Brandeis University

Faculty Member, Fine Arts

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Talinn Grigor (PhD, MIT, 2005) is an Assistant Professor of modern and contemporary architecture in the Department of Fine Arts at Brandeis University. Her research concentrates on the cross-pollination of architecture and (post)colonial politics, focused on Iran and India. She is the author of "Building Iran: Modernism, Architecture, and National Heritage under the Pahlavi Monarchs" (Prestel, 2009). Her second book, "Contemporary Iranian Arts and Visual Culture: Kitsch, Avant-garde, and Exile" (Reaktion 2012) is in production, so is a co-edited book on Iranian kingship and architecture (I.B. Tauris 2011). She is also the author of numerous articles that have appeared in the Art Bulletin, Getty Journal, Third Text, Future Anterior, Journal of Iranian Studies, Thresholds, and DOCOMOMO among others. She has received a postdoctoral fellowship at the Getty Research Institute; the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship from Cornell University; the Ittleson Predoctoral Fellowship from CASVA in the National Gallery of Art; grants from the Soudavar Memorial Foundation, the Soros Foundation, the Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute, and the Aga Khan Award at MIT. Her present project deals with the turn-of-the-century European art-historiography and its links to eclectic architecture in Qajar Iran and the British Raj.

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