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.

Talinn Grigor
Assistant Professor of Modern & Contemporary Architecture
Brandeis University

Website: http://www.brandeis.edu/facguide/person.html?emplid=0965d82320d75c6de68adf935fb82b69e2413421

Pamela Karimi

Assistant Professor, Art History, UMASS-Dartmouth
Dissertation: "Transitions in Domestic Architecture and Home Culture in Twentieth-Century Iran."
pamelak@mit.edu

Kishwar Rizvi
Assistant Professor,
History of Art Department, Yale University.

http://arthistory.yale.edu/faculty/faculty/faculty_rizvi.html

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

Shiva Balaghi, Ph.D.
Consultant on international education at New York 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

Adila Laïdi-Hanieh
Lecturer
Philosophy & Cultural Studies/Fine Arts Program
Bir Zeit University

http://www.alaidi.blogspot.com

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

Silvia Naef, Ph.D.
Professor
Arabic Studies Unit
zUniversity 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

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.

ks28@aub.edu.lb.

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)

http://www.artacademy.ps/

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.

http://www.temple.edu/anthro/faculty.htm#winegar

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.

Sarah Rogers, Ph.D
Elanor Tufts Fellow, Dept. of Art History
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
sarrog@yahoo.com

Dissertation Topic: "Postwar Art and the Historial Roots of Beirut's Cosmopolitanism."