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Heather Ecker
Dr. Heather Ecker (DPhil, Oxford, 2000) is an independent scholar, curator and owner of Viridian Projects, LLC. Over her career, she has worked at eight international museums and taught at Columbia University and the University of Michigan in the field of Islamic art, including contemporary and traditional arts such as calligraphy. Her research includes Mediterranean urban histories, transregional exchanges in the Islamic and Medieval West, antiquarianism in the early modern age, cosmology and astronomy in the Classical and Islamic eras, ornament and design, the evolution of cultural property laws, and the history of art collecting, particularly of Spanish art and architecture.
