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Eva R. Hoffman |
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Associate Professor of Art History and Coordinator of FAH 001 and FAH 002 - Art, Ritual and Culture and Art, Politics and Culture; Director of Undergraduate Studies; Program Director of Middle Eastern Studies
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Art & Art History Department
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| Degrees: |
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Ph.D. Harvard University; M.A. Harvard University; B.A. Brooklyn College |
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Islamic Art; Art of the Medieval Mediterranean World
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| Major Awards: |
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Partnership in Technology (APT) Grant, 2005-06; Aga Khan Program of Islamic Art and Architecture Fellowship at Harvard University, 2004 |
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eva.hoffman@tufts.edu
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| Scholarship & Research: |
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"Translation in Ivory: Interactions Across Cultures and Media in the Mediterranean during the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries" Siculo-Arabic Ivories, ed. David Knipp, Bibliotheca Hertziana (in press).
"The Meeting of Holiness and Commerce: Expanding Sacred and Cultural Boundaries in the Medieval Mediterranean World," Cultural Encounters in the Mediterranean, ed. Alan Chong, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Art (in press).
“Between East and West: The Wall Paintings of Samarra and The Construction of Abbasid Princely Culture,” Muqarnas, 25 (2008): 107-132.
Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean, ed., an anthology of critical essays, Blackwell Press, 2007.
“ARTIFACT: Mapping a Global Survey of the History of Art”, with Christine Cavalier, in Teaching Art History With New Technologies, edited by Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Laetitia La Follette, and Andrea Pappas (2008, in press, Jossey-Bass/Wiley)
“Christian-Islamic Encounters on Thirteenth-Century Ayyubid Metalwork: Local Culture, Authenticity and Memory,” Gesta , XLIII/2, 2004, 129-42.
“Pathways of Portability: Islamic and Christian interchange from the tenth through the twelfth century,” Art History, 24 no. 1, February 2001, 17-50.
“The Classical Tradition and the Illustrated Arabic Book,” Die Gegenwart des Altertums. Formen und Funktionen des Altertumsbezugs in den Hochkulturen der Alten Welt, ed. Dieter Kuhn and Helga Stahl, Universität Würzburg, Heidelberg: Edition Forum, 2001.
“The Beginnings of the Illustrated Arabic Book: An Intersection between Art and Scholarship,” Muqarnas, 17, September, 2000, 37-52.
“A Fatimid Book Cover: Framing and Reframing Cultural Identity in the Medieval Mediterranean World,” L’Égypte Fatimide: son art et son histoire, Paris: Université Paris-Sorbonne, 1999.
"The Emergence of Illustration in Arabic Manuscripts: Classical Legacy and Islamic Transformation," Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1982 (UMI Press, 1983).
Current Writing and Research:
Art and Culture of the Medieval Medieval Mediterranean World ( in
preparation)
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