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

West Asia
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2023

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Ernst, Michael, "Visual Culture & Spaces of Nationalism and Islamic Identity in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan" (Temple University, E. Neumeier, T. Cooper)

Hussein, Dareen, "Remapping Third World Women's Cinema and Anti-Colonial Film Cultures, 1960s–1980s" (Ohio State University, E. Levin)

Jahani, Jeiran, "Animal Art: Domesticating Wild Ecologies of the First Cities" (Columbia University, Z. Bahrani)

Kite, Whitney, "The Lay of the Land: Armenian Monasteries in their Local Landscapes" (Columbia University, H. Klein, A. Shalem)

Maleki, Kimia, "Ornament Refigured: Weaving Modernity in West Asia" (Johns Hopkins University, Ü. Rüstemnver)

Selch, Rebecca, "Lovers, Assembled: Illustrated Manuscripts of Majālis al-ʿUshshāq" (Harvard University, D. Roxburgh David, G. Necipoğlu)

Sever, Hande, Pedestals of Absence: The Ephemeral Practice of Public Art in Türkiye, 1931–1989" (University of California, San Diego, J. Welchman)