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School of Art & Art History

USF College of Design, Art & Performance

Esra Akin-Kivanç

Associate Professor, Art and Architecture of the Middle East and North Africa
Ph.D. The Ohio State ܽƵapp
Phone: 813.974.2360
Email: eakinkivanc@usf.edu
Office: FAH 251

Esra Akın-Kıvanç holds the Doctor of Philosophy in the History of Art from The Ohio State ܽƵapp. 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. Akın-Kıvanç teaches courses in Islamic art, architecture, visual, and material culture.

She is the author of Mustafa ‘Ali’s 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 ܽƵapp Press, 2020). She co-authored, with Howard Crane, Sinan’s Autobiographies: Five Sixteenth-century Texts (Leiden: Brill, 2006). Dr. Akın-Kıvanç’s past research and publications were supported by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard ܽƵapp, the Presidential Scholarship at The Ohio State ܽƵapp, 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 ܽƵapp 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 ܽƵapp Press, 2018.

“Ottoman Calligraphy: Form, Meaning, and Function.” Linda Darling (ed.). A Sourcebook for Ottoman Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge ܽƵapp Press, 2024.

Peer-Reviewed Research Articles

Dumbarton Oaks Papers 75 (Jan. 2022): 237–62.

The Journal of Ottoman Studies 48 (July, 2016): 229-268.

Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies 2, no. (2015): 225–258.

Book Reviews

by François-Xavier Fauvelle (Princeton: Princeton ܽƵapp Press, 2018), Speculum 95/2 (April 2020): 547–48.

(Edinburgh: Edinburgh ܽƵapp Press, 2019), College Art Association Reviews (March 2020).

Invited Essays

“Modern Narratives of the Past at Çatalhöyük.” The Middle East and South Asia Folklore Bulletin. Vol. 16, NOS 2/3 (Spring/Autumn, 2000): 6-10

 

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Grants and Fellowships

  • 2023 Proposal Enhancement Grant, Office of Research and Innovation, ܽƵapp of South Florida
  • 2022 Fall Research Grant, College of Design, Art & Performance, ܽƵapp of South Florida
  • 2021 Creative Scholarship Grant, ܽƵapp
  • 2019 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Grant
  • 2017 Summer Research Grant, College of Design, Art & Performance, ܽƵapp of South Florida
  • 2017 Creative Scholarship Grant, ܽƵapp
  • 2017 Faculty International Travel Grant, ܽƵapp
  • 2015 Summer Research Grant, College of Design, Art & Performance, ܽƵapp of South Florida
  • 2015 Travel Grant, College of Design, Art & Performance, ܽƵapp
  • 2014 New Researcher Grant, ܽƵapp
  • 2011-2013 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Oberlin College and Conservatory
  • 2004 Presidential Fellowship, The Ohio State ܽƵapp
  • 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, ܽƵapp of Chicago, Summer Consortium in Arabic
  • 2002 CIC Traveling Scholar, ܽƵapp of Chicago, Summer Consortium in Arabic
  • 2000 Research Travel Grant, Office of International Education, The Ohio State ܽƵapp

AWARDS

  • 2020 Outstanding Faculty Award, The Provost’s Office, ܽƵapp

  • 2018 Outstanding Faculty Award, The Provost’s Office, ܽƵapp

  • 2015-2016 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, ܽƵapp

  • 2002 Graduate Associate Teaching Award, The Ohio State ܽƵapp