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M.A., Art History, Alzahra University. Tehran, Iran
M.A., Near and Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS University of London
B.A., Fashion and textile design, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
Ancient Iran Art and Archaeology, Persian mythology and literature, Zoroastrianism, Islamic Art art and Archaeology, Museum Studies.
Advisor: Matthew Canepa
B.A., Art History, University of California, Los Angeles
The History of Photography in Iran, The reception of Ancient Iran during 19th and 20th Century, Iran.
Advisor: Alka Patel
Co-advisor: Matthew Canepa
My research focuses on the Achaemenid Empire, particularly its cross-cultural interactions with subjugated peoples and the development of imperial ideology as reflected in art and architecture. I am especially interested in the cultural and political dynamics between the Achaemenid Empire and ancient Greek societies, with a regional emphasis on Anatolia and the broader Near East. More broadly, my work explores imperial mentality, governance strategies, legitimation narratives, and processes of acculturation within ancient empires.
Advisor: Matthew Canepa
M.A., History, Presidency University, Kolkata, India
B.A., Ancient Indian and World History, Culture and Archaeology, Sanskrit College, University of Calcutta, India
Ancient South Asian History, South and Central Asian Archaeology, Ancient Political Thought, History of Ideas, Global Intellectual History, History of Modern South and Central Asia, History of Archaeology and History of Museum Studies.
Dissertation: "Political Narratives and Archaeological Investigations: A Global History of Afghan Archaeology in Modern Afghanistan, 1833–1979"
Advisor: Matthew Canepa
M.A., Art History, University of Oregon
B.F.A., Sequential Art, Savannah College of Art and Design
B.A., Japanese/Asian Studies, Purdue University
Spaces of Play; Japanese Design-of-Environment; Modern Architecture; Japanese Art/Material Culture/Visual Culture; Video game and Play Studies; Contemporary Reception of Art Historical ideas and forms (i.e. Semiotics, Kitsch, Reproductions and Digital/Virtual Re-presentations).
Advisor: Bert Winther-Tamaki
M.A., Comparative Studies (Art History emphasis), Brigham Young University
B.A., Interdisciplinary Humanities, Brigham Young University
Modern and contemporary Latin American art history, the Jewish diaspora in Latin America, cross-cultural interactions between 20th-century Brazil and Germany, postcolonial and decolonial theory, migration.
M.A. Art History, California State University, Long Beach
B.A. English Literature, Sonoma State University
MA Thesis: "Florentine Statecraft: Sensuality, Emotion, and Violence in the Patronage of Cosimo I De’ Medici"
Early modern Queer studies & visual culture, Italian & Mediterranean art, self-fashioning & gender performance via portraiture, renaissance green space, cross cultural contact between Italy and the Islamic world, manuscripts & devotional texts.
Advisor: Lyle Massey
M.A., Art History, University of Georgia
B.A. (with distinction), Art History and Classical Archaeology, UNC Chapel Hill
Cross cultural interactions between Persian and Greco-Roman empires, Animals in Antiquity, Roman mosaics, Roman North Africa, Animals in the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires.
Advisor: Matthew Canepa
M.A. (Summa cum laude), History, Preservation and Enhancement of the Artistic and Archaeological Heritage and Landscape, University of Bologna, Ravenna, Italy
B.A. (Summa cum laude), Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Ravenna, Italy
Achaemenid Art and Archaeology, Hellenistic Art and Archaeology, Museum Studies, Communication of the Cultural Heritage.
Advisor: Mathew Canepa
M.A., Art Theory, Hongik University, Korea
B.A., German Language and Literature, Art History and Theory, Arts and Cultural Management, Hongik University, Korea
Korean art, modern and contemporary art, digital art, new media theory, computational and generative art, post-colonialism studies, science and technology studies, media art preservation.
Advisor: Gabrielle Jung
M.S., Critical, Curatorial, Conceptual, Columbia University, New York
B.A., Architecture, University of San Diego, California
Contemporary art, materiality, and embodiment.
Advisor: Bridget Cooks
B.A., Art History (Honors), French, Studio Art, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Guy Debord and spectacle, modern and contemporary art history, Marxist theory, and traces of transhistorical encounters (alternate constructions of time and history) that artworks produce.
Advisor: Tyrus Miller
M.A., Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
B.A., Visual Art, Brown University
Contemporary art, ecology, ecocriticism, history of science and technology, alternative agriculture, phenomenology.
Dissertation: "Reconfiguring Nature, Technology, and Sense: Pierre Huyghe's Situated Artworks"
Website: https://thisismy.website/
Advisor: James Nisbet
MA, Humanities (Art History), University of Chicago
BFA, Painting, Rhode Island School of Design
Theories of avant-garde, postwar Japanese art, art of the Zen boom, art historiography
Advisor: Tyrus Miller
M.A., Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
B.A., Classics and Art History & B.S. in Chemistry, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Byzantine studies, subaltern studies, water, infrastructure, premodern Mediterranean, Rome, Constantinople, geology, urban archaeology, material culture, Greek and Syriac paleography, classical and postclassical reception.
Dissertation: "Palimpsestuous Urbanism: Infrastruucture and the Watery Underwriting of Late Antique Rome"
Advisor: Matthew Canepa
M.S. in Art Conservation, Institute of Fine Arts NYU, M.A., Art History, University of Chicago
BA/ BS University of Georgia
Textiles, medieval production techniques, scientific analysis, art conservation, medieval Persian literature, and Islamic and South Asian art and architecture.
Dissertation: "Entangled Materialities: Medieval Textiles in Central Asia, Iran, and India (9th to 13th Centuries C.E.)”
Advisors: Alka Patel and Matthew Canepa
B.A. Art History and Visual Culture, Bard College
Late-medieval and Early Renaissance visual culture in France and Italy; Christian monasticism and self-fashioning; Devotional images; Humoral theory; Monastic architecture and gardens; Monastic rule.
Advisor: Lyle Massey
B.A., Anthropology, Grinnell College
Modern architecture in Mexico and the United States; the influence of pre-Columbian monumental architecture and Indigenous vernacular building practices on modern and contemporary architecture; the intersections between the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and architecture; functionalism.
Advisor: Abigail Lapin Dardashti
M.A., Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
B.A., Art Practice and Cognitive Science, University of California, Berkeley
Digital media, biopolitics, cultural studies, feminist and queer theory, science and technology studies, critical race theory, social and environmental justice.
Advisor: Aaron Trammell
M.A., Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
B.A., Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Modern and contemporary Latin American and Latina/o/x art; postcolonial theory; displacement ; and the intersection of art, science, and technology.
Advisor: Abigail Lapin Dardashti
M.A., Art History, University of California, Davis
B.A., Art History, Critical Theory, Macalester College, MN
Modern and contemporary Chinese art, Asian American art, performance and affect, abstraction and Illegibility.
Advisor: Roberta Wue