Sheila Blair
Sheila Blair | |
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Born | Sheila S. Blair November 26, 1948 Asian art |
Institutions | Boston College Virginia Commonwealth University |
Sheila S. Blair (born November 26, 1948) is a
Career
Blair received her
Following graduation from Tufts, Blair took a one-year position as an instructor of sociology at Shiraz University. After receiving her doctoral degree, she and Bloom were named Aga Khan Lecturers on Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 1981. In the following year, Blair was a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania.
In 2000, Blair and Bloom were named to the dual professorship of Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College. In that same year, she served as the artistic consultant, with Bloom as principal consultant, for the documentary titled Islam: Empire of Faith.[1] In 2006, they also began holding the joint post of Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair of Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University.[2]
During the 2014-2015 academic year, Blair and Bloom held a research residency at the Shangri La Museum.[3] The couple retired from teaching in 2018.[4]
See also
- List of Boston College people
- List of Harvard University people
- List of people from Montreal
- List of Tufts University people