Zainab Bahrani 
Representative, Columbia University, United States
Professor Zainab Bahrani holds the Edith Porada chair of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. She is the author of several books, including Women of Babylon ( 2001), The Graven Image (2003) and Rituals of War (2008), which won the American Historical Association’s James Henry Breasted Prize. Her book, The Infinite Image: Art, Time and the Aesthetic Dimension in Antiquity (2014) won the Lionel Trilling Prize in 2015. And last year she published her new textbook, Art of Mesopotmia (London: Thames and Hudson Press). She is also the editor and co-author of several other volumes written to accompany exhibitions that she has co-curated. Notable among them are the exhibitions Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire 1753-1914 (Istanbul 2011) and Modernism and Iraq (New York, 2009).
She received her MA and Ph.D. degrees from New York University. And she is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards for her research including grants from the Getty Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and a 2003 Guggenheim award. She has been the Slade Professor at the Oxford University in England and Leichter Professor at University of Vienna in Austria. She is also currently the Director of the Columbia University field project, Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments.