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Staci Scheiwiller

Ph.D.

Academic Profile

Education:

University of California, Santa Barbara
Ph.D., History of Art, 2009
Dissertation: “Mirrors of Memory: Nineteenth-Century Imagery in Contemporary Iranian
Photography”
Committee: Robert Williams, John Foran, Laurie Monahan, and Miriam Wattles
Concentrations: Modern and Contemporary Iran, History of Photography, Contemporary and Modern Art and Theory, Gender, and Postcolonialism; Minor in Islamic Art

University of California, Riverside
M.A., History of Art, 2001
Thesis: “Revisiting American Atrocities in Photography and Film: Other and Difference in the Vietnam
War Legacy of the United States”
Committee: Amelia Jones, Jonathan Green, and Katherine Kinney
Concentrations: the United States, Contemporary Art, Photography, Visual Culture, and Film; Constructions of Race, Gender, and Nation in Art

University of Southern California
B.A., Art History, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1999
Concentrations: Gender in Contemporary and Italian Renaissance Art, Postcolonialism, Islam, and the Middle East

Sample Publications

Liminalities of Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Iranian Photography: Desirous Bodies (New York: Routledge, 2017) Co-Editor with Markus Ritter, The Indigenous Lens: Early Photography in the Near and Middle East (De Gruyter, 2017)

Current Position

Associate Professor, California State University, Stanislaus