Selected Publications

Focusing on a single Qurʾan manuscript produced in twelfth-century Hamadan, Iran, this essay presents digital techniques I explored in a collaborative seminar taught by Renata Holod and Yael Rice. The manuscript also provides an opportunity to reflect on methodological gaps and blindspots within the emerging sub-field of digital art history, and new ways of thinking about individual and collective style.
In The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, ed. Elias Muhanna (Boston: De Gruyter), 2016
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Recent Publications

. The City of Panjikent and Sogdian Town-Planning. In The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Roads, 2019.

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. Temporal Network Analysis with R. In The Programming Historian, 2018.

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. Quantifying the Qurʾan. In The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, ed. Elias Muhanna (Boston: De Gruyter), 2016.

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Recent & Upcoming Talks

Khalid’s Dream: Hunting and Conquest at Qusayr ʿAmra
Feb 15, 2019 1:00 PM
Historians of Islamic Art Association Majlis
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Mapping Visual Memory: Networks of Artistic Contact in French Gothic Manuscripts
Jul 3, 2018 11:15 AM
International Medieval Congress
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Projects

Digital Art History

Exploring digital approaches to art historical questions.

Umayyad Art

Situating Umayyad Art in the broader context of Early Medieval visual culture.

Teaching

My teaching is shaped by my research on paradigms of visuality and processes of visual adaptation and transculturation. I have a keen interest in digital methods of researching and presenting art historical subjects, and I teach approaches like network analysis and 3-D reconstruction to recover some of the social and spatial contexts that shaped the production and reception of works of art. To ground students in object-based inquiry, I incorporate visits to local museums and collections.

Classes I have taught include:

  • ARTH 347 | Beyond Iconoclasm: Seeing the Sacred in Islamic Visual Cultures
  • ARTH 229 | Islamic Arts of the Book
  • ARTH 222/MAS 222 | Network Analysis for Art History
  • ARTH 227 | Art in the Age of Crusades: Visual Cultures of the Mediterranean 1000-1400
  • ARTH 247 | Introduction to Islamic Art and Architecture
  • ARTH 100 | The Power of Images: Art and its Histories