Asli Kinsizer

Ph.D., Art Education, 2025

Assistant Professor of Art Education
University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas

As an educator from Turkey pursuing her academic career in the U.S., Kinsizer completed her research and proposal titled “Deconstructing the Orientalist Male Gaze Fantasy of Harem, Hammam and Odalisque through Feminist Intersectionality and Visual Analysis.” Kinsizer focuses on the conceptual framework of Orientalist depictions of Ottoman females in the Harem or Hammam, the development of geographical segregation into the Orientalist paradigm and the formation of stereotypes in visual culture and the arts. 

Even today, representations of Turkish women's position and identity remain problematic under the Eurocentric and Eastern patriarchal paradigms. As a practicing artist, Kinsizer has an ongoing exhibition series titled Strong Women, with which she aims to encourage youth to express their unique voices through art by showcasing various historically significant female heroes.