Meet the Author
Kirsten Scheid
Kirsten Scheid is Professor of Anthropology and Art Studies at the American University of Beirut. Her book, Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920-1950 (Indiana U Press, 2022) earned honorable mention for the Fatima Mersnis Book Award in studies of denger, sexuality, and women's lived experience. She recently curated "Partisans of the Nude: An Arab Art Genre in an Era of Contest, 1920-1960" at Columbia University's Wallach Gallery and "Jerusalem: Actual and Possible," the 9th edition of the Jerusalem Show, with Jack Persekian, at Al-Ma`mal Contemporary Art Foundation. She was the Clark/Oakley Humanities Fellow in 2019-2020, and her research has been supported by the Palestinian American Research Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, and the Barakat Trust, among others.
