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Zainab Bahrani
Zainab Bahrani is the Edith Porada Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. Her research and teaching cover a range of topics around ancient Mesopotamia and the Eastern Mediterranean world in antiquity including: image ontologies and philosophies of representation, mimesis, iconaclasm, monuments, antiquarianism and ancient practices of preservation and resotoration, concepts of time and landscape. Alongside ancient art and material culture, her publications examine the history of scientific archaeology's ties to imperialism and colonialism, museum history, biopolitics and collecting, and technologies of violence in archaeology. Bahrani studies archaeology at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where she earned MA and Ph.D. degrees in a joint programme of Ancient Near Eastern and Greek art history and archaeology. Prior to her appointment at Columbia University, she taught at the University of Vienna in Austria, The State University of New York at Stony Brook, and was a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Contact: Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, 826 Schermerhorn Hall, 1190 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA.
