Yasmine Yakuppur

Yasmine Yakuppur is a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, specializing in the arts of the lands of Islam. Her research focuses on portable objects from regions formerly ruled by the Ottoman Empire, mainly ceramic dining wares, their making and migration, use and collection. In her research, Yasmine employs methods of historiography, post-colonialism, and visual culture studies. She has recently presented her work at the conferences “Voices of Emerging Scholars” at the Columbia Global Center in Istanbul and “Iran and China: Common Heritage and Contemporary Relations” at the University of Groningen. 

Yasmine currently works as a Research Assistant for Professor Avinoam Shalem and is a GSAS Teaching Fellow at Columbia. She received a Provost Diversity Fellowship in 2022 and a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship in 2023. She holds a BA from Columbia University in Art History and Psychology and an MA in the History of Art and Architecture of the Islamic Middle East from SOAS, University of London. Her MA thesis explored the relationship between the perception of the Turk and Iznik ceramic dining vessels in England between 1550 and 1700.