PhD in Art History
Özlem Yıldız
- Email: ozlem@temple.edu
Özlem Yıldız (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate and a University Fellow specializing in cross-cultural exchanges in early modern Islamic book painting. She holds a fellowship in the History of Art and Visual Culture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she conducts research for her dissertation and assists with museum projects. In her dissertation, she investigates the relationship between the material and symbolic aspects of Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal depictions of the lives of the Abrahamic prophets from the sixteenth century. Özlem’s research and training have been funded by the Barakat Trust International Studentship, SOAS Ralph Pinder-Wilson Travel Award, and Max Van Berchem Scholarship for Young Scholars, among other awards and scholarships. Her article, “A Wise Enemy: The Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Portrayal of the Polish Commander Stanislaw Zolkiewski,” was published in IKON Journal of Iconographic Studies in 2022. Özlem has taught courses titled “Arts of the World”, “The Art of Sacred Space in Islamic Cultures”, and “Visualizing the Prophets”, at Temple University.
MA, History of Art and Architecture of the Islamic Middle East, SOAS University of London, 2018
MA, History, Sabancı University, 2017
BA, Social and Political Sciences, minor in Art Theory and Criticism, Sabanci University, 2015
Dissertation Title: “Illustrating the Lives of the Prophets in Sixteenth-Century Islamic Manuscripts”
Advisor: Emily Neumeier