Hande Sever

Hande Sever is a Ph.D. candidate in the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego, working with Dr. John C. Welchman. Her interest in CARTA emerges from her research on recently excavated archaeological sites in Anatolia, such as Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe, and the impact of their discovery and excavation on artistic production both locally and globally. Her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in Oxford Art Journal, Getty Research Journal, Public Art Dialogue, Stedelijk Studies, MARCH: A Journal of Art and Strategy, and the edited collection Perspectives on In/stability (Art Institute of Chicago, 2022), as well as the exhibition catalogue A Discourse through Time: The Photographs of Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2026). She was a 2023–2024 Annette Merle-Smith Fellow at CARTA and is currently a 2025–2026 Visiting Scholar at the University of Southern California’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research.