests: Ottoman miniature painting in the 16c.–17c.  
  
[**Deniz Türker**](mailto:dturker@fas.harvard.edu)   
[CMES/HAA](http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/gradprograms/phd/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**](mailto:ziyal@fas.harvard.edu)   
[HAA](http://haa.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k11229&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup121351) G-5  
Research interests: Cross-cultural and artistic exchange between Renaissance Europe, Byzantium, and the Ottoman Empire