Shireen Shah is a PhD student in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. She studies the transregional material exchanges of the early Islamic caliphates, particularly at their Eastern borders. Her research...
Erik Zou studies the visual culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe. He is particularly interested in networks that connected artistic, scientific, and commercial forms of knowledge, and how these collaborations contributed to the development...
Santiago studies early modern art and visual culture in the Hispanic world with a dual focus on religious images—particularly as records and as agents in processes of conversion—and on the intersection of knowledge and art production in the sixteenth and...
Ian studies images and objects at the intersection of faith, artistic practice, and intellectual culture in northern Europe during the long seventeenth century. Drawing upon prints, illustrated books, and representations of the natural world, Ian’s work...
Madeleine Giaconia studies modernism and empire in the Soviet Union, with a particular interest in the role of visual culture in interactions between Ukraine and Uzbekistan in the early twentieth century. Her research also considers how the art of the...
Yomi Folaranmi studies the politics (and poetics) of representation and relation across the Atlantic from the 1800s. His current research takes Afro-Brazilian religious and visual culture as a point of departure to explore the cultural and artistic...
Christian Bumala studies sound and its representation in modern art, with a particular focus on the human voice. Drawing from disability studies and transhistorical approaches, his research considers the affordances of speech and song as visual objects...
Samira Bose studies the production of archives and museum collections in late twentieth-century South Asia, with a particular focus on art historical and anthropological documentation by artists.
Her interests stem from her work at Asia Art Archive in...
Diego Atehortúa studies the bridges of Latin American and Caribbean arts with Atlantic Africa from the early modern slave trade to the aftermath of slavery in the long nineteenth century.
His research interests include the Atlantic and Pacific currents of...
Irina Zhambaldorzhieva studies the history of Buddhist art, focusing on Esoteric (Tantric) iconography. She is particularly interested in the iconographic transformations that occurred as the Tantric teachings were transmitted from India and Nepal to...