Gwendolyn is a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University's joint program for History of Art and Architecture and Middle Eastern Studies. She specializes in Ottoman painting and social history. Her dissertation analyzes costume albums produced by Ottoman bazaar artists and their translations into European turquerie across media. She also is the Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard’s Fine Arts Library. She curated the physical and online exhibition, “A Burlesque Artist in Cairo: Miss Kitty Lord and Her Egyptian Tours, 1908-1912.”