Temple University

Miray Eroglu (she/her) is a first-year PhD student at Temple University studying Islamic art, concentrating on Ottoman art and architecture. Her research interests span the 18th to 20th centuries, exploring urbanity, sites of sociability, performance, affect, gender, and sexuality, with a focus on the romantic and erotic. 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. Recently, 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). 

BA, Honors Art History, French, and Medieval Studies, McGill University, 2019 
MA, Art History and Archaeology, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, 2021 

Primary Advisor: Emily Neumeier, PhD