Rebecca Selch

Rebecca Selch

Rebecca Selch

Rebecca Selch is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Her research concerns the production and reception of drawing and painting in Safavid Iran. Her dissertation, tentatively titled “Memorializing the City: Illustrated Manuscripts of the Majālis al-ʿUshshāq and the Making of Genre in Early Modern Iran,” examines sixteenth- and seventeenth-century copies of a colorful late-Timurid hagiography. Prior to attending Harvard, she earned a B.A. in Art History and Sociology from Wellesley College (2017) and an M.A. in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art (2019).

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