Esra Akin-Kivan莽
Associate Professor, Art and Architecture of the Middle East and North Africa
Ph.D. The Ohio State University
Phone: 813.974.2360
Email: eakinkivanc@usf.edu
Office: FAH 251
Esra Ak谋n-K谋van莽 holds the Doctor of Philosophy in the History of Art from The Ohio State University. Prior to her appointment at USF, she taught at Oberlin College and Conservatory, where she held the position of Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History and Religion. Dr. Ak谋n-K谋van莽 teaches courses in Islamic art, architecture, visual, and material culture.
She is the author of Mustafa 鈥楢li鈥檚 Epic Deeds of Artists: A Study on the Earliest Ottoman Text of the Islamic World (Leiden: Brill, 2011) and Muthanna/Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy: History, Theory, and Aesthetics (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020). She co-authored, with Howard Crane, Sinan鈥檚 Autobiographies: Five Sixteenth-century Texts (Leiden: Brill, 2006). Dr. Ak谋n-K谋van莽鈥檚 past research and publications were supported by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University, the Presidential Scholarship at The Ohio State University, the American Research Institute in Turkey, American Council of Learned Societies, and National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. She is currently preparing two monographs titled, Ottoman Art of Calligraphic Design: A New History and Connected by Design: Islamic Calligraphy in Christian Art.
Courses Taught
Surveys
Introduction to Islamic Art and Architecture
Visual Cultures of the Middle East
Faces of Islam: Society, Culture, Art (with Professor Roy Kaplan)
Themes in Islamic Art and Architecture
Seminars
Ottoman Imperial Identity and Visual Culture
Cross-Cultural Interactions in Islamic Art
The Human Figure in Islamic Art
Cultural Heritage: The Middle East and North Africa
Abstraction in Islamic Art and Architecture
Istanbul: Art, Architecture and Culture
Ornament in Islamic Art and Architecture
Publications
Monographs
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020.
Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2011.
Co-author with Howard Crane. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006.
Book Chapters
Hani Khafipour (ed.). Empires of the Near East and India: Sources for the Study of Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Societies. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
鈥淥ttoman Calligraphy: Form, Meaning, and Function.鈥� Linda Darling (ed.). A Sourcebook for Ottoman Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Peer-Reviewed Research Articles
Dumbarton Oaks Papers 75 (Jan. 2022): 237鈥�62.
The Journal of Ottoman Studies 48 (July, 2016): 229-268.
Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies 2, no. (2015): 225鈥�258.
Book Reviews
by Fran莽ois-Xavier Fauvelle (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018), Speculum 95/2 (April 2020): 547鈥�48.
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), College Art Association Reviews (March 2020).
Invited Essays
鈥淢odern Narratives of the Past at 脟atalh枚y眉k.鈥� The Middle East and South Asia Folklore Bulletin. Vol. 16, NOS 2/3 (Spring/Autumn, 2000): 6-10
VIDEO PRESENTATIONS
Interviews
Grants and Fellowships
- 2023 Proposal Enhancement Grant, Office of Research and Innovation, University of South Florida
- 2022 Fall Research Grant, College of Design, Art & Performance, University of South Florida
- 2021 Creative Scholarship Grant, 哔咔漫画
- 2019 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Grant
- 2017 Summer Research Grant, College of Design, Art & Performance, University of South Florida
- 2017 Creative Scholarship Grant, 哔咔漫画
- 2017 Faculty International Travel Grant, 哔咔漫画
- 2015 Summer Research Grant, College of Design, Art & Performance, University of South Florida
- 2015 Travel Grant, College of Design, Art & Performance, 哔咔漫画
- 2014 New Researcher Grant, 哔咔漫画
- 2011-2013 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Oberlin College and Conservatory
- 2004 Presidential Fellowship, The Ohio State University
- 2003 Dissertation Writing Grant, American Research Institute in Turkey
- 2003 Samuel Kress Travel Fellowship in the History of Art, June 2003 (declined)
- 2003 CIC Traveling Scholar, University of Chicago, Summer Consortium in Arabic
- 2002 CIC Traveling Scholar, University of Chicago, Summer Consortium in Arabic
- 2000 Research Travel Grant, Office of International Education, The Ohio State University
AWARDS
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2020 Outstanding Faculty Award, The Provost鈥檚 Office, 哔咔漫画
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2018 Outstanding Faculty Award, The Provost鈥檚 Office, 哔咔漫画
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2015-2016 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, 哔咔漫画
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2002 Graduate Associate Teaching Award, The Ohio State University