Afshan Bokhari
Assistant Professor, Art History
Phone
(617) 573-8785
Email
abokhari@suffolk.edu
Courses
Ideas of Western Art I & II
Education
Ph.D., University of Vienna (ABD), August 2007
M.A., Boston University, 2005
M.Des.S., Harvard University, 1997
B.A., Wellesley College, 1998
Research Interests
The visual arts and gender politics of Indo/Persian cultures and the visual and literary articulations of religion, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and nation. Recent research includes narratives of gender and sexuality in pre-modern and modern Asian and Islamic Arts including film, photography and
literature.
Other Teaching Experience
2006-2007 Senior Lecturer– Art History Dept., Dartmouth College, Hanover, MA
2005-2007 Senior Lecturer– Humanities Dept., Suffolk University, Boston, MA
2003-2005 Visiting Lecturer– Art History Dept., Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
2000-2003 Instructor– Art History/Critical Studies Dept and Environmental Design, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1998-2000 Instructor– Department of Art & Architecture, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
1992-1993 Instructor– Humanities Department, Hokusei Women’s College, Sapporo, Japan
Curatorial Experience
2006-2007 Adjunct Curator, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
2003-2005 Adjunct Curator, Davis Museum & Culture Center, Wellesley, MA
2001-2002 Adjunct Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Publications
“Tomb of Sufi Shaykh Chishti, Ajmer India”, Encyclopedia of Sacred Sites and Religious Icons, Facts on File, University of Texas, 2007. (Forthcoming)
“Islam: Saints and Love”, Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions, ABC-CLIO Publisher, 2007. (Forthcoming)
“Taj Mahal”, Encyclopedia of Sacred Sites and Religious Icons, Facts on File, University of Texas, 2007. (Forthcoming)
“The Observed and Envisioned: Female Identity in 16th – 19th century Indian Miniature Paintings”, Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, Berkeley University Press, Berkeley, CA, 2007-08
“Maham Anaga”, “Fatima Jinaah” and “Hurrem Sultana”, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, 2007.
Awards
AICA-International Association of Art Critics, 2006
Best Historic Museum Show: ‘The Observed & Envisioned: 16th to 19th C. Indian Miniature Paintings
Mellon Grant for Asian Arts and Cultural Studies (Dartmouth College), 2006-2007
Fulbright BHays Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2004-2005
Affiliated with the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi
Fulbright Research Scholarship: Japanese Cultural Studies, 1994-1996