Fuchsia Hart

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DPhil Student

Oxford-Wolfson Marriott Graduate Scholar in Islamic Art

MPhil in Islamic Art and Archaeology (2014 - 2016)
DPhil in Oriental Studies (2016 - present)

Supervisor: Professor Yürekli-Görkay
College affiliation: Wolfson College
Postal Address: The Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford OX1 2LG, UK
Email: fuchsia.hart@ames.ox.ac.uk
Academia.edu: https://oxford.academia.edu/FuchsiaHart

Education:
2014–2016: MPhil in Islamic Art and Archaeology, KRC, University of Oxford (Distinction); Dissertation: The Mosque of Shaykh Lutfallah
2009–2013: BA Persian with Old Iranian Languages, University of Oxford (First Class)

Research interests:

  • the material culture of Imami Shi‘ism
  • the arts of Qajar Iran
  • shrine architecture
  • 13th and 14th century lustre tiles from Iran
  • textiles and carpets from the Islamic world

Awards:

  • Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain PhD Scholarship 2019-20
  • Honourable Mention, Brill Prize for the Best Paper in Architectural History, April 2019, Symposia Iranica
  • Oxford–Wolfson–Marriott Islamic Art & Archaeology Graduate Scholarship, 2014 – 2019

Other Experience:

  • Iran lecturer, Postgraduate Diploma in Islamic Art, SOAS (2019)
  • Course Tutor, Arts of the Islamic Middle East Course, V&A (2018-2019)
  • Correspondent, HALI Magazine (2018 to present)
  • Editor, Journal of the Iran Society (2018 to present)
  • Research Assistant, Iran Exhibition, V&A (2017-2019)

Publications:

  • ‘Pictorial Narration of the Battle of Karbala in Qajar Iran: A Combined Art Historical and Anthropological Approach’, Iran-Namag, vol. 1, no. 4, Winter 2017 

Conference papers:

  • ‘The Carpets from the Mausoleum of Shah ‘Abbas II’, HALI London, 2019 (with Turaj Zhuleh)
  • ‘The Lustre Tile Revetment from the Shrine of Shaykh ‘Abd al-Samad, Natanz’, Symposia Iranica 2019
  • ‘Scarred Men and Seated Princesses: a case study from Bronze Age Iran on the importance of archaeological context’, 10th International Young Archaeologists Conference, Vardzia, Georgia
  • ‘Shaykh Lutfallah and the Architecture of Safavid Shi‘ism’, British Association of Islamic Studies Annual Conference 2018
  • 'The Congregational Mosque of Shaykh Lutfallah', Symposia Iranica 2017

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