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Mira Xenia Schwerda
University of Edinburgh
Occupation
Lecturer
Contact
Discipline
Art/Art History
Sub Areas
Iranian Studies
Central Asian Studies
History Of Architecture
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
Publishing
Historiography
Persian
19th-21st Centuries
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Ottoman Empire
India
Specialties
Qajar Photography, Print And Painting
Relationship Between Art And Politics
History Of Persianate Art, Architecture And Visual
Languages
English (fluent)
German (native)
Persian (advanced)
Arabic (intermediate)
Russian (elementary)
Urdu (intermediate)
Uzbek (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Latin (intermediate)
Avestan (elementary)
Pahlavi (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2020 | History of Art & Middle Eastern Studies | Harvard University
MA | 2017 | Art History | Harvard University
MA | 2014 | Art & Archaeology | Princeton University
MA | 2010 | History and Middle Eastern Studies | University of Tübingen
Abstracts
The Spectacle of Death: Photographic Depictions of Executions in the Qajar Era Fashioning Identities for the Camera: Dress and Costume in Qajar and Pahlavi Photo Albums Currently, the Ajam Archive is a digital home to over 500 items, ranging from visual, textual, and material artifacts, that shed light on history from below