Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Islamic Art
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2019

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Cho, Hyunjin, "Illustrated Manuscripts of Firdausi's Shahnama in Nineteenth-Century Iran" (Boston University, E. Fetvacı)

Clemens, Olivia, "Forming 'Islamic Art' in the United States: Collecting and Exhibiting in the American Context, c. 1880-1940" (Columbia University, A. Shalem)

Gillman, Matthew, "Medieval Glass and the Aesthetics of Simulation" (Columbia University, A. Shalem)

Harrington, Lydia, “Children, Education, and Labor in Late Ottoman Arab Schools” (Boston University, E. Fetvaci)

MacMurdie, Meekyung, “Geometric medicine: aniconism and Arab painting” (University of Chicago, P. Berlekamp)

Terndrup, Alison, "The Portrait Campaign of Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II (r. 1808-1839)" (Boston University, E. Fetvaci)