Associate Professor, Art History
Director of Graduate Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Affiliate, Islamic Studies Program
Affiliate, African Studies Program
Affiliate, Medieval Studies Institute
medieval Islamic art and architecture; nineteenth-century art and craft in the Islamic world; plastic arts, materiality and histories of making; orientalism, historiography and the master-narrative(s) of Islamic art
Books
Arts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Winner of the International Center of Medieval Art Annual Book Prize, 2019.
Margaret Graves and Moya Carey (eds.), Journal of Art Historiography, 6: Islamic Art historiography, guest-edited special issue, June 2012.
Margaret S. Graves (ed.), Islamic Art, Architecture and Material Culture: New Perspectives (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, International Series 2436, 2012).
Margaret S. Graves (ed. and catalogue entries) and Benoît Junod (ed.), Treasures of the Aga Khan Museum: Arts of Islamic Architecture. Exhibition catalogue (Geneva: Aga Khan Trust for Culture, 2011).
Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters
"Casting Shadows", in Sheila Canby, Deniz Beyazit and Martina Rugiadi, eds, The Seljuqs and Their Successors: Art, Culture and History (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020), 199–214.
"The Lamp of Paradox," Word & Image 34:3 (2018), 237–250.
"Say Something Nice: Supplications on Medieval Objects, and Why They Matter," in Sabine Schmidtke, ed., Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935-2018 (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2018), 322–330.
"Fracture, Facture, and the Collecting of Islamic Art," in Daniel Becker, Annalisa Fischer, and Yola Schmitz, eds, Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting: Discredited Practices at the Margins of Mimesis (Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2018), 91–110.
"The Monumental Miniature: Liquid Architecture in the Kilgas of Cairo," Art History 38:2 (2015), pp. 304–323. Reprinted in Joan Kee and Emanuele Lugli, eds., To Scale (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), 62–81.
"Kashan Ware", Encyclopaedia Iranica, ed. Ehsan Yarshater (New York: Columbia University, 2014).
"Islam and Visual Art", in Frank Burch Brown (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 310–320; also published online in Oxford Handbooks Online.
The College of Arts