Carel Bertram

Carel Bertram is Professor Emerita in Middle East and Islamic Studies in the Department of Humanities at San Francisco State University. She earned her MA in Near Eastern Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and her PhD in Islamic Art History at UCLA. Trained in the visual culture of the Ottoman and post-Ottoman era, she uses art, architecture, cities, literature, ethnography and oral histories to study how we use space and place to represent ourselves in the world; and also how it is that the memory of places creates a particular historical consciousness, especially when remembering a home lost to time or exile.