Philip Geisler is a doctoral fellow at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, where he writes a dissertation about Islamic art displays in Europe and North America. He obtained a degree in journalism and media economics at the Medienakademie Berlin before studying art history, Islamic studies, and political science at Freie Universität Berlin and at Harvard University. He has published on early modern Ottoman architecture and urban configurations, the connections of architecture, colonial visual culture, and dance heritage, the history of architectural branding in the Middle East, and is currently working on a publication about utopian aesthetics and urban form in the Gulf emirates. From 2013 until 2019, he worked at the Forum Transregionale Studien for Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices, a research program of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max-Planck-Institut) and the Forum. He is a recipient of the Ottoman & Turkish Studies Association’s Sydney N. Fisher Prize and is a former fellow of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. As a music manager and dramaturg, he has worked for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and for jazz and contemporary music ensembles within the cosmos of ECM. In 2020, he became an international nominator of the Aga Khan Music Awards. In his ongoing journalistic activities, he publishes in the TRAFO Blog for Transregional Research, VAN music magazine, and hosts discussions at Berlin's international literature festival, the poetry festival versfest, and the Berliner Philharmonie.

Art/Art History

History Of Architecture

Ottoman Studies

Music

Gulf Studies

Cultural Studies

19th-21st Centuries

Europe

Gulf

North America

Ottoman Empire

Museums And Displays Of Islamic Art

Preservation Of Tangible And Intangible Heritage

Architectural Culture

English (fluent)

German (native)

French (intermediate)

Arabic (elementary)

Spanish (elementary)