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Prof. Dr. Nebahat Avcıoğlu received her BA in Architecture from Istanbul Technical University. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, Department of History of Art. She has held several Post-Doctoral and Research Fellowships, notably at Harvard University (Aga Khan Fellow), Dumbarton Oaks, Oxford University (Barakat Trust Fellow), and Columbia University (Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall in Paris). Before joining Hunter College in 2011, Avcıoğlu taught at the University of Cambridge as a Newton Trust and Barakat Trust Lecturer, the University of Manchester, Sciences-Po Paris, and at MIT as a Visiting Professor.
Prof. Avcıoğlu specializes in Islamic art and architecture with a particular emphasis on Ottoman and European cultural encounters. Her research interests center on dissemination and transformation of forms and cultures, theories of artistic contact, and socio-political aspects of the history of architecture from the early seventeenth century to the present. Her publications focus on imperialism, art and travel, the Enlightenment and exoticism, nineteenth century Orientalism in architecture, post-classical Istanbul and modern and contemporary mosques in Europe. Currently, Prof. Avcıoğlu continues teaching at Hunter College.
Publications:
Turquerie and the Politics of Representation, 1728-1876. Ashgate Publishers, 2011.
Globalising Cultures. Art and Mobility in the Eighteenth Century. (ed. with B. Flood), special issue, Ars Orientalis vol. 39, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2011.
′Kiosque′ in 1740, Un abrégé du monde. Savoir et collections autour de Dezallier d′Argenville. ed. Anne Lafont, Editions Fage, 2012.
′The Turkish Bath in the West′ in Bathhouses in Anatolia and Beyond: Architecture, History and Imagination. ed. Nina Ergin, Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2011, pp. 267-304.
′Stanislas en Grand Seigneur, ou le Turban et la Couronne′, in Turqueries et autres chinoiseries. L′Exotisme en Lorraine au XVIIIè siècle. (Exhibition catalogue), Château de Lunéville, 2009, pp. 20-26.
′The Contemporary Mosque: "in what style should we build"′ in The Mosque Manifesto, the emancipation of a building in the West. eds. Ergün Erkoçu and Cihan Bugdac, Amsterdam, March, 2009, pp. 44-60.
′Voyages du style : récits visuels et orientalisme en Angleterre à l′époque des Lumières′ in Les Orientalismes en architecture à l′épreuve des savoirs. eds. Mercedes Volait and Nabila Oulebsir, Editions Picard/Collection INHA, Paris, 2009, pp. 131-154.
′19. yuzyil. Osmanli saraylari ve emperialismin son goreysel cabalari′ (Nineteenth century Ottoman palace and the visual discourse of imperial representation) in Dolmabahce Palace 150 years old. Istanbul, 2008 (in Turkish), pp. 118-130.
′Istanbul: The palimpsest city in search of its architext′, in RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics. vol. 53/54 (Spring and Autumn, 2008), pp. 188-208.
′Form-as-Identity: The Mosque in the West′ in Cultural Analysis (published also electronically), vol. 6, February 2008, pp. 91-112, http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~caforum/
′A Palace of One′s Own: Stanislas I′s (1677-1766) Turkish Kiosks and the idea of Self-Representation′, in Art Bulletin, vol. 85 no. 4 (December 2003) pp. 662-684.
′Ahmed I and the Allegories of Tyranny in the Frontispiece to George Sandys′s Relation of a Journey Anno. Dom.1610′, in Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, Brill, 18 (September 2001) pp. 203-226.
′David Urquhart and the Role of Travel Literature in the Introduction of Turkish Baths to Victorian England′, in Interpreting the Orient: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East. eds. Paul and Janet Starkey (Ithaca Press: 2001) pp. 69-81.
′Constructions of Turkish Baths as a Social Reform for Victorian Society: the Case of the Jermyn Street Hammam′ in The Hidden Iceberg of Architectural History. Papers from the Annual Symposium of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. eds., Colin Cunningham and James Anderson, (London: 1998) pp. 59-78.
Reference: hunter.cuny.edu
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