Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
- INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS, New York University, NY: Ph.D. 2004,
Islamic Art and Architecture
Dissertation: Power and Patronage in Mamluk Syria: The Architecture of Tankiz
al-Nasiri (1312-1340)
Advisor: Priscilla Soucek; readers: F. Barry Flood, Nasser Rabbat
- INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS, New York University, NY: M.A. 1993, History of Art
First qualifying paper: “Topos and Cosmos in a Mosaic Pavement at Umm al-Rasas/Kastron Mefaa, Jordan”
Readers: Thomas Mathews and Donald P. Hansen
Second qualifying paper: “The Madrasa of Amir Tankiz, Jerusalem” Readers: Priscilla P. Soucek and Marvin Trachtenberg
Readers: Thomas Mathews and Donald P. Hansen
Second qualifying paper: “The Madrasa of Amir Tankiz, Jerusalem” Readers: Priscilla P. Soucek and Marvin Trachtenberg
- SKIDMORE COLLEGE, Saratoga Springs, NY: B.S. 1985
Major field: Studio Art
Minor field: History of Art
UNIVERSITY TEACHING
- AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO – Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations
Associate Professor, July 2018 – present
Assistant Professor, September 2011-June 2018
Director of Graduate Study, 2021-2018
Unit Head, Islamic Art and Architecture, 2014-2015 Associate Chair, 2013-2014
- NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, New York, NY – Department of Art History
Adjunct Instructor, Fall 2001
Course taught: Art in the Islamic World
- FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, Rose Hill, NY – Department of Art and Music
Adjunct Instructor, Fall 2000 and Fall 2001
Course taught: Art and Islam
- FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (State University of New York), New York, NY – Department of Art History
Adjunct Instructor, Fall 2000
Course taught: Art and Civilization of India and Islam
MUSEUMS, COLLECTIONS & HERITAGE MANAGEMENT
- TRADIGITAL/THESAURUS ISLAMICUS FOUNDATION, Cairo, Egypt
Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya Manuscript Project
Consultant, 2017-2018
- THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York, NY
Department of Islamic Art
Research Associate, January 2009 – August 2011
Research Assistant, September 2008 - January 2009
- THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York, NY
Department of Islamic Art
Hagop Kevorkian, Intern, 1994-1995
- HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA
Fine Arts Library Visual Collection
Part-time Assistant to Cataloguer of Islamic Art, 1989-1991
- MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA
Rotch Library Visual Collection
Part-time Assistant in Aga Khan Program Archives of Islamic Architecture, 1989
- PHYLLIS KIND GALLERY, New York, NY Gallery
Assistant, 1985-1986
ARCHAEOLOGY & FIELD WORK
- Islamic Architecture in Yemen, self-funded research and site surveys Independent scholar, Spring 2004 – Spring 2007
- Northern Jordan Project, Irbid, Jordan (Grand Valley State University) Architectural Consultant, Summer 2006
- Dissertation field work in Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, and Egypt Doctoral candidate, Fall 1997 – Spring 1999
- Roman Aqaba Project, Aqaba, Jordan (North Carolina State University) Trench Supervisor, Summer 1996
AWARDS
- Scholar, Getty-sponsored workshop series Mediterranean Palimpsests: Connecting the Art and Architectural Histories of Medieval & Early Modern Cities, 2018-19
- Senior Fellow, Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, University of Bonn, 2018-19
- American University in Cairo Grants:
- Provost’s Grant, Summer 2018 (AUC-Koç University collaboration)
- Faculty Scholarship, Summer 2017
- Conference Travel Grant, Spring 2016
- Mellon Course Development Grant (collaboration), Spring 2015
- Conference Travel Grant, Fall 2015
- Conference Travel Grant, Fall 2012
- Metropolitan Museum Theodore Rousseau Memorial Travel Grant, Fall 2009
- American Friends of The Louvre Kress Curatorial Fellowship, 2005 (declined)
- American School of Oriental Research, Kress Fellowship, 1998-1999
- Albright Institute for Archaeological Research, Kress Fellowship, 1997-1998
- Council of American Overseas Research Centers, Multi-Country Fellowship, 1997-1998
- Metropolitan Museum Hagop Kevorkian Memorial Fellowship, 1994-1995 Institute of Fine Arts, Richard Ettinghausen Fellowship, 1993-1994
- Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Summer 1993
OTHER ACADEMIC HONORS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
- Board Member, Historians of Islamic Art Association and editor of H-IslamArt Listserv, January 2017 – December 2018
- Peer reviewer, Mamluk Studies Review
- Advisor for doctoral candidate at the University of Bonn (Hend el-Sayyed),
- Spring 2017 to present
- Advisor to AUC “Scholar without Stipend” Claire Panetta (CUNY Graduate Center), Spring, 2015
- Member, Advisory Board, Friends of the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, Fall 2014 – Fall 2017
- Reviewer, The American University in Cairo Press, January 2013
- Proofreader for Verena Daiber and Benoit Junod, eds., Treasures of the Aga Khan
- Museum: Masterpieces of Islamic Art, Berlin, 2010
- Consultant, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2008
- Copy-editor for Holger Hitgen, Marib: Archaeological Tourist Guide, Sana’a, 2005
- Photographer of commissioned images of Great Mosque of Sana’a, Yemen for Finbarr Barry Flood, “Image Against Nature: Spolia as Apotropaia in Byzantium and the Dar al-Islam,” Medieval History Journal 9.1 (2006): figure 3 and figure 4
- Proofreader for Mohammed Moin Sadeq, The West Bank and Gaza Strip, A Historical and Archaeological Guide, Ramallah, 1999
- Copy-editor for Michael Meinceck, Patterns of Stylistic Change in Islamic Architecture: Local Traditions Versus Migrating Artists, New York & London, 1996
