Dr. Onur Öztürk
Onur Öztürk is an Assistant Professor of Art History in the Art and Art History Department at Columbia College Chicago. He received an M.Arch. degree in History of Architecture from the Middle East Technical University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Öztürk's research focuses on the art and architecture of ancient and medieval Asia Minor, modern Turkey. His dissertation provided an in-depth study of the cults of divine rulers and urban transformation in Roman Asia. His current project focuses on the funerary monuments of the female elite in Kayseri. He is the primary editor of the recently published book Deconstructing the Myths of Islamic Art (co-editors Xenia Gazi and Sam Bowker, Routledge, 2022). A selection of his digital maps and architectural illustrations can be viewed in Penelope Davies' publication Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2017). His teaching and scholarship aim to reveal our intertwined histories while tackling Eurocentric and linear narratives of art history.
