Professor Finbarr Barry Flood FBA

The material culture of Islamicate societies; transcultural dimensions of artistic production and reception; social functions of devotional imagery; intersections between occult and therapeutic materials; replication, technology and concepts of modernity
Head and shoulders photo of Professor Finbarr Barry Flood FBA (credit Alya Karame)
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2023
Subjects
Art history, History, Music

Current post

Founder-director of Silsila, Center for Material Histories

Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History, New York University William R Kenan, Jr Professor of the Humanities

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