Dr Ozan Hüseyin is a British legal, socio-political, and art historian specialising in the late Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. He has joined the British Institute at Ankara and Bilkent University as a joint Postdoctoral Fellow in 2026–27, following a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at ANAMED, Koç University, in 2025–26. His research currently examines Ottoman responses to the looting, neglect, and international competition over antiquities through legal reforms, museum practices, intellectual discourse in the Ottoman and international press, and visual evidence drawn from photographs and paintings.
Dr Hüseyin received his PhD in History of Art and Archaeology from SOAS, University of London, where he also completed two MA degrees in History of Art and Archaeology (Distinction) and Near and Middle Eastern Studies (Distinction). His interdisciplinary expertise is further informed by a BA in Socio-Legal Studies and Criminology (First Class Honours) from the University of Westminster.
Alongside teaching museum and museology courses at SOAS, Dr Hüseyin has experience across the auction, gallery, and museum sectors, including at Bonhams, the Amir Mohtashemi Gallery, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Fields of Expertise: Museology, collecting, provenance and the art market; antiquities laws, looting, and preservation; Ottoman and Western European history and imperial relations; arts and architecture of the Eastern Mediterranean; historical and contemporary socio-politics of Britain, Cyprus, Turkey, the Balkans and the Middle East; historical and contemporary cross-cultural exchange, mobility and migration.