Avinoam Shalem | |
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Born | 1959 Haifa, Israel |
Nationality | Israeli |
Known for | Medieval Islamic, Jewish, and Christian art studies |
Title | Riggio Professor of the History of the Arts of Islam |
Awards | Getty Foundation grant |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Tel Aviv, University of Munich, University of Edinburgh |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Columbia University |
Notable works | Black Mediterranean project |
Avinoam Shalem (born 1959) is the Riggio Professor of the History of the Arts of Islam at Columbia University. [1] He served as director of the American Academy in Rome from 2020 to 2021. [2]
Shalem was born in Haifa,Israel in 1959. [3] [4] He received his B.A. from the University of Tel Aviv,M.A. from the University of Munich before earning a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1995. [3] He worked for the Khalili Collections and taught at the University of Munich prior to joining the Columbia faculty in 2013. [3] He was also a visiting professor at Villa I Tatti, [5] and guest professor at Clark Art Institute and Jawaharlal Nehru University. [6] [7] Shalem's research focuses on medieval Islamic,as well as Jewish and Christian art. [8]
In 2020,he was appointed 24th Director of the American Academy in Rome,where he was a 2016 resident. [9] [10] He stepped down in fall 2021 and returned to his teaching career at Columbia. [11] [12]
In 2022,Shalem received a grant from the Getty Foundation to direct the Black Mediterranean project,which reconsiders the history of the relationship between Africa and Europe by shedding light on African influences on Mediterranean cultures. [13]
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