People: Faculty and Advisors
The following list is featured as a service to graduate students who wish to locate faculty advisors who have done research in the field of Arab, Iranian, and/or Turkish visual arts. To request addition to this list, please email your information to info@amcainternational.com
Additions to this list should include faculty position; department; department web address, if applicable; Ph.D. dissertation topic and year of submission; and areas of expertise and interest. Please note in your submission if you wish to have your email address posted on this list or not.
Nasser Rabbat, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture Massachusetts Institute of Technology
nasser@mit.edu
Leila Abu-Lughod, Ph.D.
Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science
Columbia University
La310@columbia.edu
Shiva Balaghi, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities, Cogut Center for Humanities, Brown University
Areas of Expertise and Interest: Gender studies and cultural studies of the modern Middle East.
Hamid Dabashi, Ph.D.
Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mealac/faculty/dabashi/
http://www.hamiddabashi.com/biography.html
Talinn Grigor, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Modern & Contemporary Architecture
Brandeis University
eamil: tgrigor@brandeis.edu
Website: http://www.brandeis.edu/facguide/person.html?emplid=0965d82320d75c6de68adf935fb82b69e2413421
Salah Hassan, Ph.D.
Professor & Director of the Africana Studies and Research Center
Professor of African and African Diaspora Art History and Visual Culture
Department of History of Art and Visual Culture
Cornell University
http://www.asrc.cornell.edu/salah.html
Pamela Karimi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Art History, UMASS-Dartmouth
Dissertation: "Transitions in Domestic Architecture and Home Culture in Twentieth-Century Iran."
pamelak@mit.edu
Adila Laïdi-Hanieh
Lecturer
Philosophy & Cultural Studies/Fine Arts Program
Bir Zeit University
http://www.alaidi.blogspot.com
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, PhD.
Assistant Professor, Civilization Sequence Program
American University of Beirut
sm78@aub.edu.lb
Ph.D. dissertation Topic: “Interrelation of modern Arabic literature and visual art”. (University of Oxford, 2005)
Areas of Expertise and Interest: Modern Arabic literature and visual culture, especially in Lebanon and Iraq. Currently working on artists’ books as an alternative vision of our recent history.
http://wwwlb.aub.edu.lb/~webcsp/Mejcher-Atassi.htm
Salwa Mikdadi
Department of Museum Studies
JFK University, Berkeley
smikdadi@jfku.edu
Areas of Interest: Gender and politics in art, art by Arab Americans, Palestinian artists, museums and visitors, art interpretation, and Arab art institutions and support systems in art production.
Silvia Naef, Ph.D.
Professor
Arabic Studies Unit
University of Geneva.
2007/8 and 2008/9, visiting professor, University of Toronto, teaching modern visual arts of the Middle East.
http://www.unige.ch/lettres/meslo/arabe/enseignants/naef.html
Katarzyna Pieprzak, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of French
French and Comparative Literature
Williams College
Ph.D. diss. topic: “Which Way to the Modern Art Museum? Cultural Discourse on Art and Modernity in Post-Colonial Morocco”. (U. of Michigan, 2001).
Areas of Expertise and Interest: Modernity and the Postcolonial African and Islamic world, Francophone African and Caribbean literature, Museums and the Narration of Culture, Visual Arts in North Africa, Literature from the French Banlieue
www.williams.edu/CFLang/faculty/pieprzak.html
Khaled Ramadan, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Department of Art History
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Areas of Expertise and Interest: Curator, video documentary maker and a lecturer in new media aesthetics. His fields of specialties are visual culture aesthetics, multi-media studies and the history of cross culture visual art and culture.
http://www.chamber.dk/
http://www.chamberarchive.com/archive.html
Kishwar Rizvi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
History of Art Department, Yale University.
http://arthistory.yale.edu/faculty/faculty/faculty_rizvi.html
Sarah Rogers, Ph.D.
Foundation, Smithsonian Museum of American Art
sarrog@yahoo.com
Dissertation Topic: "Postwar Art and the Historial Roots of Beirut's Cosmopolitanism."
Kirsten Scheid, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
American University of Beirut
Areas of Expertise and Interest: Contemporary Lebanese art, aesthetics, identity, modernism, gender studied through art works.
Nada Shabout, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
College of Visual Arts & Design, University of North Texas
Ph.D. diss. topic: “Modern Arab art and the metamorphosis of the Arabic letter”. (U. of Texas at Arlington, 1999).
Areas of Expertise and Interest: Arab and Islamic visual culture, contemporary Iraqi art, Cultural destruction and preservation, identity politics and art, Post-colonial and Feminist theory,aesthetics, modernism, Orientalism and globalization.
http://www.art.unt.edu/info/facultyt.cfm#
Tina Sherwell, Ph.D.
Director
International Academy of Art Palestine
Ph.D. diss. Topic: “Imaging the Homeland; Representations of Palestine in Palestinian Art and Popular Culture”. (U. of Kent at Canterbury, 2000)
Jessica Winegar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Temple University
winegar@temple.edu
Areas of Expertise and Interest: visual and material culture, the culture industries, nationalism, neoliberalism, social class, gender, value, and the Middle East.