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Thadeus Dowad

Thadeus Dowad is an assistant professor in the Art History Department and the Crown Junior Chair in Middle East Studies at Northwestern. He specializes in the art and architectural history of the Ottoman Empire and Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, with an emphasis on the transregional impacts of capitalism, empire-building, slavery, and revolutionary politics on metropolitan and colonial artistic cultures. He is particularly interested in the history of French imperialism in Islamic West Asia and North Africa as the framework for an integrated history of art before World War I. Other areas of research and teaching include transcultural histories of portraiture; European and Ottoman Orientalisms; queerness in Islamic art; and the history of turquerie."