Talinn Grigor gave a Visiting Lecture Presentation at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2018.
Talinn Grigor’s research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century art and architectural histories through the framework of postcolonial and critical theories, grounded in Iran, Armeno-Iran, and Parsi India. Her books include a winner of the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award from the Association of Iranian Studies, The Persian Revival: The Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture (Penn State Univ., 2021); Contemporary Iranian Art: From the Street to the Studio (Reaktion, 2014); and Building Iran: Modernism, Architecture, and National Heritage under the Pahlavi Monarchs (Periscope, 2009). Her articles have appeared in the Art Bulletin, Getty Research Journal, Third Text, Aggregate, Future Anterior, Journal of Iranian Studies, and Journal of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. She has held residential fellowships at the National Gallery of Art/CASVA, Getty Research Institute, and Cornell and Princeton universities. Her scholarship has benefited from grants from the Social Science Research Council, the University of California Humanities Institute, the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus, the Aga Khan Program at MIT, and the Opler, Whiting, Norman, Roshan, Soudavar, Mossavar-Rahmani, and Persian Heritage foundations.