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Sana Mirza Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution |
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Bio: Sana Mirza manages the Scholarly Programs and Publications division of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art. She has contributed to various research projects related to Islamic Art and managed digital initiatives, including the online exhibition The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Roads. In addition to her work managing Ars Orientalis and other research publications, Sana coordinates the museum’s fellowship programs and scholarly events. Sana is a PhD candidate specializing in Islamic art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her dissertation explores a corpus of Qur’an manuscripts from eastern Ethiopia produced between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and their Red Sea and Indian Ocean milieus. She is coediting with Simon Rettig The Word Illuminated: Qur’an Manuscripts from the 7th–17th Centuries (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press) and has contributed to the exhibition catalogue The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures of the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts. Sana earned her BA in History and Art History with a minor in Islamic Studies from George Mason University and an MA in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. |
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