Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture
Program in Art History
School of Architecture
Gender and Women’s Studies
Medieval Studies Program
Education
University of Pennsylvania, History of Art, M.A., PhD
Harvard University , Visual and Environmental Studies, A.B
Biography
See Biography and Publications pdf .
Courses Taught
| LA 212 |
Water and Society
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| LA 222 |
Islamic Gardens and Architecture |
| LA 506 |
Landscape and Vision Seminar |
| LA 593 |
Special Topics Seminar:
Palaces of South Asia
Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Spain
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| LA 594 |
Cultural Heritage Seminar:
Memory
Cultural Heritage and Human Rights
Intangible Heritage |
| FAA 130 |
Arts and Identity in an International Context |
MDVL 522/
ARTH 522
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Medieval Studies Seminar: Gender East and West |
Research
The art and built environment of the Islamic Mediterranean and South Asia, visual theory, history of water systems, cultural heritage, women and patronage in Islam.
Publications
Selected major publications. For full list see Biography and Publications pdf .
| 2008 |
Islamic Gardens and Landscape. University of Pennsylvania Press. |
| 2007 |
Cultural Heritage and Human Rights, co- edited with Helaine Silverman, Springer Press. |
| 2007 |
Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision, co-edited with Dianne Harris, University of Pittsburgh Press.
This collection of essays emerged from the conference, “Landscape and Vision,” held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. Contributors: Denis Cosgrove, Diane Favro, Dianne Harris, David Hays, Sandy Isenstadt, Martin Jay, Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, W.J.T. Mitchell, D. F. Ruggles, and Marc Treib.
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| 2004 |
Gesta, 43/2, special issue, “Encounters with Islam: The Medieval Mediterranean Experience,” co-edited with Robert Ousterhout |
| 2000 |
Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain, Pennsylvania State University Press.
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| 2000 |
Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies, edited volume, SUNY Press. |
| 1994 |
The Journal of Garden History, special issue, “Sight and Site in the Garden,” co-edited with Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, 14.
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