The Cambridge Shahnama Centre for Persian Studies

Theresa is an Art History graduate of the University of St Andrews, where her master's dissertation argued that the visual idioms in the Timurid Mi'rajnama shape religious space and won a prize at the Symposia Iranica in 2019. She is currently pursuing a PhD at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich under the supervision of Dr Ilse Sturkenboom, focusing on the figural marginalia in the Muraqqa-e Gulshan. As research assistant, she was teaching an undergraduate seminar about the image in Islamic art in the summer term of 2022. Her focus is on the Persianate arts of the book, and she enjoys working at the Shahnama Centre, being mainly involved with the Shahnama Project's database since February 2022.

As a consultant of the Shahnama Project, Theresa is updating the database, locating files and images, as well as checking entries or lines in the Shahnama. She has also been working for an art dealer of medieval and folk art since 2013 and has recently joined an auction house in Vienna, due to her particular fondness of object-based approaches and handling of a variety of objects. In the future, Theresa hopes to be involved with museums, libraries, and other art-related institutions particularly in the field of Islamic arts.