Bookbinding Program, North Bennet Street School (1993-1995)
Persian Studies Major, University of Maryland College Park (2007-2011)
Graduate Persian Flagship Program, University of Maryland College Park (2011-2012)
Doctoral Dissertation, Leiden University (2019): "The Advent of Abrī: The Emergence of Paper Marbling During the Long 16th Century (ca. 1496–1616 CE)".

"The Art of Abrī: Marbled Album leaves, Drawings and Paintings of the Deccan" in Sultans of Deccan India 1500–1700: Opulence and Fantasy, edited by Navina Haidar & Marika Sardar. 157–59. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015).

Manuscripts, codicology, bookbinding, decorated papers, paper marbling, craft technologies, craft literature.

20190410_JB_CV_US_Letter_3_pg_2558de31e3ac1ce177b2c069559dce9e.pdf

Soudavar Fellow for Persian Collections, University of Manchester