Persis Berlekamp is the Guitty Azarpay Visiting Professor in the Department of History of Art. She is Associate Professor of Art History and the College at The University of Chicago, where she has taught since 2005, and where she is also affiliated with the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. The objects of her research have included manuscripts, architectural reliefs, and metalwork of the late medieval Islamic world, broadly defined (13th-15th C).
Across media and social milieu, an abiding concern of her research has been the visual arts’ capacity to both...
Dr. Jules Pelta Feldman is Assistant Researcher in the Department of History of Art. They were previously postdoctoral research fellow for the project Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge, sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation and hosted by the Institute for Materiality in Arts and Culture at Bern Academy of the Arts. Pelta Feldman received their doctorate in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and has worked at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Grey Art Museum. Additionally, they were...
Anna Näslund is a visiting scholar in the Department of History of Art. She is professor of Art History at Stockholm University, Sweden. 2019-2023 she was PI of the research projects The Politics of Metadata and Sharing the Visual Heritage (http://metadataculture.se, funded by the Swedish Research Council) which focused on the challenges and opportunities in the digitization and online publication of cultural heritage institutions image collections....
