12 Facts About Sussan Babaie

Sussan Babaie is an Iranian-born art historian and curator.

Sussan Babaie is best known for her work on Persian art and Islamic art of the early modern period.

Sussan Babaie has written extensively on the art and architecture of the Safavid dynasty.

Sussan Babaie's research takes a multidisciplinary approach and explores topics such as urbanism, empire studies, transcultural visuality and notions of exoticism.

Sussan Babaie lived in the United States from 1979 until 2013.

Since 2013, Babaie has been the Dr Andrew W Mellon Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

Sussan Babaie studied graphic design at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran with Iranian graphic designer Morteza Momayyez until the Iranian Revolution of 1979, when she moved to the United States.

Sussan Babaie's dissertation focused on the arts and architecture of Iran, and was titled "Safavid Palaces at Isfahan; Continuity and Change ".

Since the 1990s, Sussan Babaie has taught art history in Europe and the US.

Sussan Babaie was an assistant professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan between 2001 and 2008 and a visiting professor at the Institut fur Kunstgeschichte at Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich between 2010 and 2012.

Sussan Babaie is on the editorial board of the journal Muqarnas and the president of the Historians of Islamic Art Association.

Sussan Babaie is a member of the Governing Council of the British Academy's British Institute of Persian Studies, as well as a member of the Editorial and Advisory Boards of the Oxford University's Journal of Islamic Material Culture, as well as the Journal of Iranian Studies.