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Nancy Ajung Um
Getty Research Institute
Occupation
Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: 607-777-5864
Fax: 607-777-4466
1200 Getty Center Drive
Suite 1100
Los Angeles CA 90049
United States
Discipline
Art/Art History
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Trade/Investment
Urban Studies
History Of Architecture
Geographic Areas of Interest
Yemen
Specialties
Indian Ocean Trade
Red Sea Archit
Yemen
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
French (advanced)
Dutch (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2001 | Art Hist | UCLA
Abstracts
Medical Diplomacy and Coffee Troubles: Episodes in the Foreign Relations of the Qasimi Imams of Yemen during the late 17th C and the Early 18th C The So-Called “Indian Wedding Chair”: Unresolved Narratives of Dispersal in a Cosmopolitan Woodworking Tradition