Patricia Blessing

Patricia Blessing Patricia Blessing is Associate Professor of Art History. Blessing is the author of Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rum, 1240-1330 (Ashgate, 2014) and Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2022). With Elizabeth Dospel Williams and Eiren Shea, she co-authored Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c. 300-1400 for the Cambridge Elements series Global Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Blessing’s work has been supported by the ANAMED Research Center for Anatolian Cultures, the Barakat Trust, the British Academy, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the International Center of Medieval Art, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and the Society of Architectural Historians.
Currently teaching
ISLAMST 149C: Introduction to Islamic Art
ARTHIST 2B: Introduction to Islamic Art
ARTHIST 408B: The Art of Medieval Spain: Muslims, Christians, Jews
ARTHIST 208B: The Art of Medieval Spain: Muslims, Christians, Jews
ARTHIST 404: Water and the Environment in Islamic Architecture
OSPBER 14: Decolonizing the Museum: Germany and Beyond
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