Melanine Michailidis
Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow in Art History, presented in March a paper entitled “Pilgrims and Patrons: Ziyarat under the Samanids at Bavandids” at the British Museum at the conference “People of the Prophet’s House: Art, Architecture and Shi’ism in the Islamic World.” She also recently presented a paper entitled “From Religious Complex to Uzbek National Symbol: The Gur-i Amir in Samarqand” at the Society of Architectural Historians conference in Pasadena.