معرفی
Gülru Necipoğlu is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University's History of Art and Architecture Department since 1993. She earned her Ph.D. at Harvard in 1986 and has focused her scholarship on pre-modern Islamic architecture, transregional artistic exchanges, and methodological challenges in Islamic art historiography.
- Ph.D., History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University (1986)
Her research explores aesthetic cosmopolitanism across early modern Islamic empires (Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal), cross-cultural interactions with Byzantium and Renaissance Europe, and the geometric design principles in Islamic architecture. She has also investigated manuscript cultures, urban developments, and material practices in Islamicate societies.
As editor of Muqarnas (vols. 10-40) and its Supplements (vols. 9-14), she has shaped scholarly discourse on Islamic visual cultures. Her authored and edited works have received multiple international awards, including the Charles Lang Freer Medal (2023).
- Albert Hourani Book Award
- Spiro Kostof Book Award
- Fuat Köprülü Book Prize
- 26th World Award for Book of the Year
- Charles Lang Freer Medal
She has advised over 30 Ph.D. and M.A. students on topics spanning Ottoman funerary complexes, Safavid urbanism, Mughal visual culture, and Mediterranean architectural dialogues. Her leadership roles include memberships in the British Academy, American Philosophical Society, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
