The anthropology and history of art and material culture, especially in equatorial Africa and the western Indian Ocean; comparative work on themes such as memory, miniaturisation, and the experience of the environment
Modern and Contemporary African and African Diaspora Art; Classical and traditional African Art; Postcolonial theory and Art criticism; Art and politics
Ottoman and Mediterranean architectural history; premodern Islamic art and architecture; artistic cosmopolitanism of early modern Islamicate empires; visual culture and history of science; aesthetics of abstraction and ornament; critical historiography
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