Yasmine Yakuppur

Yasmine is a second-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, specializing in the arts of the lands of Islam. Her work focuses on portable objects from Southwest Asia and North Africa, mainly ceramics, their use, ornamentation, and collection. In her research, Yasmine employs methods of historiography, post-colonialism, and visual culture studies. Yasmine is currently working as the Research Assistant for Professor Avinoam Shalem, and a translator in Professor Zainab Bahrani’s project Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments.

Yasmine earned a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in Art History and Psychology in 2019 and completed a Master of Arts in the History of Art and Architecture of the Islamic Middle East at SOAS, University of London in 2022 with distinction. Her graduate thesis explored the relationship between the perception of the Turk and of Iznik ceramic dining vessels in England between 1550 and 1700. Yasmine received a Provost Diversity Fellowship in the 2022-23 academic year, and a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship in the Summer of 2023.