Jonathan M. Bloom

Jonathan Max Bloom (born April 7, 1950) is an American

In the same year of receiving their doctorates, Bloom and Blair were named Aga Khan Lecturers on Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 1981. Later that year, Bloom was hired as Assistant Professor of Art History at Harvard, a post which he held until 1987, followed by a year as a Research Associate.

In 2000, Bloom and Blair were named to the dual professorship of Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College. In that same year, Bloom served as the principal consultant, with Blair as artistic consultant, for the documentary titled Islam: Empire of Faith.^[2] In 2006, Bloom and Blair also began holding the joint post of Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair of Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University.^[3]

Bloom has held numerous visiting professorships, including at the: University of California, Los Angeles (1980), University of Geneva (1985), Yale University (1989), Trinity College (1995), University of Bamberg (1995-1996), Smith College (2000-2001), and University of Louisville (2005).

During the 2014-2015 academic year, Bloom and Blair held a research residency at the Shangri La Museum.^[4] The couple retired from teaching in 2018.^[5]

See also

• List of Boston College people
• List of Harvard University people
• List of University of Michigan arts alumni

References

External links

• Boston College profile