Asli Menevse PhD ’21 is Assistant Professor, Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas at
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
Her primary area of investigation is the intersection of politics and aesthetics in the public space, with a double emphasis on official monuments and radical ephemera. Asli came to the discipline of Art History from an interdisciplinary background, earning her B.A. in Political Sciences and Sociology, and an MA in History with a concentration on nineteenth-century Ottoman print culture. She then entered visual studies at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, where she received her second MA in Art History.
Her interdisciplinary background informs her methodology, drawing from political theory, history, philosophy, and the intersections of visual art with literature and politics. Her work received funding from several institutions, including a Swann Fellowship from the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and a Mellon Graduate Fellowship from Cornell’s Society for the Humanities.
Asli has presented her research both at interdisciplinary and art history conferences and symposia. Her next project builds on her dissertation’s theoretical and methodological groundwork to examine the state-led monumental projects in Turkey in the past decade (2011-2021).
