Dr. Kishwar Rizvi

Biography

Kishwar Rizvi is the Robert Lehman Professor at Yale University, specializing in the history of art and architecture, with a focus on the contemporary Middle East. Her recent publications include "Transnational Mosque: Architecture Historical Memory Contemporary Middle East" (University of North Carolina Press, 2015) and contributions to edited volumes such as "Emotion, Subjectivity Early Modern Muslim Empires" (Brill, 2017). Her notable works also encompass the "Safavid Dynastic Shrine: History, Religion Architecture Early Modern Iran" (British Institute Persian Studies, B. Tauris, 2011) and the anthology "Modernism Middle East: Architecture Politics Twentieth Century" (University of Washington Press, 2008), for which she was awarded a Graham Foundation publication grant. Professor Rizvi's extensive fieldwork spans the Middle East, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates. She is currently engaged in research on contemporary museums in the Gulf and is writing a new book on Shah Abbas and global early modernity. In her teaching, she covers Islamic art and architecture, art historical methods, and the intricate representations of kingship through a transnational lens.

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