Join us as we interview art history professor Alex Dika Seggerman on our afikra Conversations series on February 11.
Date: Tuesday, February 16
Time: 12PM NYC | 5PM London | 7PM Beirut
Hosted By: Mikey Muhanna (afikra)
Alex Dika Seggerman is an Assistant Professor of Islamic Art History t Rutgers University - Newark. Dr. Seggerman received her Ph.D. from Yale University in the History of Art in 2014. She held postdoctoral fellowships at Smith College, Hampshire College, and Yale University prior to joining the Rutgers-Newark faculty in 2018. Dr. Seggerman’s scholarship investigates the intersection of Islam and modernism in art history. Her first book, Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary, traces the arc of Egyptian modernism in art, arguing that artists confronted and visualized the transnational context of their circulation.