Professor Sheila Blair

Sheila Blair shares the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professorship of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College and the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair in Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University with her husband and colleague Jonathan Bloom. Author, co-author and editor of dozens of books and hundreds of articles on all aspects of Islamic art, she is particularly interested in the arts of the Mongol period and the uses of writing.

Sheila Blair shares the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professorship of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College and the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair in Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University with her husband and colleague Jonathan Bloom. Author, co-author and editor of dozens of books and hundreds of articles on all aspects of Islamic art, she is particularly interested in the arts of the Mongol period and the uses of writing. See less