Raziye Çiğdem Önal

Raziye Çiğdem Önal is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Art History, Division of Turkish-Islamic Arts, Faculty of Letters, Karadeniz Technical University. She completed her undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral studies at Atatürk University. Her academic research focuses on civil and religious architecture, urban history and architecture, cultural memory, and Turkish decorative arts. She is currently the principal investigator of the TÜBİTAK-funded project Ottoman and Early Republican Period Tombstones in the Districts of Trabzon, which aims to document and analyse tombstones, considered significant cultural assets, from an art historical perspective.

CV updated on 2025-09-15.