School of Arts & Department of History of Art and Archaeology

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Roles: Department of History of Art and Archaeology Nasser D Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology School of Arts Department Research & Knowledge Exchange Convenor
Department: School of Arts & Department of History of Art and Archaeology
Qualifications: BA (Princeton) MA (Columbia) PhD (Harvard)
Building: Russell Square: College Buildings
Office: 428
Email address: sr63@soas.ac.uk
Telephone number: 020 7898 4469

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I'm interested in investigating cultural boundaries between the different communities that shared the geographies and cultures of the areas that now constitute Turkey, the southern Caucasus, northern Mesopotamia, Syria, and Iran in the medieval period (11-14th cs CE). This entails a 'big tent' approach to material culture, including traditional art historical subjects, but also numismatics, epigraphy, ceramics, and other fields allied with archaeology, landscape studies, and the architecture and archaeology of travel. My research has been supported by grants from the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the Getty Foundation, the Barakat Trust, the van Berchem Foundation, the British Institute at Ankara, the British Council Cultural Preservation Fund and other organizations.

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