Ethel Sara Wolper is an Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of New Hampshire, where she teaches courses on Islamic Art, Cities in Crisis, and Sufism. She earned her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Islamic Art from the University of California in Los Angeles. Wolper is the author of Cities and Saints: Sufism and the Transformation of Urban Space in Medieval Anatolia (Penn State University Press, 2003), and an editor with Daphna Ephrat and Paulo Pinto of Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes: Emplacements of Spiritual Power across Time and Space (Brill, 2021) She has published articles in Muqarnas, Mesegios, Muslim World, and Medieval Encounters. She has contributed chapters and entries to The Art Museum (Phaidon, 2010), Women in Islamic Culture, and the Readers Guide to Gay and Lesbian Studies. Wolper's current research focuses on relics and the politics of heritage conservation in destroyed cities of the Islamic world. She is the Principal investigator on the shrines from Mosul website: (www.rememberingmosul.org).