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Appointed 2005, Program in Art History
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Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
B.A. (summa cum laude), University of California, Los Angeles
A.A., Beirut University College
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Research interests
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Early modern and modern Islamic Art and Architecural History,
urban history, theory of architectural preservation, and architecture
and gender
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Recent courses |
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Islamic Art
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Gender, Space, Architecture
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The Islamic City |
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Books
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The Image of an Ottoman City: Imperial Architecture and Urban
Experience in Aleppo in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
(Leiden: Brill, 2004) Winner of the 2006 Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians.
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Articles and essays
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“An Uneasy Historiography: The Legacy of Ottoman Architecture in the Former Arab Provinces,” Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, vol. 24 (2007), special issue: Historiography and Ideology: Architectural Heritage of the “Lands of Rum,”.edited by Gülru Necipoglu and Sibel Bozdogan |
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“Deviant Dervishes: Space, Gender and the Construction of
Antinomian Piety in Ottoman Aleppo.” International Journal
of Middle East Studies 37:4 (November 2005)
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“A French Humanist in the Islamic City: The Chevalier d’Arvieux
(1635-1702), Merchant and Consul in Aleppo,” Thresholds:
The Critical Journal of Visual Culture 27 (2004): 18-22
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“Museums and the Construction of National History in Syria
and Lebanon,” in Nadine Méouchy and Peter Sluglett,
editors, The British and French Mandates in Comparative Perspective
(Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2004). 185-202
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“Sources and Methods for Studying Women and and Islamic
Cultures in the Disciplinary Field of Art and Architecture,”
The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Suad Joseph,
general editor (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2003). Vol. 1. 315-320 and
4 Plates
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“Writing the Imaginary Orient: Maurice Barrès’
Journey to the Levant,” History and Archaeology in Lebanon
12 (Autumn 2000): 94-95
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“Configuring the Empire: Urbanism, Architecture and Mercantile
Space in Ottoman Aleppo,” in Center 18: Research Report
1997-98 (Washington,
D.C.: Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, 1998). 183-186
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“Urban Planning, Architecture and Social Reality in Seventeenth-Century
New Julfa,” Asbarez Weekly, December 28, 1991. 10-11,
26.
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Recent Fellowships
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Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians, awarded to The Image of an Ottoman City, 2006.
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Aga Khan Career Development Professorship, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001-2005. |
| J. Paul Getty Post-doctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities, 2004-2005. |
| National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Grant, 2004. |
| President's Faculty Research Award in the Humanities, Rice University, 2000-2001. |
| Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, 1996-98. |
Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship for Syria and Turkey, U.S. Department of Education, 1996-97. |
| Social Science Research Council Dissertation Research Fellowship, Syria and Turkey, 1995-96. |
