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Wendy M. K. Shaw
Wendy M. K. Shaw (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1999) is Professor of the Art History of Islamic Cultures at the Freie Universität Berlin. She is the author of Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire (University of California Press, 2003) and Ottoman Painting: Reflections of Western Art from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic (I.B. Tauris, 2012). Her articles explore the intersection between modernity, colonialism, postcoloniality, philosophy and art in the Islamic world through museums, art historiography, archaeology, religion, film, photography and contemporary artistic production. They feature a regional emphasis on the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey, and comparative perspectives with other regions of the global south and those with legacies of Islamic hegemony.