Afshan Bokhari
Assistant Professor, Art History
Phone
(617) 573-8785
Email
abokhari@suffolk.edu
Courses
Ideas of Western Art I & II
Arts of India
Arts of Islam
Non-Western Visual Culture
Women in Art: Eastern & Western Perspectives
Education
Ph.D., University of Vienna, Institute of Art History, 2008
M.A., Boston University, 2005
M.Des., Harvard University, 1997
B.A., Wellesley College, 1988
Research Interests
The visual arts and gender politics of Indo-Persian culture and the visual and literary articulations of religion, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and nation. Recent research includes narratives of gender and sexuality in pre-modern and modern Asian and Islamic Arts including film, photography and literature.
Teaching Experience
2006-2007 Senior Lecturer– Art History Dept., Dartmouth College, Hanover, MA
2005-2007 Senior Lecturer– Humanities Dept., Suffolk University, Boston, MA
2003-2005 Visiting Lecturer– Art History Dept., Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
2000-2003 Instructor– Art History/Critical Studies Dept and Environmental Design, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1998-2000 Instructor– Department of Art & Architecture, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
1992-1993 Instructor– Humanities Department, Hokusei Women’s College, Sapporo, Japan
Curatorial Experience
2006-2007 Adjunct Curator, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
2003-2005 Adjunct Curator, Davis Museum & Culture Center, Wellesley, MA
2001-2002 Adjunct Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Publications
The "Light" of the Timuria: Jahan Ara Begum’s Patronage, Piety, and Poetry in 17th Century Mughal India, MARG Publications, Sept., 2008.
“Between Patron and Piety: Jahan Ara Begum’s Sufi Affiliations and Articulations” in The Nexus of Sufism and Society:
Arrangements of the Mystical in the Muslim World, 1200-1800 C.E., Routledge Publications, (forthcoming March 2009).
“Islam: Saints and Love”, Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions, ABC-CLIO Publisher, Sept., 2007.
"Maham Anaga", "Fatima Jinnah" and Hurrem Sultana", Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Sept., 12007.
“The Observed and Envisioned: Female Identity in 16th – 19th Century Indian Miniature Paintings”, Wellesley College, Gallery Guide, Spring ’05.
Awards
AICA-International Association of Art Critics, 2006
Best Historic Museum Show: ‘The Observed & Envisioned: 16th to 19th C. Indian Miniature Paintings
Mellon Grant for Asian Arts and Cultural Studies (Dartmouth College), 2006-2007