About
Sandra is a PhD candidate in the department and focuses on gender and sexuality in the pre-modern Persianate world. Prior to joining Michigan, Sandra was an assistant curator in the Art of the Middle East department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, a position to which she has recently returned. During her time at LACMA, she contributed to several on-site and travelling exhibitions and original research on a major permanent collection acquisition of a group of medieval Spanish ceiling panels. She completed her M.A. at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, where she wrote her thesis on Antoin Sevruguin and photography in Iran in the 19th century. Sandra is the founding managing director of Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, a project dedicated to expanding the accessibility of the field of Islamic art history.
Fields of study:
- pre-modern Persianate world
- medieval Islamic world (especially Spain)
- modern Iranian art
- contemporary Middle Eastern art
