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Academic Profile
Art historian, philosopher, linguist, man about town.
Sample Publications
The Adventures of Shah Esmāʿil: A Seventeenth-Century Persian Popular Romance (Leiden: Brill, 2018).
“Architectural Inscriptions in Early Safavid Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum.” Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal 53 (2018): 25–45.
“The Battle of Chālderān: Official History and Popular Memory.” Iranian Studies 50 (2016): 79–105.
Scholarly Interests
History of art and architecture; epic literature and history; popular tales and cultural memory; manuscript painting and text-image relations; philosophical aesthetics; Persian grammar.
Current Position
Assistant Professor of Humanities,
Dixie State University
