Nur Efeoglu

About me:

Nur Efeoglu is a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS) at the University of Exeter and is a member of the Centre for Islamic Archaeology. She obtained her BA in Theology and Religious from the Marmara University, Istanbul in 2013 and her MA in the Middle East and Islamic Studies from the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter in 2017. She is currently a PhD researcher in Islamic Archaeology at the University of Exeter.

Her doctoral research focuses on the representation of Seljuk and Ottoman past in British museums. The research includes a comparative analysis of the collections of the three British museums, the British Museum, the V&A Museum, and the National Museums Scotland. 
Her research is supervised by Prof. Timothy Insoll and Dr. Clemence Scalbert-Yucel.

Research Unit:
Centre for Islamic Archaeology

Research Project:

Thesis Title:
The Representation of the Seljuk and Ottoman Past in British Museums: A Comparative Critical Evaluation of the Collections in the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and National Museums Scotland

The key research question of the research is: how are the Seljuks and Ottomans represented through the collections in the three museums that are being analysed. This will allow an evaluation of how this has changed over time and what is meant by the terms “Ottoman” and “Seljuk” as well as terms such as "Turkish-Islamic Art", "Turkish Art", "Turkish Islamic" based on these museum collections and how they have been curated and interpreted.

The aim of the research is to examine the three British museum collections from the perspective of Islamic art museum studies in order to contribute to the establishment of the many museums being built on the subject and to serve as a source for Islamic art museology research.
As a result, the main overarching goal of the research is to try to demonstrate the representation of the Seljuk and Ottoman past in British museums through an interdisciplinary study focusing on the three chosen museums.

Research Supervisory team:

Prof. Timothy Insoll (Al-Qasimi Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology)

Dr Clemence Scalbert-Yucel (Senior Lecturer in Ethnopolitics)

Research Wider Research Interests:

Islamic Art, Seljuk, and Ottoman art, Islamic Archaeology, Museology, Heritage Studies

Education:

January 2018 January 9999

University of Exeter

Ph.D.

Thesis title:

The Representation of the Seljuk and Ottoman Past in British Museums: A Comparative Critical Evaluation of the Collections in the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and National Museums Scotland

Supervisors:

Prof. Timothy Insoll (Al-Qasimi Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology)

Dr Clemence Scalbert-Yucel (Senior Lecturer in Ethnopolitics)

January 2016 January 2017

University of Exeter

MA

Middle East and Islamic Studies

Dissertation: Symbolism of Contemporary Mosques in Istanbul

Supervisor: Dr István Kristó-Nagy (Senior Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies)

January 2008 January 2013

Marmara University

BA

Theology and Religion