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Talinn Grigor
Talinn Grigor is Professor of Art and Architectural History at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on late 18th- to 20th-century architectural and art histories through postcolonial, race, feminist, and critical theories grounded in Iran, Armeno-Iran (Persarmenia), Armenia, and Parsi India. An MIT alumnus (1998 & 2005), her books include the winner of the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award, The Persian Revival (2021), Contemporary Iranian Art (2014), Building Iran (2009), and Persian Kingship and Architecture (2015), coedited with Sussan Babaie. Coauthored with Houri Berberian, The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979 (Stanford University Press, 2025) is her most recent book. 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, as well as the Persian Heritage, Roshan, and Calouste Gulbenkian foundations. Her current book project, The Hyphenated Architect, examines the role of Iran’s minorities, particularly ethnically Armenian architects and artists, in the global networks and proliferation of the Modern Movement.
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Introduction1With changes and additions, this essay is a section from my articles, published under the title “Leisure Architecture and the…
