Office: Dodd 200C
Phone: 310 206 6981
bierman@humnet.ucla.edu

Irene Bierman-McKinney is Professor of Art History. She received her MA in Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. She taught at Portland State University and the University of Washington before joining the faculty at UCLA. Professor Bierman-McKinney has received numerous research awards including those from Fulbright and Mellon, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has been a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington, D.C. and the Alexander White Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association, and on the Executive Committee of the American Research Center in Egypt. She has served on the Editorial Advisory Committee for the journals Muqarnas and the Art Bulletin. At UCLA she has served as Director of the Gustav von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies and been Chair of the Islamic Studies program. Currently she is Chair of the History-Art History Program. The author of numerous articles, her recent book, Writing Signs, The Fatimid Public Text was published by University of California Press, and her forthcoming book, Art and Islam is being published by Oxford University Press.