Submitted by M.L. R. Grove on Mon, 18/10/2021 - 14:19
Dr Mariam Rosser-Owen is Curator Middle East at the Asian Department of the V&A and an expert of world renown on Islamic ceramics. We look forward to her lectures for our Tripos, and the handling sessions she will offer at the Fitzwilliam.
Dr Mariam Rosser-Owen has been a curator in the Middle Eastern Section at the Victoria and Albert Museum since 2002, specialising in the arts of the Arab world, in particular the Islamic Mediterranean and North Africa. She has a D.Phil. in Islamic Art and Archaeology from the University of Oxford, and is the author of Islamic Arts from Spain (V&A, 2010), as well as various co-edited volumes and many articles. Her book, Articulating the Ḥijāba: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus. The ʿĀmirid Regency, c.970-1010 AD, is forthcoming with Brill. In 2015, she was awarded an Art Fund New Collecting Award, to research and collect contemporary craft from Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. She curated the exhibition Contemporary Ceramic Art from the Middle East , showing at the V&A until October 2021. She recently co-organised the online conference, Ceramics from Islamic Lands , the first large-scale gathering of scholars in this field.