Filiz E. Burhan *79

Filiz Burhan, associate professor of art history at The American University of Paris (AUP), died May 23, 2011, of cancer. She was 67.

Burhan received a bachelor’s degree from Bryn Mawr in 1972. From Princeton she received a Ph.D. in art and archaeology in 1979. Before joining AUP in 1984, she lived in Africa and taught in Senegal at the University of Dakar and at the School of Architecture, also in Dakar. While in that country, she also worked for NASA.

She was on the faculty of AUP’s art history and fine arts department for 27 years. The chair of that department, Professor Christine Baltay wrote that “She [Burham] was a brilliant and challenging teacher. . . . She was demanding of herself and a staunch supporter of academic excellence and integrity.”

While at AUP, Burhan also served on the expert jury of the Fulbright Commission, taught at the Parsons School of Design in Paris, and regularly lectured at the Smith-
sonian Program in Paris.

Her research focused on late-19th-century art and theory. Among her writings were 80 entries in Master Drawings from the Louvre and National Museums in Paris-Volumne IV (1997).

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