Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
ABOUT
Alev Berberoğlu is an art historian with a focus on the late nineteenth-century Ottoman visual culture. In 2023, she obtained her doctoral degree from the Department of Archaeology and History of Art at Koç University with her dissertation entitled “Unwritten Histories of Photography: Elisa Zonaro, an Italian Photographer in Ottoman Istanbul.” During her doctoral years, she studied a semester at the University of Bologna within the Erasmus+ exchange programme and she conducted research in Paris in affiliation with CETOBaC thanks to the French Embassy Research Fellowship. Prior to her PhD studies, she received her MA in Arts Management from Yeditepe University, and completed her BA with a double major in English Language and Literature and Latin Language and Literature at Istanbul University. Before joining the Department Michalsky as a postdoctoral fellow, Berberoğlu was a researcher for various museums including Museum Ludwig (Köln), ARTER (Istanbul), and Sadberk Hanım Museum (Istanbul).
Discipline
Art/Art History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Gender/Women's Studies
Modernization
Ottoman Studies
Visual Cultural
Geographic Areas of Interest
Europe
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Photography In The Ottoman Empire; Ottoman Art History; Nineteenth-century Ottoman Visual Culture; Italian And Ottoman Interactions; Gender And Historiography
Languages
German (elementary)
Turkish (native)
English (advanced)
Italian (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Ottoman (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2023
| Archaeology and History of Art
| Koç University
MA
| 2013
| Arts Management
| Yeditepe University
BA
| 2008
| Latin Language and Literature
| Istanbul University
BA
| 2007
| English Language and Literature
| Istanbul University
Abstracts
Healing the Ottoman Children, Healing the Imperial Image: Photographs from the Hamidiye Children's Hospital
Translated Images: Late Ottoman Perceptions of Naples
