Current Member
Ariel Fein
Funding provided by the Herodotus Fund
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
Byzantine and Islamic Art History
Home Institution
Smarthistory
Ariel Fein studies the medieval visual cultures of Byzantium and the Islamic world. Her research focuses on intercultural artistic connections across the frontier zones of the medieval Mediterranean, with a particular interest in the arts of Norman Sicily and the Arab-Christian communities of medieval Egypt and Ifriqiya.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Degrees
Yale University
Ph.D.
2021
Courtauld Institute of Art
M.A.
2013
Barnard College
B.A.
2011
Jewish Theological Seminary
B.A.
2011
Honors
2022
Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize, Historians of Islamic art Association
Appointments
Smarthistory
2021–2023
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Bard Graduate Center
2022
Fields of the Future Fellow
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Islamic Art Department
2019–2020
Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow