Mary Ausplund Tooze Endowed Visiting Professor of Islamic + Ancient Art

Amanda Luyster
College of the Holy Cross

Public Lecture
"Strange Gothic: Christian Bodies, Islamic Silks"

Student Outreach
Luyster offered a workshop about bringing art history research to public-facing museum experiences.

Lynn Ramey
Professor of French, Director of the Center for Digital Humanities at Vanderbilt University

Public Lecture
"Demons and Pygmies: Determining humanness from the ancients to today"

Student Outreach
Ramey offered a workshop on history-based storytelling using Twine, an open-source interactive narrative tool.

Claire Dillon
PhD Candidate, Columbia University

Public Lecture
"Lost in Translation: Misread Arabic and other misadventures in the modern histories of Medieval silk"

Student Outreach
Dillon led a seminar discussion about her recent scholarship, "Making the Medieval Modern: The Past & Future of the Cathedral of Mogadishu."

Kelsey Eldridge
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Puget Sound

Public Lecture
"The Royal Stone: Porphyry in Ancient Rome and Beyond"

Student Outreach
Elridge led a workshop about graduate school in art history and related disciplines.

Mariachiara Gasparini
Assistant Professor, University of Oregon

Public Lecture
"Unraveling the Threads: Exploring the Significance of Central Asian Textiles in Medieval Islamic & Byzantine Art."

Student Outreach
Seminar discussing her book Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural & Interactions through Central Asian Textile Images.

Marian Feldman
Collins Vickers Chair in Archaeology, Professor of Art History & Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Public Lecture
“The Material Charisma of Akkadian Kingship: Bodies and Fabric in Early Mesopotamian Art.”

Student Outreach
Feldman led a discussion of her essay, "Style as a Fragment of the Ancient World..."

David Roxburgh
Department Chair and Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History at Harvard University

Public Lecture
“Ethics & Aesthetics in Baysunghur’s Books: Art & Literature in 15th-Century Herat.”

Student Outreach
Roxburgh taught a mini-course on Timurid Art & Architecture: The City of Herat in the 15th Century.