Rebecca Wrightson completed her B.A. in Art History at the University of Rhode Island and received her M.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh, where she studied the Arts of the Global Middle Ages. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in Islamic Art and Architecture from the Khalili Research Centre at the University of Oxford under the supervision of the I.M. Pei Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Alain George. Her thesis is titled, “Legibility, Visual Ambiguity, and the Patterning of Arabic Script: Epigraphic Ceramics of the Early Islamic World”. Rebecca’s work continues to focus on the epigraphic ceramics of the early Islamic period, including the aestheticization of Arabic script, the socio-economic implications of ceramics as an artistic medium, and the transmission of epigraphic traditions and ceramic technologies. Her most recent position was as the Kluger Postdoctoral Fellow in Fine Arts at Trinity College in Hartford, where she taught Islamic and medieval art courses. She has taught a similar array of art history courses at the University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College, and Curry College. In addition to her academic career, Rebecca also worked as the collections manager of the former John Woodman Higgins Armory in Worcester and assistant registrar at the Worcester Art Museum.