Her professional experience includes internships at the Smithsonian Institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum in addition to work with the US Embassy in Canada, the Carleton University Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Alberta, and the Yale Center for British Art.
Research Videos
Introduction to the Visual Resources of the Middle East Project
In this video Kiswar Rizvi introduces the project and also shows viewers how to navigate the VRME site on Artstor.
Kishwar Rizvi
Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture | History of Art
Kishwar Rizvi is a Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture in the History ofArt Department at Yale University. She established the Visual Resources of the Middle East working group in 2018, with funds from a Title VI grant from the US Department of Education to the Council on Middle East Studies at Yale. The impetus for the VRME comes from her teaching and learning from students about the breadth of the collections, and a desire to make these resources widely available.
Anne Hunnell Chen Discusses Dura-Europos artifacts
In this video Anne H. Chen discusses the unique archaeological circumstances at Dura-Europos (Syria) that led to the unusual survival of artifacts made of organic materials–including a Roman shield (scutum) and child’s shoe–today preserved in Yale collections.
Anne Hunnell Chen
Postdoctoral Associate | ARCHAIA Program at Yale University
Anne Hunnell Chen is a Postdoctoral Associate in the ARCHAIA Program at Yale University where she leads the Yale Digital Dura-Europos Archive (YDEA) Project. She received her Ph.D. in 2014 from Columbia University. In this video she discusses the unique archaeological circumstances at Dura-Europos (Syria) that led to the unusual survival of artifacts made of organic materials–including a Roman shield (scutum) and child’s shoe–today preserved in Yale collections.
John Frederick Lewis Islamic Architecture
Manon Gaudet introduces us to John Lewis art of the middle east.
Manon Gaudet
PhD candidate | History of Art
Manon Gaudet is a PhD candidate in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University. She studies the history of 19th and 20th-century North American art and collecting. Prior to coming to Yale, she received an MA in Art History from Carleton University and a BA with Honours from the University of Alberta.
19th-century alphabet book from Ottoman Istanbul
In this video, Selin Ünlüönen speaks about a nineteenth-century alphabet book from Ottoman Istanbul currently at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Selin Ünlüönen
Ph.D. candidate | History of Art
Selin Ünlüönen is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of the History of Art at Yale University, and starting in Fall 2021, she will be the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History at Oberlin College. Focusing on manuscript painting in early modern Iran, her dissertation studies how books and manuscript paintings shape the cultures that produced them.
