Faculty

Shaikha Rashid Al Mazrou, Visiting Assistant Professor Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: shaikha.almazrou@nyu.edu
Education: MA Chelsea University of the Arts London

Research Interests: Sculpture, Installation, Mixed Media, Materiality

Salha Reema Fadda, Adjunct Lecturer of Art and Art History Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: reema.fadda@nyu.edu
Education: MA Edinburgh University; MA School of Oriental and African Studies; DPhil Researcher University of O...

Research Interests: Art History; Art and Politics of the Arab world; Cultural Politics

Reindert Falkenburg, Special Academic Advisor; Visiting Professor of Early Modern Art and Culture Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rlf9@nyu.edu

Research Interests: visual arts, tensions and crises in late medieval and Renaissance art

Terri Lynn Geis, Visiting Associate Arts Professor Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: terri.geis@nyu.edu
Education: BA St Andrews; MA Trinity College Dublin; PhD University of Essex

Research Interests: Surrealism; Art of the Americas; Women Modernists

Fiona Kidd, Co-Program Head, Art and Art History; Assistant Professor of History and Art and Art History; Global Network Assistant Professor in the Study of the Ancient World Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: fjk3@nyu.edu
Education: BA (Hons) University of Melbourne; PhD University of Sydney

Research Interests: identity, images and the built environment, craft production, pre-Islamic Central Asian visual art

Salila Kulshreshtha, Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Art and Art History Affiliation: Visiting
Email: salila.kulshreshtha@nyu.edu
Education: BA Lady Shri Ram College; MA Jawaharlal Nehru University; MPhil Jawaharlal Nehru University; PhD Jaw...

Research Interests: Art and archaeology of South Asia, Religion in the Indian Ocean world, Museums and Heritage studies

Jill Magi, Associate Arts Professor Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jill.magi@nyu.edu
Education: MA, City College of the City University of New York; MFA, Goddard College

Research Interests: poetry and poetics, experimental literature, handmade books, alternatives to mainstream publishing, ...

Salwa Mikdadi, Professor of Practice of Art History Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sm5436@nyu.edu
Education: BA American University of Beirut; MA J. F. Kennedy University

Research Interests: history of modern and contemporary art in the Arab world

Merritt Moore, Distinguished Artist in Residence, Adjunct Professor of Practice Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: merritt.moore@nyu.edu
Education: BA Harvard College, PhD University of Oxford

Research Interests: Robots, Quantum Physics, Dance

Susan Marie Ossman, Visiting Professor of Movements and Places, Movement and Cultural Practices Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: smo7149@nyu.edu
Education: AB UC Berkeley, DEA U Paris VII, MA UC Berkeley, PhD UC Berkeley

Research Interests: Mobility, Subjectivity; Globalization; Gender; Art and Scholarship

Robert Parthesius, Program Head for Heritage and Museum Studies; Associate Professor Heritage and Museum Studies  Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rp1768@nyu.edu
Education: MA University of Amsterdam; PhD University of Amsterdam

Research Interests: Heritage Studies, Maritime Archaeology

Sandra Peters, Co-Program Head, Art and Art History; Associate Arts Professor of Arts Practice; Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sp159@nyu.edu
Education: BFA ("Vordiplom") Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden; MFA ("Diplom“) Hochschule für Bildende Kün...

Research Interests: art in architecture, sculpture, installation, moving images, performance

Goffredo Puccetti, Associate Professor of Practice of Visual Arts Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: goffredo.puccetti@nyu.edu
Education: Laurea cum Laude in Italian Literature and Art History from the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'; Gr...

Research Interests: corporate identity, branding, visual communications

Tina Sherwell, Director of Masters in Fine Arts; Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Art History Affiliation: Visiting
Email: ts4591@nyu.edu
Education: BA Goldsmiths College, University of London, PhD University of Kent at Canterbury

Research Interests: identity; landscape; Arab art; Palestinian art; visual culture

Gregor Stemmrich, Professor of Art and Art History Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: gs148@nyu.edu
Education: Staatsexamen (degree for teaching art); PhD Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Postdoctoral lecture qualificat...

Research Interests: new technologies in contemporary art (film and video), media theory, history of exhibitions and art ...

Denise-Marie Teece, Assistant Professor of Art History Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: dmt230@nyu.edu
Education: MA, PhD New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

Research Interests: art and architecture in the Islamic world

Johannes Andreas Valentin, Visiting Professor of Arts and Humanities Affiliation: Visiting
Email: jav4553@nyu.edu
Education: BA Swarthmore College; MA Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro; PhD Universidade Federal ...

Research Interests: Photography; Art History; Cultural Studies

Mahnaz Yousefzadeh, Affiliate Professor Affiliation: NYU New York
Email: my16@nyu.edu
Education: PhD State University of New York, Binghamton

Research Interests: Early Modern Mediterranean and Persianate worlds. Global art history. Aesthetics and Politics.

Alia Yunis, Visiting Associate Professor of Film and Heritage Studies Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: alia.yunis@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Minnesota; MA American University; PhD University of Amsterdam

Research Interests: Middle East & the Gulf; Film & Television; Literature; Heritage; Memory & Identity; Heritage, Food& ...

Shamoon Zamir, Professor of Literature and Art History; Global Network Professor of Literature and Art History Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sz42@nyu.edu
Education: BA, University of London; MA, Institute of United States and Latin American Studies, London; PhD, Un...

Research Interests: literature, photography, intellectual history