Miray Eroglu Wielert is a PhD candidate concentrating on late Ottoman visual culture. Her research interests span the 18th to 20th centuries, exploring urbanity, sites of sociability, performance, affect, and romance. Miray holds a M.A. in Art History from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, where she wrote her thesis on depictions of couples in late 17th- and 18th-century Ottoman bazaar paintings, and a B.A. from McGill University. During her studies, she interned in the Islamic Art Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and at Artam Antik Auction house in Istanbul. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, she worked at The Winter Show Art Fair as a gallery assistant for Keshishian Carpets, London and as a copy editor and editorial assistant for YILLIK: Journal of Istanbul Studies, and assisted exhibitions at the Istanbul Research Institute (Occupied City: Politics and Daily Life in Istanbul, 1918–1923) and at Pera Museum (What Byzantinism is this in Istanbul! Byzantium in Popular Culture). 

She has taught Art History at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, and her research has been supported by the Marcia Hall Research Award. She has presented her work at the Association of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) in New York, and at Erfurt University at the workshop, “Figures, Types, and Images of the Social in the 19th and 20th Century: Practices of Social Imagining in the History of Knowledge and the Sciences.”  

BA, Honors Art History, French, and Medieval Studies, McGill University

MA, Art History and Archaeology, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts