Title

Assistant Professor of Fine Arts

Fine Arts

Expertise

Modern & Contemporary Architecture
(post)Colonial & Critical Theory
Islamic Art & Architecture

Profile

Talinn Grigor (PhD, MIT, 2005) is an Assistant Professor of modern and contemporary architecture in the Department of Fine Arts at Brandeis University. Her interests are in the relationships between architecture and (post)colonial politics, focused on Iran and India. Her book, Building Iran: Modernism, Architecture, and National Heritage under the Pahlavi Monarchs (2009) traces the history of cultural heritage, architectural profession, and political discourses under the Pahlavi dynasty. She is currently preparing a second book, entitled Of Kitsch, Censorship, and Exile: Contemporary Iranian Visual Arts (2011). She is the author of numerous articles that have appeared in the Art Bulletin, 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.