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With Emily Hagen, “What Do We Know about the Future of Art History? Part 2, Dissertations since 1980,” a special essay in caa.reviews, June 28, 2021.
“Grounded Terrains and Vertical Landscapes in Eighteenth-Century Asia.” In Crafting Artisanal Praxis: Networks of Power in the Long Eighteenth Century. Eds. Lauren Cannady and Jennifer Ferng, 297-300. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021.
“From Surat to Jidda: Picturing the Western Indian Ocean Port City.” In The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art. Ed. Radha Dalal, Sean Roberts, and Jochen Sokoly (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021), 184-99.
“A Field without Fieldwork: Sustaining the Study of Islamic Architecture in the 21st Century,” International Journal of Islamic Architecture 10:1 (2021): 99-109.
“What Do We Know about the Future of Art History? Let’s Start by Looking at Its Past, Sixty Years of Dissertations,” a special essay in caa.reviews, August 18, 2020.
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With Anne Regourd, “From Mountain to Mountain: An Epilogue,” in From Mountain to Mountain: Exchange between Yemen and Ethiopia, Medieval to Modern.” Chroniques du manuscrit au Yémen, Special Issue 1 (Installment 3, 2018), 137-40. [pdf of the complete issue]
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“Bridging the Mediterranean and Gujarat with the Turn of a Page: Picturing the Dimensions of Maritime Travel in an Extra-Illustrated Nineteenth-Century Book about India.” Getty Research Journal 8 (2016): 239-46. [pdf]
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“Reflections on the Red Sea Style: Beyond the Surface of Coastal Architecture.” Northeast African Studies 12:1 (2012): 243-71. [pdf]
“Greenlaw’s Suakin: The Limits of Architectural Representation and the Continuing Lives of Buildings in Coastal Sudan.” African Arts 44:4 (Winter 2011): 36-51. [pdf]
“From the Port of Mocha to the Eighteenth-Century Tomb of Imam al-Mahdi Muhammad in al-Mawahib: Locating Architectural Icons and Migratory Craftsmen.” Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 41 (2011): 387-400. [pdf]
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