Graves, the Adrienne Minassian Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture in honor of Marilyn Jenkins-Madina and 24-25 Director of Graduate Study, has been awarded a fellowship by the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University (Spring 2026). There, Graves will be working on her next monograph, a book on moulding and metalcasting in premodern Islam and the challenges those practices pose to art history (The Poetics of Absence: Technologies of Impress and the Limits of Art History).

Professor Graves' most recent publication releases in February of 2026, entitled, Invisible Hands: Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islamic Ceramics (Princeton University Press). The book traces a history of forged and fabricated Islamic ceramics, their makers, and their unique role in colonial trade. Learn more here.

Published this past year, Graves also wrote “A Painting of a Painting and a Boy on a Bottle: Thresholds of Image in Early Modern Iran”, in Stephen J. Campbell and Stephanie Porras', eds, The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art (London/New York: Routledge, Dec 2024), pp. 412–430.

Finally, Graves gave invited lectures on her current research at the University of Wisconsin Madison, Princeton University, Columbia University, and the University of Chicago. She presented papers at the Historians of Islamic Art Association Biennial Symposium in April 2025 and the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting in May 2025.