During the Spring 2026 semester, HIAA's Adrienne Minassian Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture Margaret Graves will be in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University as the Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Member in the School of Historical Studies. At the IAS, she will work on her book tentatively titled Technologies of Impress: The Poetics of Absence and the Limits of Art History, about the instruments of impress: stamps, seals, punches, dies, moulds, and matrices. Her book explores craft histories and their reflections in Islamicate intellectual history, as well as the challenges these technologies present to art history.
This marks Graves' second residence at the IAS, the first being in 2015-16 while working on her first publication, Arts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam (Oxford University Press, 2018), which won the 2019 book prize of the International Center of Medieval Studies and the 2021 Karen Gould prize from the Medieval Academy of America.