Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
ABOUT
Elizabeth Rauh is Assistant Professor of Modern Art and Visual Cultures at the American University in Cairo (AUC) and Director of the Visual Arts Program. Specializing in the history of arts and visual cultures of Iraq, Iran, and Western Asia, her work examines artist engagements with Islamic heritage, popular image practices and technologies in the Islamic world, and arts of the 1960s Shi`i Left. She also pursues research in ecological art practices in the Persian Gulf history, such as in her recent article “Experiments in Eden: Midcentury Artist Voyages into the Mesopotamian Marshlands” (Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World, 2021). Her research has been funded by The Academic Research Institute in Iraq, the Darat al Funun Center for Modern and Contemporary Arab Art, the Max Weber Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Discipline
Art/Art History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Environment
Globalization
Gulf Studies
Iranian Studies
Islamic Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Visual Cultural
Geographic Areas of Interest
Bahrain
Fertile Crescent
Gulf
Iran
Iraq
Jordan
Languages
French (advanced)
Persian (advanced)
Arabic (advanced)
German (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2020
| History of Art
| University of Michigan
MA
| 2012
| History of Art
| Indiana University
BA
| 2009
| History of Art
| Indiana University
Abstracts
Writing Alone: Street Art in Post-Revolutionary Iran
An Artist Curating Islamic Heritage: Ali Jabri and the Jordan Museum of Popular Traditions
A Museum of Oneʼs Own: Ali Jabri and Curatorial Practice as Worldmaking in the Jordan Museum of Popular Traditions
