I hold a B.A. in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean art and archaeology from the International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo; an M.A. in Islamic and Central Asian/Chinese Art and Archaeology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London; as well as a Ph.D. in Islamic and Eastern Christian Art and Archaeology from Freie Universität Berlin. Currently, I am a Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Research Fellow at IDEMEC/MMSH-CNRS in Aix-en-Provence, France, working on a project entitled "The Visual Culture of Sufism in France and Germany" (SufiVisual). My areas of academic interest include mythology and mysticism, visual and material culture, museology, visual anthropology, religious art and iconoclasm, magic, miracles and the marvellous, angels and angelology, hybrid animals in religion and myth, shared religious spaces, pilgrimage and sacred topography in an interreligious perspective, cosmographies and imaginary journeys, migration and (cross- /trans-)cultural dimensions of objects, ideas and images, and gender studies.

Art/Art History

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