Renata Holod is Professor, History of Art Department, and Curator, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania. She has carried out archeological and architectural fieldwork in Syria, Iran, Morocco, Turkey, Central Asia, Tunisia, and Ukraine. She is co-author and co-editor of The Mosque and the Modern World (1997) and An Island Through Time: Jerba Studies (2009) and The City in the Islamic World (2008). She served as Convenor, Steering Committee member, and Chair, Master Jury of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. She was elected President, Board of Trustees of The Ukrainian Museum, NYC, June 2013.

W.T. Woodfin, Y. Rassamakin and R. Holod, “Foreign Vesture and Nomadic Identity on the Black Sea Littoral in the Early Thirteenth Century: Costume from the Chungul Kurgan” Ars Orientalis, 38/2010, 155-186. “On Forts and Towns: Image, Enclosure, Control” in Margaret Graves and Benoit Junod, Eds. Architecture in Islamic Arts Treasures of the Aga Khan Museum, catalogue for exhibitions at the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, 2012, part III. Renata Holod “Event and Memory: The Freer Gallery’s Siege Scene Plate” Ars Orientalis 42/2012, 194-219. Blythe McCarthy and Renata Holod, “Under a microscope: The examination of the Freer Siege Scene Plate” ca. 21 pages, e-publication, www.asia.si.edu/research/publications.asp, a pendant study to “Event and Memory” Renata Holod and Yuri Rassamakin “Imported and Native Remedies for a Wounded Prince: Grave Goods from the Chungul Kurgan in the northern Black Sea steppe of the thirteenth century”, special volume titled Mechanisms of Cross- Cultural Encounter of Byzantium and Its Neighbors edited by Alicia Walker and Heather Grossman, Medieval Encounters 18 (2012) 339-381. Renata Holod and Olexandr Halenko “The severe landscapes of ‘Mother Sarmatia’: Steppe Ukraine in the eyes of a Polish gentleman in 1569” Harvard Ukrainian Studies 32, Festschrift for George Grabowicz (2015)

art history, architectural history, archaeology, urban studies

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