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Sheila S. Blair
Sheila S. Blair retired in 2018 as the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College and in 2019 as the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair of Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, positions she shared with her husband and co-author, Jonathan Bloom. The author of books on subjects ranging from a shrine in Iran to Islamic inscriptions and calligraphy, she continues to work on the arts of the Mongol period across Eurasia.