Afshan Bokhari
Assistant Professor, Art History
Phone
(617) 573-8785
Email
abokhari@suffolk.edu
Courses
Ideas of Western Art I & II
Arts of India
Arts of Islam
Education
Ph.D., University of Vienna (ABD), 2007
M.A., Boston University, 2005
M.Des.S., Harvard University, 1997
B.A., Wellesley College, 1988
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
"From Shariah to Tariqah: 17th C. Jahan Ara Begum’s Sufi Path to the Timurid Light", Marg Publications, Fall, 2007. (Forthcoming)
“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”, Wellesley College, Gallery Guide, Spring ’05.
“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 Research Scholarship: Japanese Cultural Studies, 1994-1996