PATRICIA BLESSING Curriculum vitae Department of Art & Archaeology Email: [email protected] Princeton University Website: https://scholar.princeton.edu/pblessing 105 McCormick Hall Princeton, NJ 08544 _____________________________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION PhD, Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 2012. MA, Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 2009. Fields: Islamic; western medieval; Byzantine Otto-Friedrich Universität, Bamberg, Germany, 2003-2006. Major: Islamic Art History and Archaeology; Minors: Arabic, Western Art History Demi-licence, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland, 2003. Majors: Art History, Near Eastern Studies. Minor: Comparative Literature EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, since July 2020. Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Pomona College, 2017-20. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Pomona College, 2016-17. H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellow, Society of Architectural Historians, 2015-16. International & Scholarship Program Officer, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, 2012-15. Lecturer, Stanford University, 2012-14. PUBLICATIONS Book Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rūm, 1240-1330, Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies 17 (Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishers, 2014, e-book edition 2016). Translated into Turkish as Moğol Fethinden Sonra Anadolu’nun Yeniden İnşası: Rum Diyarında İslami Mimari, 1240-1330 (Istanbul: Koç University Press, 2018). Curriculum vitae, June 2020 2 Patricia Blessing Edited volumes Architectural Models, Mobility, and Building Techniques: Modes of Transfer in Medieval Anatolia, Byzantium, and the Caucasus, special issue Funūn – Transcultural Perspectives, fall 2014. Patricia Blessing and Rachel Goshgarian (eds) Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100- 1500 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, paperback 2018). Draping the Middle Ages, guest-edited issue of The Textile Museum Journal 45 (2018). Peer-reviewed journal articles “Blue-and-White Tiles of the Muradiye in Edirne: Architectural Decoration between Tabriz, Damascus, and Cairo,” Muqarnas 36 (2019): 101-129. “Weaving on the Wall: Architecture and Textiles in the Monastery of Las Huelgas in Burgos,” Studies in Iconography 40 (2019): 137-182. “Draping, Wrapping, Hanging: Transposing Textile Materiality in the Middle Ages,” introduction for Draping the Middle Ages, The Textile Museum Journal 45 (2018): 2-18. “Architecture, Scale, and Empire: Monuments in Anatolia between Mamluk and Ilkhanid Aspirations,” Вопросы всеобщей истории архитектуры [Questions of the History of World Architecture, Moscow] 11, no. 2 (December, 2018): 114-131. “Presenting Islamic Art: Reflections on Old and New Museum Displays,” Review of Middle East Studies 52, no. 1 (Spring, 2018): 147-152. “Seljuk Past and Timurid Present: Tile Decoration of the Yeşil Complex in Bursa, Turkey,” Gesta 56, no. 2 (Fall, 2017): 225-250. “Medieval Monuments from Empire to Nation-State: Beyond Armenian and Islamic Architecture in the South Caucasus (1180-1300),” The Medieval South Caucasus: Artistic Cultures of Albania, Armenia, and Georgia, ed. Ivan Foletti and Erik Thunø, Convivium: Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean, Seminarium Kondakovianum (Supplementum 2016): 52-69. “Buildings of Commemoration in Medieval Anatolia: The Funerary Complexes of Ṣāḥib ‘Aṭā Fakhr al- Dīn ‘Alī and Māhperī Khātūn,” al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean 27, no. 3 (December, 2015): 225-252. “Friedrich Sarre and the Discovery of Seljuk Anatolia,” Journal of Art Historiography 11 (December, 2014): 1-20. “Women Patrons in Medieval Anatolia and a Discussion of Māhbarī Khātūn’s Mosque Complex in Kayseri,” Belleten (Türk Tarih Kurumu) LXXVIII, no. 282 (August, 2014): 475-526 (plus plates). “Recording the Transformation of Urban Landscapes in Turkey: The Diaries of Kurt Erdmann and Ernst Diez,” Studies in Travel Writing 16, no. 4 (October, 2012): 415-425. Peer-reviewed book chapters Curriculum vitae, June 2020 3 Patricia Blessing “The Vessel as Garden: The ‘Alhambra Vases’ and Sensory Perception in Nasrid Architecture,” in: Sensory Reflections: Traces of Experience in Medieval Artifacts, ed. Fiona Griffiths and Kathryn Starkey (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018), 116-141. “All Quiet on the Eastern Frontier? Early Ottoman Architecture and its Contemporaries in Eastern Anatolia,” in Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500, ed. Patricia Blessing and Rachel Goshgarian (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 200-223. Patricia Blessing and Rachel Goshgarian, “Introduction: Space and Place - Applications to Medieval Anatolia,” in Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500, 1-24. Maria Cristina Carile and Patricia Blessing, “Architectural Illusions and Architectural Representations: Space in the Salerno Ivories,” in The Salerno Ivories: Objects, Histories, Contexts, ed. Antony Cutler et al. (Berlin: Reimer Verlag-Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2016), 111-124. “From the Survey of Persian Art to the CIA: Donald N. Wilber and Ilkhanid Architecture in Iran,” in Historiography of Persian Architecture, ed. Mohammad Gharipour (New York and London: Routledge, 2016), 112-146. Maria Cristina Carile and Patricia Blessing, “Architetture e città mediterranee negli avori di Salerno,” in: Gli avori medievali di Amalfi e Salerno, ed. Francesca Dell'Acqua et al. Quaderni del Centro di Cultura e Storia Amalfitana 8 – Opere e Territorio: Vademecum (Amalfi: Centro di Cultura e Storia Amalfitana, 2015), 117-128. “Allegiance, Praise, and Space: Monumental Inscriptions in Thirteenth-century Anatolia as Architectural Guides,” in Calligraphy and Architecture in the Muslim World, ed. Mohammad Gharipour and İrvin Cemil Schick (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013), 431-446. Encyclopedia entries “Ka‘ba, II: Visual Arts,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, ed. Hans-Josef Klauck et al., vol. 14 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017), 1163-1164. “Holy Family (Christian), IV: Visual Arts, Islamic,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, ed. Hans-Josef Klauck et al., vol. 12 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016), doi: 10.1515/ebr.holyfamilychristian. “Holy Family (Islamic), II: Visual Arts,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, ed. Hans-Josef Klauck et al., vol. 12 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016), doi: 10.1515/ebr.holyfamilyislamic. Mohammad Gharipour and Patricia Blessing, “Mausoleums of the Islamic World,” Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, third edition, ed. Helaine Selin (Berlin and New York: Springer, 2015), doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-3934-5_10227-1. “Grabar, Oleg,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, ed. Hans-Josef Klauck et al. vol. 10 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015), doi: 10.1515/ebr.grabaroleg. “Elijah, Visual Arts, Islam,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, ed. Hans-Josef Klauck et al., vol. 7 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013): 709-711. Curriculum vitae, June 2020 4 Patricia Blessing Articles and book chapters without peer-review “Inscribed Identities: Some Monumental Inscriptions in Eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus,” in: The Seljuqs and their Successors: Art, Culture and History, ed. Sheila Canby, Martina Rugiadi, and Deniz Beyazit (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020), 129-143. “Building a Frontier: Architecture in Anatolia under Ilkhanid Rule,” in Cultural Encounters in Anatolia in the Medieval Period: The Ilkhanids in Anatolia, symposium proceedings, 21-22 May 2015, Ankara, ed. Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu and Suzan Yalman (Ankara: VEKAM, 2020), 65-85. “Silk Road without Fabrics: Ani at the Crossroads of Trade and Textile Motives in Architecture,” in: Ani at the Crossroads, ed. Zaza Shkirtladze (Tbilisi: Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Press, 2019), 229-254. “Urban Space Beyond the Walls: Siting Islamic Funerary Complexes in Konya,” Tomb - Memory - Space: Concepts of Representation in Premodern Christian and Islamic Art, ed. Francine Giese, Anna Pawlak, and Markus Thome (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018), 23-41. “Brilliant Color in Brick and Stone: Tile Decoration as a Visual Device in Medieval Anatolia,” in Light Color Line - Perceiving the Mediterranean: Conflicting Narratives and Ritual Dynamics, ed. Thomas Dittelbach and Agnes Sebestyén (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2016), 23-30. “Puttenköpfe – Löwentatzen: ein skulptierter Kamin aus Nürnberg,” Kulturgut – aus der Forschung des Germanischen Nationalmuseums 9.2 (2006): 10-12. “Marcellus Coffermans: La Vierge au raisin,” and “d’après Jan Gossaert, dit Mabuse: Vierge au voile,” in La naissance des genres - La peinture des anciens Pays-Bas (avant 1620) au Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève, ed. Frédéric Elsig (Geneva and Paris: Somogy, 2005), cats. no. 5 and 6. H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship Reports, Society of Architectural Historians Blog Links to all posts are available at: http://www.sah.org/publications-and-research/fellowship-reports/brooks-fellow-reports “Back to the Balkans (and then the States): Final Report,” 28 June 2016. “(Un)Holy Land: Israel and Palestine,” 13 June 2016. “Frontiers in Armenia: Hellenistic, Late Antique, Medieval, and Islamic Art (History) in the Caucasus,” 17 May 2016. “Spanish Itineraries, Part 2: Madrid, Toledo, Zaragoza,” 21 April 2016. “Byzantium in Istanbul, or: Istanbul is Constantinople (among other things),” 28 March 2016. “Creating