Talinn Grigor is a professor of art history in the department of Art and Art History at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on 18th- to 20th-century architectural and art histories through postcolonial, race, feminist, and critical theories, grounded in Iran, Armeno-Iran, Armenia, and Parsi India. Her books include The Persian Revival (2021) (winner of the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award), Contemporary Iranian Art (2014), Building Iran (2009), and Persian Kingship and Architecture (2015), coedited with Sussan Babaie. Grigor has received fellowships from the National Gallery of Art, Getty Research Institute, Cornell’s Humanities Center, Princeton’s Persian Center, MIT’s Aga Khan Program, SSRC, and Persian Heritage and Calouste Gulbenkian foundations. Her last book, coauthored with Houri Berberian, is The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979 (2025). Her current book project, The Hyphenated Architect, examines the pivotal role of ethnically Armenian architects and artists in the proliferation of the Modern Movement in Iran, and across Europe and Asia.
Talinn Grigor
Guest Speaker
Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Art History, University of California, Irvine
