Expertise

Research interests: medieval Islamic art and architecture; nineteenth-century art and craft in the Islamic world; plastic arts, materiality and histories of making; orientalism, historiography and the master-narrative(s) of Islamic art


Areas: Medieval Islamic visual culture; 19th-century Islamic arts; image of architecture in paintings, sculpture, and applied arts; orientalism, historiography and the master-narrative(s) of Islamic art.


Research areas: Medieval art and architecture of the Islamic world, Nineteenth- and twentieth-century craft in the Middle East and North Africa, Faking and forgery, Orientalism and the historiography of Islamic art history.

Communities
Middle Eastern Studies, Arts, International Studies
Degrees
PhD, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, History of Art, 2010
MS, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, History of Art, 2005
MA, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, Fine Art, 2002