Natasha Shoory

Natasha Shoory holds a PhD from the University of Durham in collaboration with ENS Paris-Ulm, under the supervision of Dr Tom Stammers, Dr Charlotte Guichard, and Professor Thomas Wynn. Her thesis, From the Footnotes to the Focus: Reframing Women’s Collections of Art in Eighteenth-Century Paris, explored the notion of ‘gendered taste’ and determined that women’s […]

Sarah Piram

She is an art historian (PhD, Université Paris Nanterre) specialising in the Islamic world. Her dissertation on the history of Iranian heritage led to a position at the Musée du Louvre as research associate in the Department of Islamic Art, 2015–2018. She was then named Iran Heritage Foundation Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum […]