Emily Neumeier is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (History of Art Department) and a B.A. in art history from Boston College.  Before coming to Temple, Neumeier taught at the Ohio State University as a postdoctoral fellow and was a collaborator in the Max Planck Research Group "Objects in the Contact Zone: The Cross-Cultural Lives of Things" at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence. 

In her research, Neumeier studies the visual and spatial cultures of the eastern Mediterranean, with a focus on the Ottoman Empire. Her first book, to be published with Penn State University Press, presents an alternative history of Ottoman architectural patronage from the borderlands of empire in Greece and Albania during the age of revolutions period. Archival and field research for this project has been supported by the Getty Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Research Institute in Turkey.

As an AKPIA fellow, Neumeier will be pursuing a new research project about practices of architectural restoration in Ottoman and Republican-era Istanbul. She has already begun investigating this topic in an essay that appears in her co-edited volume Hagia Sophia in the Long Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2024).