Department of History of Art and Archaeology & School of Arts

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SOAS Middle East Institute Member SOAS-Alphawood Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art Module Co-convenor: Arts of the Islamic World, Asia's Art Histories, Curating Asian Art SOAS-Alphawood Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art Module convenor: Analysing and Exploring the Arts, Independent Study Project in Asian Art History
Department
Department of History of Art and Archaeology & School of Arts
Qualifications
PhD History of Art – Courtauld Institute of Art (2015-2020) | Funded by AHRC/CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Office
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Email address
nm89@soas.ac.uk
Thesis title
‘Lions and Sons: the masculine image in Qajar Iran (1789 – 1925)’ Courtauld Institute of Art, 2020, Supervised by Professor Sussan Babaie and Dr Satish Padiyar

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Dr Natasha Morris is a Lecturer in Islamic Arts and a convenor of the Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art at SOAS. 

She was previously Myojin-Nadar Project Curator Middle East Art at the British Museum, and co-authored Reflections: art of the Middle East and North Africa (British Museum, 2020) and Honar: The Afkhami Collection of Modern and Contemporary Iranian Art (Phaidon, 2017). 

She has written extensively on the art of the Middle East for publications including The Oxford Art Journal, The Art Bulletin, Time Out, and The Guardian as well as authoring several exhibition catalogues. 

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  • Morris, Natasha. 2024. “‘Haptic Games’: The Display of Qajar Playing Cards in the British Museum.” Museum History Journal 17 (2): 186–206. doi:10.1080/19369816.2024.2440341 
  • N. Morris and S. Sooud Al-Qassemi (eds.), Hudood: rethinking boundaries (Kaph Books, 2024) 
  • V. Porter, C. Tripp and N. Morris, Reflections: Contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa (British Museum Company, 2020) 
  • S Babaie, V, Porter, N. Morris, Honar: The Afkhami Collection of Modern and Contemporary Iranian Art (Phaidon, 2017) 

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  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Masculinity
  • Iran
  • The Male Body
  • 19th Century
  • Material Culture
  • Modern and Contemporary Art from the MENA region
  • Display practices, curation, and exhibitonary contexts

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nm89@soas.ac.uk

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