• Assistant Professor of Art History, Macalester College

Serdar Yalcin is a specialist in the art and archeology of ancient Western Asia and the Mediterranean world with a special focus on the Bronze and Iron Age cultures of Mesopotamia, Syria and Anatolia. His research interests include art and identity, gender and representation, artistic interconnections in the ancient world, and western antiquarianism and the formation of the European and American antiquities collections. Prior to Macalester, Dr. Yalcin taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in ancient and western art history, and museum studies at Columbia University and Parsons School of Design in New York. He has been awarded fellowships and awards from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Morgan Library and Museum, Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, and the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations of Koç University in Istanbul. His recent book, Selves Engraved on Stone: Seals and Identity in the Ancient Near East, ca. 1415-1050 BCE (Brill, 2022), explores the ways in which different but often intersecting aspects of identity, such as religion, gender, community and profession, were constructed through the material, visual, and textual characteristics of seals from Mesopotamia and Syria.

While his research concentrates on visual and material cultures of ancient Western Asia, Dr. Yalcin covers a broader territory in his teaching, offering courses on the arts of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, medieval Europe and Islamic lands. In addition to his teaching and research, Dr. Yalcin is also an active member of the Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments and Tarsus-Gözlükule Excavation Projects.

• –present Assistant Professor of Art History, Macalester College

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