Nevra Necipoğlu

Nevra Necipoğlu is a Turkish historian of the Byzantine Empire who is a professor of history at Boğaziçi University.

Early life and education She was educated and graduated from Robert College. She then graduated from Wellesley College with a double major in History and Economics in 1982. She received her Ph.D. in Byzantine History from Harvard University in 1990. She is the sister of Gülru Necipoğlu, who is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University.

Career She has taught at Boğaziçi University since 1990 and is the founding director of its Byzantine Studies Research Center, which was established in 2015. She has taught courses on Classical History and Civilization, Islamic History and Civilization, Byzantine Constantinople, the Crusades, pre-Ottoman Turkish history, as well as Byzantine History and Historiography.

She has published Byzantium between the Ottomans and the Latins: Politics and Society in the Late Empire (2009) and edited Byzantine Constantinople: Monuments, Topography and Everyday Life, (with Ayla Ödekan and Engin Akyürek) The Byzantine Court: Source of Power and Culture, and (with Paul Magdalino)Trade in the Byzantine World

Languages Necipoğlu's native language is Turkish and she is fluent in English. She also can do research in French, German, Ancient & Byzantine Greek, Latin, Ottoman Turkish and Italian. She also has palaeographic skills in Byzantine Greek, Ottoman Turkish, Medieval Latin and Italian. Byzantine Studies Research Center Inauguration at Boğaziçi University, November 24, 2015