The Catholic University of America

Dr. Örgü Dalgíç 

Byzantine mosaic, an interest of Dr. Orgu Dalgic, Dumbarton Oaks and The Catholic University of America  

Örgü Dalgíç (email) is a post-doctoral teaching fellow in Byzantine Studies (2009-2012), with a joint appointment between Dumbarton Oaks and The Catholic University of America.  She received her PhD in Art History and Archaeology at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, in 2008.  She is the recipient of fellowships from Koç University (2005-06), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2006-07), and Dumbarton Oaks (2007-08).  At CUA, she teaches courses on the art and architecture of the Byzantine, Islamic and western European worlds in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.  She is currently working on a book on the floor mosaics of Constantinople.  She is also part of the Aphrodisias Regional Survey Project.

courses taught and upcoming

Spring 2012

  • ART 335, Western Medieval Art and Architecture 

Sample past courses

  • ART 301, Splendors of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Empire, 330-1453
  • ART 335, Western Medieval Art and Architecture
  • ART 341, Islamic Art and Architecture
  • CLAS 390/ART 390: A World Filled with Gods: Pagan, Jewish, Christian and Muslim Art in Late Antiquity

 

Selected recent Publications

  • Late Antique Floor Mosaics in Constantinople (monograph in preparation).
  • "The Corpus of Late Antique Floor Mosaics of Constantinople," in Monographien des Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (forthcoming).
  • "A New Interpretation of the Church of Peribleptos and its Place in Middle Byzantine Architecture," with Thomas F. Mathews, in Proceedings of the International Sevgi Gönül Memorial Symposium on Byzantine Studies (Istanbul, 2007, in press).
  • "The Pre-Constantinian Mosaic Floors in Istanbul," in J. D. Alchermes, H. C. Evans, T. K. Thomas, eds., Anathemata Eortika: Studies in Honor of Thomas F. Mathews (Mainz, Philipp von Zabern, 2009).