Christiane Jacqueline Gruber | Faculty
Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art
E-mail: chgruber@indiana.edu
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Education
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2005
Research Interests
- Islamic painting and illustrated manuscripts
- Islamic calligraphy
- Modern Iranian art
Selected Publications
- Arabic-Script Calligraphic Items in the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.: Online catalogue of islamic calligraphies
- “The Keir Mi'raj: Islamic Storytelling and the Picturing of Tales in the Fifteenth Century,” Central Eurasian Studies Review 4/1 (February 2005): 35-39.
- “The Prophet Muhammad’s Ascension (Mi'raj) in Islamic Painting and Literature: Evidence from Cairo Collections,” Bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt 185 (Summer 2004): 24-31.
Honors and Awards
- Senior post doctoral fellowship/Resident Director, American Institute of Iranian Studies, Fall 2007
- Margaret B. Sevcenko Prize for Best Article on Islamic Art by a Young Scholar, College Art Association (2006)
- Dissertation (2004) and postdoctoral (2006) fellowships, American Research Institute in Turkey
- Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, Council for Library and Information Resources (2003-4)
- Dissertation grant, American Research Center in Egypt (Summer 2003)
- Fulbright-Hays dissertation grant (2002-3)
