Mira Xenia Schwerda (PhD, 2020, Harvard University) is a historian of modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art, specifically print and photography. She is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Art History at Carleton College. Her book manuscript-in-progress, tentatively titled "Between Art and Propaganda: Photographing Revolution in Modern Iran (1905–1911)", focuses on the art and visual culture of Iran’s Constitutional Revolution.
Translation and cross-cultural contact play a key role in her work, she has published her academic work in both English and Persian, and is the co-editor of the journal "Art in Translation". Dr. Schwerda has worked at the Harvard Art Museums, where she curated the photography section of the exhibition "Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran" and is the co-founder of the "Virtual Islamic Art History Seminar Series". She has taught courses in the history of photography, global modern art history, Islamic art history, and South Asian art history at the University of Edinburgh.
She is a founding member and the managing director of "Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online," a free and open-access online platform of digital resources dedicated to the study of Islamic art, architecture, and visual culture and affiliated with the University of Michigan, where she is also a research affiliate in the History of Art department.
Contact info: schwerda@umich.edu
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Translation and cross-cultural contact play a key role in her work, she has published her academic work in both English and Persian, and is the co-editor of the journal "Art in Translation". Dr. Schwerda has worked at the Harvard Art Museums, where she curated the photography section of the exhibition "Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran" and is the co-founder of the "Virtual Islamic Art History Seminar Series". She has taught courses in the history of photography, global modern art history, Islamic art history, and South Asian art history at the University of Edinburgh.
She is a founding member and the managing director of "Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online," a free and open-access online platform of digital resources dedicated to the study of Islamic art, architecture, and visual culture and affiliated with the University of Michigan, where she is also a research affiliate in the History of Art department.
Contact info: schwerda@umich.edu
Supervisors: --
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March 27th, 2019. Orient-Institut, Istanbul.
Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington D.C.
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Iran’s Constitutional Revolution of 1906 and the Narratives of the Enlightenment
March 27th, 2019. Orient-Institut, Istanbul.
Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington D.C.
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Iran’s Constitutional Revolution of 1906 and the Narratives of the Enlightenment