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Zainab Bahrani
Zainab Bahrani is the Edith Porada professor of art history and archaeology at Columbia University. She is the author of Women of Babylon (Routledge, 2001), The Graven Image (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003) and Rituals of War (Zone Books, 2008), which won the American Historical Association’s James Henry Breasted Prize as well as The Infinite Image: Art, Time and the Aesthetic Dimension in Antiquity (Reaktion and University of Chicago Press, 2014) which won the Lionel Trilling Prize, and Art of Mesopotamia (Thames & Hudson, 2018). She is also the editor and co-author of volumes written to accompany exhibitions that she co-curated. Notable among them are Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire 1753–1914 (Salt/Garanti Kültür A.S., 2011) and Modernism and Iraq (Wallach Gallery, 2009). Major awards for her research include grants from the Getty Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, a 2003 Guggenheim and a 2019 Carnegie award.
Contact: Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, 826 Schermerhorn Hall, 1190 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA.