Selin Ozulkulu

PhD Candidate

Areas of interest: Nineteenth-Century Cross-Cultural Contact Between Western Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean; Imperial/National Self-Fashioning; Artistic Self-Representations; Cyclicality of Reception.

Selin Ozulkulu holds a MA in History of Art from Williams College and a BA in Psychology and History of Art and Architecture from Brown University. Her MA Qualifying Paper dissected, through a global artist network, Orientalism’s role and varying materializations during the increased globalization of the nineteenth-century. As the 2021-2022 Fulbright Greece-Turkey Joint Research Awardee, she researched Theodor Makridi Bey (1872-1940) and his museological ideals and practices in affiliation with Boğaziçi University, University of Athens, and the ASCSA. She has worked at various art institutions including Williams College Museum of Art, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, and RISD Museum.