Faculty

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

Research Interests: Sculpture, Installation, Mixed Media, Materiality

Awam Amkpa, Dean of Arts and Humanities; Professor of Drama, Social and Cultural Analysis Affiliation: NYU New York
Email: aa67@nyu.edu
Education: BA Obafemi Awolowo University (Ile-Ife); MA Ahmadu Bello University (Zaria); PhD Bristol University

Research Interests: modernisms in film and theater, postcolonial film and theater, Black Atlantic films and theater, vis...

Aikaterini Arfara, Assistant Professor of Theater, Performance Studies Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: aa7716@nyu.edu
Education: BA Athens University; MA Athens University; PhD Paris I – Panthéon/Sorbonne University

Research Interests: public works; socially engaged art; installation; post-documentary theaters

Terri Geis, Co-Director of Masters of Fine Arts in Art and Media; Associate Professor of Arts 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

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

Sandra Peters, Co-Program Head, Art and Art History; Associate Professor of Art and Art History 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

Tina Sherwell, Co-Director of Masters of Fine Arts in Art and Media; Associate Arts Professor 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

Deepak Unnikrishnan, Assistant Arts Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: du258@nyu.edu
Education: BA Fairleigh Dickinson University; MA Fairleigh Dickinson University; MFA School of the Art Institut...