Deniz Türker is a historian of Islamic art and architecture specializing in late Ottoman visual and material culture. Her research explores how modern forms of sovereignty and identity were fashioned through representational technologies, architectural practices, and landscape interventions. Her first monograph, The Accidental Palace (Penn State University Press, 2023), traces the transformation of Yıldız, the last Ottoman imperial palace in Istanbul, between the 1790s and 1910s, examining how photography, prefabrication, and artificial landscapes became instruments of imperial self-fashioning while foregrounding the contributions of women and non-courtly actors to Ottoman architectural culture. Emerging from this research are two interlinked co-authored volumes with A. Hilâl Uğurlu—Letters and Gifts in the Harems of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul and Architecture and Interiors of the Harems in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Her current project investigates shifting conceptions of Anatolia during the transition from empire to republic through archaeology, museums, ethnography, photography, and state-sponsored artistic production. She co-curated the 2018 exhibition Ottoman Arcadia: The Hamidian Expedition to the Land of Tribal Roots and a 2023 exhibition on Greek and Ottoman embroideries from the Fitzwilliam Museum collection. She also maintains an active interest in the history of Islamic art collecting in Ottoman and Egyptian contexts. Prior to joining Rutgers University, she held positions at University of Cambridge and received support from Dumbarton Oaks, ANAMED, and the Leverhulme Trust.