PATRICIA BLESSING Curriculum vitae

Department of Art & Archaeology Email: [email protected] Princeton University Website: https://scholar.princeton.edu/pblessing 105 McCormick Hall Princeton, NJ 08544 ______

EDUCATION

PhD, Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 2012.

MA, Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 2009. Fields: Islamic; western medieval; Byzantine

Otto-Friedrich Universität, Bamberg, Germany, 2003-2006. Major: History and Archaeology; Minors: Arabic, Western Art History

Demi-licence, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland, 2003. Majors: Art History, Near Eastern Studies. Minor: Comparative Literature

EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, since July 2020.

Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Pomona College, 2017-20.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Pomona College, 2016-17.

H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellow, Society of Architectural Historians, 2015-16.

International & Scholarship Program Officer, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, 2012-15.

Lecturer, Stanford University, 2012-14.

PUBLICATIONS

Book Rebuilding after the Mongol Conquest: in the Lands of Rūm, 1240-1330, Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies 17 (Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishers, 2014, e-book edition 2016). Translated into Turkish as Moğol Fethinden Sonra Anadolu’nun Yeniden İnşası: Rum Diyarında İslami Mimari, 1240-1330 (Istanbul: Koç University Press, 2018).

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Edited volumes Architectural Models, Mobility, and Building Techniques: Modes of Transfer in Medieval Anatolia, Byzantium, and the Caucasus, special issue Funūn – Transcultural Perspectives, fall 2014.

Patricia Blessing and Rachel Goshgarian (eds) Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100- 1500 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, paperback 2018).

Draping the Middle Ages, guest-edited issue of The Textile Museum Journal 45 (2018).

Peer-reviewed journal articles

“Blue-and-White Tiles of the Muradiye in : Architectural Decoration between Tabriz, Damascus, and Cairo,” Muqarnas 36 (2019): 101-129.

“Weaving on the Wall: Architecture and Textiles in the Monastery of Las Huelgas in Burgos,” Studies in Iconography 40 (2019): 137-182.

“Draping, Wrapping, Hanging: Transposing Textile Materiality in the Middle Ages,” introduction for Draping the Middle Ages, The Textile Museum Journal 45 (2018): 2-18.

“Architecture, Scale, and Empire: Monuments in Anatolia between Mamluk and Ilkhanid Aspirations,” Вопросы всеобщей истории архитектуры [Questions of the History of World Architecture, Moscow] 11, no. 2 (December, 2018): 114-131.

“Presenting Islamic Art: Reflections on Old and New Museum Displays,” Review of Middle East Studies 52, no. 1 (Spring, 2018): 147-152.

“Seljuk Past and Timurid Present: Tile Decoration of the Yeşil Complex in , Turkey,” Gesta 56, no. 2 (Fall, 2017): 225-250.

“Medieval Monuments from Empire to Nation-State: Beyond Armenian and Islamic Architecture in the South Caucasus (1180-1300),” The Medieval South Caucasus: Artistic Cultures of Albania, Armenia, and Georgia, ed. Ivan Foletti and Erik Thunø, Convivium: Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean, Seminarium Kondakovianum (Supplementum 2016): 52-69.

“Buildings of Commemoration in Medieval Anatolia: The Funerary Complexes of Ṣāḥib ‘Aṭā Fakhr al- Dīn ‘Alī and Māhperī Khātūn,” al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean 27, no. 3 (December, 2015): 225-252.

“Friedrich Sarre and the Discovery of Seljuk Anatolia,” Journal of Art Historiography 11 (December, 2014): 1-20.

“Women Patrons in Medieval Anatolia and a Discussion of Māhbarī Khātūn’s Complex in Kayseri,” Belleten (Türk Tarih Kurumu) LXXVIII, no. 282 (August, 2014): 475-526 (plus plates).

“Recording the Transformation of Urban Landscapes in Turkey: The Diaries of and Ernst Diez,” Studies in Travel Writing 16, no. 4 (October, 2012): 415-425.

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“The Vessel as Garden: The ‘Alhambra Vases’ and Sensory Perception in Nasrid Architecture,” in: Sensory Reflections: Traces of Experience in Medieval Artifacts, ed. Fiona Griffiths and Kathryn Starkey (: De Gruyter, 2018), 116-141.

“All Quiet on the Eastern Frontier? Early and its Contemporaries in Eastern Anatolia,” in Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500, ed. Patricia Blessing and Rachel Goshgarian (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 200-223.

Patricia Blessing and Rachel Goshgarian, “Introduction: Space and Place - Applications to Medieval Anatolia,” in Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500, 1-24.

Maria Cristina Carile and Patricia Blessing, “Architectural Illusions and Architectural Representations: Space in the Salerno Ivories,” in The Salerno Ivories: Objects, Histories, Contexts, ed. Antony Cutler et al. (Berlin: Reimer Verlag-Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2016), 111-124.

“From the Survey of Persian Art to the CIA: Donald N. Wilber and Ilkhanid Architecture in ,” in Historiography of Persian Architecture, ed. Mohammad Gharipour (New York and London: Routledge, 2016), 112-146.

Maria Cristina Carile and Patricia Blessing, “Architetture e città mediterranee negli avori di Salerno,” in: Gli avori medievali di Amalfi e Salerno, ed. Francesca Dell'Acqua et al. Quaderni del Centro di Cultura e Storia Amalfitana 8 – Opere e Territorio: Vademecum (Amalfi: Centro di Cultura e Storia Amalfitana, 2015), 117-128.

“Allegiance, Praise, and Space: Monumental Inscriptions in Thirteenth-century Anatolia as Architectural Guides,” in Calligraphy and Architecture in the Muslim World, ed. Mohammad Gharipour and İrvin Cemil Schick (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013), 431-446.

Encyclopedia entries

“Ka‘ba, II: Visual Arts,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, ed. Hans-Josef Klauck et al., vol. 14 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017), 1163-1164.

“Holy Family (Christian), IV: Visual Arts, Islamic,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, ed. Hans-Josef Klauck et al., vol. 12 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016), doi: 10.1515/ebr.holyfamilychristian.

“Holy Family (Islamic), II: Visual Arts,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, ed. Hans-Josef Klauck et al., vol. 12 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016), doi: 10.1515/ebr.holyfamilyislamic.

Mohammad Gharipour and Patricia Blessing, “Mausoleums of the Islamic World,” Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, third edition, ed. Helaine Selin (Berlin and New York: Springer, 2015), doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-3934-5_10227-1.

“Grabar, Oleg,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, ed. Hans-Josef Klauck et al. vol. 10 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015), doi: 10.1515/ebr.grabaroleg.

“Elijah, Visual Arts, ,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, ed. Hans-Josef Klauck et al., vol. 7 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013): 709-711.

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Articles and book chapters without peer-review

“Inscribed Identities: Some Monumental Inscriptions in Eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus,” in: The Seljuqs and their Successors: Art, Culture and History, ed. Sheila Canby, Martina Rugiadi, and Deniz Beyazit (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020), 129-143.

“Building a Frontier: Architecture in Anatolia under Ilkhanid Rule,” in Cultural Encounters in Anatolia in the Medieval Period: The Ilkhanids in Anatolia, symposium proceedings, 21-22 May 2015, , ed. Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu and Suzan Yalman (Ankara: VEKAM, 2020), 65-85.

“Silk Road without Fabrics: Ani at the Crossroads of Trade and Textile Motives in Architecture,” in: Ani at the Crossroads, ed. Zaza Shkirtladze (Tbilisi: Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Press, 2019), 229-254.

“Urban Space Beyond the Walls: Siting Islamic Funerary Complexes in ,” Tomb - Memory - Space: Concepts of Representation in Premodern Christian and Islamic Art, ed. Francine Giese, Anna Pawlak, and Markus Thome (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018), 23-41.

“Brilliant Color in Brick and Stone: Tile Decoration as a Visual Device in Medieval Anatolia,” in Light Color Line - Perceiving the Mediterranean: Conflicting Narratives and Ritual Dynamics, ed. Thomas Dittelbach and Agnes Sebestyén (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2016), 23-30.

“Puttenköpfe – Löwentatzen: ein skulptierter Kamin aus Nürnberg,” Kulturgut – aus der Forschung des Germanischen Nationalmuseums 9.2 (2006): 10-12.

“Marcellus Coffermans: La Vierge au raisin,” and “d’après Jan Gossaert, dit Mabuse: Vierge au voile,” in La naissance des genres - La peinture des anciens Pays-Bas (avant 1620) au Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève, ed. Frédéric Elsig (Geneva and Paris: Somogy, 2005), cats. no. 5 and 6.

H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship Reports, Society of Architectural Historians Blog Links to all posts are available at: http://www.sah.org/publications-and-research/fellowship-reports/brooks-fellow-reports

“Back to the Balkans (and then the States): Final Report,” 28 June 2016.

“(Un)Holy Land: Israel and Palestine,” 13 June 2016.

“Frontiers in Armenia: Hellenistic, Late Antique, Medieval, and Islamic Art (History) in the Caucasus,” 17 May 2016.

“Spanish Itineraries, Part 2: Madrid, Toledo, Zaragoza,” 21 April 2016.

“Byzantium in Istanbul, or: Istanbul is Constantinople (among other things),” 28 March 2016.

“Creating an Ottoman Capital: Istanbul in the Late Fifteenth Century,” 26 February 2016.

“Istanbul: Sultans’ and Urban Expansion,” 25 January 2016.

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“Morocco: Reflections on Remembering Andalusia and the Absence of Ottomans,” 24 November 2015.

“Spanish Itineraries, Part 1: From Barcelona to Ronda,” 29 October 2015.

“ ‘Other’ Romanesques and Gothics: Medieval Architecture in Croatia, Bari, and Venice,” 28 September 2015.

“Monuments of Balkan Empires: Ottoman and Habsburg Architecture in Zagreb, Sarajevo and Mostar,” 27 August 2015.

“Byzantium on the Adriatic: From Ravenna to Poreč,” 4 August 2015.

Book and exhibition reviews

Review of: Gülru Necipoğlu, ed., The Arts of Ornamental Geometry: A Persian Compendium on Similar and Complementary Interlocking Figures, Fī tadākhul al-ashkāl al-mutashābiha aw al- mutawāfiqa (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. Persan 169, fols. 180r-199r), a volume commemorating Alpay Özdural, Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2017, Iranian Studies 52 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1080/00210862.2019.1675133.

Review of: Olga Bush, Reframing the Alhambra: Architecture, Poetry, Textiles and Court Ceremonial (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018), The Art Bulletin 100, no. 4 (December, 2018): 106-108.

Review of: David G. Alexander, with Stuart W. Phyrr and Will Kwiatkowski, Islamic Arms and Armor in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New Haven: Yale University Press for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015), Speculum 93.4 (October, 2018): 1151-52.

Review of: Outcasts: Prejudice and Persecution in the Middle Ages, Getty Center, 30 January to 8 April 2018, caareviews, 27 August 2018, http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/3438#.W4WAx47zA_X, accessed 28 August 2018.

Review of: Philippe Gelez and Gilles Grivaud, eds., Les conversions à l’islam en Asie Mineure, dans les Balkans et dans le monde musulman, École française d’Athènes, Mondes méditerranéens et balkaniques 7 (Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2016), The Medieval Review, 24 December 2017.

Review of: Nicolas Trépanier, Foodways & Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia: A New Social History (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2014), Speculum 92.4 (October, 2017): 1261-63.

Review of: Christina Maranci, The Vigilant Powers: Three Churches of Early Medieval Armenia (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), The Medieval Review, 26 August 2016, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/22482/28386 (accessed 26 August 2016).

Review of: Aptin Khanbaghi, Cities as Built and Lived Environments: Scholarship from Muslim Contexts, 1875 to 2011 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University in Association with The Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, 2014), Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 79, no. 1 (February, 2016): 186-188.

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Review of: Zeynep İnankur, Reina Lewis, and Mary Roberts, eds., The Poetics and Politics of Place: Ottoman Istanbul and British Orientalism (Istanbul: Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation, 2011, distributed in the U.S. by University of Washington Press), International Journal of Turkish Studies 20 (Fall, 2014): 115-118.

“A review of Building the Sultanate of Rum: Memory, Urbanism, and Mysticism in the Architectural Patronage of ‘Ala al-Din Kayqubad (r. 1220-1237), by Suzan Yalman,” Dissertation Reviews, http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/7948, accessed 7 April 2014.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, and AWARDs

Alliance to Advance Liberal Arts Colleges (AALAC) funding for workshop “Creating the Global: Islamic and Asian Art History at Liberal Arts Colleges,” 2019-20.

Collectively with the editorial team of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture: Mohamed Makiya Prize (Middle Eastern Architectural Personality of the Year), awarded by Tamayouz Excellence Awards, Baghdad, Iraq, 2019.

Gerda Henkel Foundation Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, fall semester 2017.

Barakat Trust Grant for research in Turkey, Bosnia, and Greece, 2015-16.

International Center of Medieval Art and Samuel H. Kress Foundation Research Award, 2013-14.

Travel funding for Byzantine Studies Conference, International Center of Medieval Art, 2012.

Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellowship, Princeton University, 2011-12.

Visiting Scholar, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford University, 2011-12.

Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Fellowship in the History of Art, 2010-11.

Funding for Dissertation Research, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 2010-11.

Exchange Scholar, Harvard University, Princeton University Graduate School Fellowship, spring 2010.

Stanley J. Seeger Fellowship, Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, summer 2008.

Princeton University Graduate School Fellowship, 2006-10.

Erasmus/Socrates Exchange Student Fellowship, European Union and Swiss Government, 2003-04.

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INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUPS

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) Project Zwischen Präsenz und Evokation. Fingierte Materialien und Techniken im frühen und hohen Mittelalter [Between Presence and Evocation: Fictitious Materials and Techniques in the Early and Late Middle Ages], directed by Dr. Britta Dümpelmann, Freie Universität Berlin, 2017-20.

Crossing Frontiers: Christians and Muslims and their Art in Eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus, Getty Connecting Art Histories, directed by Prof. Antony Eastmond, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2016-18.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Princeton University (faculty member) • The Arts of the Islamic World (lecture course, Fall 2020)

Pomona College • Introduction to the History of Art: Prehistory to c.1400 (lecture course, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2019) • The Medieval Mediterranean (lecture course, Fall 2016) • Islamic Art Survey (lecture course, Spring 2017, Spring 2019) • Archaeology: Fact and Fiction (first-year seminar, Fall 2018, Fall 2019) • Cairo and Istanbul: Urban Space, Memory, Protest (seminar, Fall 2016, Spring 2018, Spring 2020) • The Crusades: A Cross-Cultural History (seminar, Spring 2017, Spring 2019) • Islamic Painting: Landscape, Body, Power (seminar, Spring 2017) • Sensory Spaces, Tactile Objects: The Senses in Art and Architecture (seminar, Spring 2020) • New Technologies in Art History (independent study, Fall 2019) • The Arts of Palestine, 19th century to the present (group independent study, Spring 2020)

University of Zurich, Switzerland • Frontiers in Motion: Anatolia between Byzantium, Islam, and the Mongol Empire (graduate seminar, Spring 2016)

Stanford University • Cairo and Istanbul: Urban Space, Memory, Protest (seminar, Fall 2014) • The Arts of Medieval Spain, co-taught with Bissera V. Pentcheva and Beatrice E. Kitzinger (seminar with field-trip to Spain, Winter 2014) • Cairo – Architecture and Urbanism from the Middle Ages to the Present (seminar, Winter 2013) • Islamic Painting: Landscape, Body, Power (seminar, Spring 2013) • The Crusades: A Cultural History (seminar, Fall 2012; Spring 2014)

University of California, Davis • Islamic Art Survey (lecture course, Summer 2012)

Princeton University (graduate teaching assisitant) • Teaching assistant for lecture course “Introduction to the History of Art: Renaissance to Contemporary,” taught by Christopher P. Heuer (Spring 2008) • Teaching assistant for lecture course “Painting and Book Illumination of the Islamic World,” taught by Mika Natif (Fall 2006) Curriculum vitae, June 2020 8 Patricia Blessing

EDITORIAL WORK

Associate Editor, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, since July 2017.

Assistant Editor, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, 2013-17.

In-house editor for International Journal of Islamic Architecture 8.2 (July, 2019), special issue on “Boundaries, Flows, and the Construction of Muslim Selves through Architecture,” edited by Farhan Karim.

In-house editor for International Journal of Islamic Architecture 5.2 (July, 2016), special issue on “Heritage and the Arab Spring,” edited by Heghnar Watenpaugh.

In-house editor for International Journal of Islamic Architecture 3.2 (July, 2014) special issue on “Islamic Architecture on the Move,” edited by Christiane J. Gruber. Reprinted as Christiane J. Gruber, ed., Islamic Architecture on the Move: Motion and Modernity (Bristol: Intellect, 2016).

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE

Excavation of the Byzantine monastery of Satyros in Küçükyalı, Istanbul, Turkey Director: Alessandra Ricci, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey in collaboration with Istanbul Archaeological Museum (August 2008)

Excavation of a sixth-century fortress near Samarqand, Uzbekistan Director: Simone Mantellini, University of Bologna, Italy (June 2007)

Excavation of an Umayyad estate, Balis-Meskene, Syria Direction: Thomas Leisten (then Princeton University) and Syrian Directorate of Antiquities (June 2006 and June-July 2005)

MUSEUM EXPERIENCE

Internship, Collection of German drawings, Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt, Germany (February 2005)

Internship, Textile Collection, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, Germany (August 2004)

Internship, Collection of Sculpture (pre-1800), Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Germany (February-March 2004)

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ORGANIZED CONFERENCE PANELS AND CONFERENCES

Workshop “Creating the Global: Islamic and Asian Art History at Liberal Arts Colleges,” funded by American Association of Liberal Arts Colleges, Pomona College, Claremont, CA 27-29 February 2020. co-organized with Heather Ferguson (Claremont McKenna College), Western Ottomanists’ Workshop, The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA, 5-6 April 2019. co-chaired with Elizabeth Dospel Williams (Dumbarton Oaks), “Then and Now: Medieval Border Crossings and the Contemporary Moment,” Historians of Islamic Art Association Biennial Symposium, Yale University, 24-26 October 2018. co-chaired with Beatrice E. Kitzinger (Princeton University), “Art and Aftermath,” 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 10-13 May 2018, sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA).

“Woven Spaces: Building with Textile in Islamic Architecture,” College Art Association 106th Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 21-24 February 2018.

“Draping the Middle Ages: Moveable Textile Patterns in East and West, c. 500-1500,” College Art Association 104th Annual Conference, Washington, DC, 3-6 February 2016. co-chaired with Ali Yaycıoğlu (Stanford University), “Imagining Death and the Afterlife in the Middle East (c. 500-1700,” Middle East Studies Association 2014 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 22- 25 November 2014.

“Frontier Architectures in Late Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1450,” Society of Architectural Historians 67th Annual Conference, Austin, TX, 9-13 April 2014.

“Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in the Medieval Mediterranean,” Byzantine Studies Conference, Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA, 1-4 November 2012; sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA).

LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

Invited Lectures and Presentations

“Stone, Paper, Tile: The Material Politics of Ottoman Architecture in the 15th Century,” Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, 18 March 2020. Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic.

“Creating Spaces: Unity for Art History,” How I Made This, Research Studio, Digital Humanities at the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA, 27 February 2020.

“Stone, Paper, Tile: The Material Politics of Ottoman Architecture in the 15th Century,” Near Eastern Languages and Civilization Department, University of Washington, Seattle, 30 May 2019.

“Building Spaces for the Dead: The Muradiye Complex in Bursa and Early Ottoman Funerary Practices,” Eurasian Empires workshop, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, 30 October 2017. Curriculum vitae, June 2020 10 Patricia Blessing

“The Muradiye Mosque in Edirne, Blue-and-White Tiles, and an Aesthetic Shift in Fifteenth-century Ottoman Architecture,” Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften der Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany, 25 October 2017.

“Weaving on the Wall: Evoking Textiles in Monumental Decoration in Medieval Spain,” work in progress workshop, Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 15 February 2017.

“Inscribed Identities: Monumental Inscriptions in Eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus,” symposium accompanying the exhibition Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 9-11 June 2016.

“Anatolia and Iberia: Medieval Frontiers in Perspective,” Department of Art History, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, 7 April 2016.

“Frontiers in Motion: Cross-cultural Exchange and Architecture in Anatolia and Iberia, 1200-1400,” The Khalili Research Center, The University of Oxford, 30 November 2015.

“Islamic Art and Architecture,” Structured Liberal Education, residential program for freshmen, Stanford University, 15 January 2015.

“Art and Architecture during the Golden Age of Islam,” Baghdad in Its Golden Age, Humanities West, San Francisco, CA, 26 April 2014.

“Enshrining Commemoration in Medieval Anatolia: The Cases of Mahperi Khatun and Sahib Ata,” workshop Theoretical Perspectives on the Middle Ages, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, 26 February 2014.

“Building a Frontier: Islamic Architecture, Mongol Rule and Local Patronage in Medieval Anatolia,” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 3 October 2013.

“Architecture, Space, and the Body in Medieval Anatolia,” Medieval Art Workshop, University of California, Davis, 8 March 2013.

“Islamic Art: An Introduction,” Docent Training for Special Exhibition The Jameel Prize: Art Inspired by Islamic Tradition, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, 17 December 2012.

Response to “Moscow’s 16th-century Illuminated Chronicle as Graphic Novel,” presented by Nancy S. Kollmann, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford University, 4 October 2012.

“Allegiance, Property, and Space: Monumental Inscriptions in thirteenth-century Anatolia,” Islamic Studies Workshop Series, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford University, 24 May 2012.

“Erzurum between Seljuks, Mongols, and Armenians: Two Architectural Case Studies (13th and 14th century CE),” workshop Memory and Place, In and Out of Turkey, University of California, Davis, 13 January 2012.

“Seljuk, Ilkhanid or . . . Medieval in Central and Eastern Anatolia,” Program in Medieval Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 10 December 2009.

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Conference Papers

“Fragments of Paradise: Ottomann Wall-paintings in the 15th Century,” conference Fragments, Art, and Meaning in the Middle Ages, Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 6 November 2021.

“Paper as Language: Design and Multilingualism in Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Architecture,” Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 26-28 March 2020. Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic.

“Silk Road without Fabrics: Ani at the Crossroads of Trade and Textile Motives in Architecture,” conference Ani at the Crossroads, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, 17-18 November 2017.

“Restored or Rebuilt: Medieval Islamic Architecture in Turkey,” panel Historic Preservation in the Middle East: Mapping the Region, Society of Architectural Historians 2016 Annual Meeting, Pasadena, CA, 6-9 April 2016.

“Urban Space Beyond the Walls: Siting Islamic Funerary Complexes in Konya,” conference Medieval Tombs and their Spatial Contexts: Strategies of Commemoration in Christianity and Islam, University of Tübingen, Germany, 18-20 February 2016.

“Friedrich Sarre and the Discovery of Seljuk Architecture in Anatolia,” conference in connection with exhibition Wie die islamische Kunst nach Berlin kam: Der Sammler und Museumsdirektor Friedrich Sarre, Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, Germany, 23 October 2015.

“Building a Frontier: Architecture in Anatolia under Ilkhanid Rule,” conference Ilkhanids in Anatolia, Vehbi Koç ve Ankara Araştırmaları Merkezi (Vekam), Ankara, Turkey, 21-22 May 2015.

“Weaving on the Wall: Evoking Textiles in the Mural Decorations of Medieval Spain,” College Art Association 103rd Annual Conference, New York, 11-14 February 2015.

“Turquoise and Gold, White and Blue: The Tile Decoration of the Yeşil Complex in Bursa, Turkey between Anatolia and East Asia,” The Western Ottomanists’ Workshop, University of California, Davis, 31 January 2015.

“Medieval Monuments - Restored, Renovated, Reconstructed: Turkey as a Case Study for Problems in Architectural History,” First Stanford Primary Source Symposium, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford University, 13-15 November 2014.

“Bursa seen from the East: Early Ottoman Architecture and its Eastern Context,” 10. Kolloquium der Ernst-Herzfeld-Gesellschaft zur Erforschung der islamischen Kunst und Archäologie, Hamburg, Germany, 3-6 July 2014.

“All Quiet on the Eastern Frontier? Early Ottoman Architecture and its Contemporaries in Eastern Anatolia,” conference Imagining Ottoman Topologies: Spatial Experience in an Early Modern Empire, Stanford University, 16-17 May 2014.

“Style and Power in Medieval Anatolia: Three Thirteenth-century Madrasas in Sivas,” Middle East Studies Association 2013 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 10-13 October 2013.

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“Brilliant Color in Brick and Stone: Tile Decoration as Visual Device in Medieval Anatolia,” 5th International Conference of Mediterranean Worlds: Light Colour Line – Perceiving the Mediterranean: Conflicting Narratives and Ritual Dynamics, University of Bern, Switzerland, 9- 11 September 2013.

“Connected Land, Entangled Space: Medieval Anatolia and the Mongol Empire,” conference Connected Worlds: New Approaches across Pre-Modern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 24-26 January 2013.

“Approaching the Sacred, Guided by Text: Spatial Practice and Calligraphy in Medieval Islamic Architecture,” 38th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA, 1-4 November 2012.

“Frontier Identity and Shifting Style: Islamic Architecture in Thirteenth-century Anatolia,” 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 10 May 2012.

“Reevaluating ‘Seljuk’ Style in Late 13th -Century Anatolia,” conference Zwischen islamischer und christlicher Kunst: Transfer und Vergleich – Forum für Nachwuchswissenschaftler, Freie Universität Berlin, 26 June 2010.

“Monumental Structure versus Intricate Detail – On Size and Scale in Medieval Islamic Architecture,” 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 16 May 2010.

“Continuity in Syria after the Arab Conquest – The monastery of Saint Simeon the Stylite (Qal’at Sim’an) near Aleppo,” 34th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, 17 October 2008.

Media Appearances “Moğol Fethinden Sonra Anadolu’nun Yeniden İnşası: Rum Diyarında İslami Mimari, 1240-1330,” interview with Ozan Sağsöz and Cengiz Özdemir, Kültür & Tarih Sohbetleri (173), MedyascopeTV, 18 May 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rAZ4p8GRzY, [in Turkish].

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THESIS ADVISING

Claremont Colleges Xuan Ariane Lo, Pomona College, Class of 2020, BA Art History, “Drawing the Eye: Capturing the Surface Layer of the French Bourgeoisie in Bertall's La Comédie de notre temps, 1873-1875,” first reader. Winner of the Moseley Senior Thesis Prize in Art History.

Noor Dhingra, Pomona College, Class of 2020, BA History, “Panoramic City: Reconstructing Late Mughal Delhi,” second reader.

Milena Carothers, Scripps College, Class of 2019, BA with Honors, Art History and Art Conservation, “Ancient Cypriot Glass: Production, Reception, and the Collections at the Claremont Colleges,” first reader.

Josephine Ren, Scripps College, Class of 2019, BA Art Conservation, “Islamic Ceramics, Indelible Creations: Cataloging and Conserving the Scripps Collection,” first reader.

Lauren Churchwell, Pitzer College, Class of 2018, BA Art History, “Carving Out Connections: Synthesized Iconographies in Phoenician Ivories from the 9th-8th Century BCE,” second reader.

External Reader Anahit Galstyan, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, MA Comparative History, 2018, “Armeno-Muslim Cultural Interactions in Twelfth- and early Thirteenth-Century Anatolia: Kümbets and the Cross-Cultural Transmission of Architectural Knowledge,” third reader. (Currently PhD student, University of California, Santa Barbara).

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Princeton University (as faculty member) • Executive Committee, Program in Archaeology, 2020-21.

Claremont Colleges • Search committee, Director of Benton Art Museum, Pomona College, summer-fall 2019. • Steering committee, Middle Eastern Studies Program, Pomona College, 2018-19. • Academic Procedures Committee, Pomona College, 2018-19. • Search committee, Art History – Photography, Film, or New Media, Scripps College, 2018-19.

Stanford University • Selection committee, Geballe Research Workshops, Stanford Humanities Center, 2014-15. • Pre-Major Advisor for freshmen and sophomores, 2013-15. • Leader of Dissertation Writing Group for PhD students, Stanford Humanities Center, 2013-15. • Webmaster for Ottoman and Turkish Studies at Stanford, 2013-15. • Co-leader for alumni trip to Istanbul, Stanford Alumni Association, June 2014.

Princeton University (as graduate student) • Alumni Interviewer for undergraduate admissions, Alumni Schools Committee, 2016-17. • Graduate Student Library Representative, Department of Art and Archaeology, 2007-08. • Graduate Student Representative, Department of Art and Archaeology, 2006-07.

Curriculum vitae, June 2020 14 Patricia Blessing

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Member of advisory board, “A Never-ending Dialogue: The Cultures of the Medieval Sub-Caucasian Region. Between Historiography and Material Reality (500–1300),” project directed by Ivan Foletti (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) and Michele Bacci (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), since february 2020.

Member of editorial board, Вопросы всеобщей истории архитектуры [Questions of the History of World Architecture, Moscow], since 2017.

Treasurer, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 2018-21.

Program committee, Middle East Studies Association of North America, 2020 Annual Meeting

Submission review committee, Middle East Studies Association of North America, 2019 Annual Meeting

Desk reviewer of nomination to World Heritage List: “Historic Guild Town of Mudurnu: Testimonies of Akhism (Turkey),” for ICOMOS, fall 2018.

Fellowship selection committee, American Research Institute in Turkey, 2018-19 (for 2019-20 awards).

Selection committee, H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship, Society of Architectural Historians, 2016.

LANGUAGES

Native fluency: German Near-native fluency: Turkish, French, English Advanced skills: Arabic (Classical, Modern Standard, Egyptian dialect), Italian, Russian Advanced reading, beginning speaking: Spanish Working knowledge: Persian, Latin, Ottoman Turkish

CURRENT MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

College Art Association Historians of Islamic Art Association International Center of Medieval Art Middle East Studies Association of North America Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association Society of Architectural Historians Vereinigung der Kunsthistorikerinnen und Kunsthistoriker in der Schweiz

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