Participant Info
- First Name
- Rachel
- Last Name
- Parikh
- Country
- United States
- State
- rachel.parikh@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Worcester Art Museum
- Website URL
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-parikh/
- Keywords
- History of Art, South Asian Art History, Islamic Art History, South Asian Arms and Armor, Islamic Arms and Armor
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Rachel Parikh is a curator, scholar, and author of South Asian and Islamic Art, with an expertise in paintings, illustrated manuscripts, and arms and armor. She currently serves as the Marguerite S. Hoffman and Thomas W. Lentz Curator of Islamic Art at the Dallas Museum of Art. She also serves as the Deputy Director for the Dunhuang Foundation. Prior to her current positions, Parikh worked at the Worcester Art Museum; Harvard Art Museums; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Art Institute of Chicago. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2014. Parikh has lectured nationally and internationally, as well as published extensively. Her first book, The Khalili Falnamah: The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art (London: The Nour Foundation) was published in 2022. She is currently working on her second book, which focuses on history of arms and armor in India.
- Recent Publications
“Forging a Legacy: The Jambiya, Yemen’s Iconic Weapon”, in Orientations, 54:3, March/April 2023.
The Khalili Falnamah: The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art (London: The Nour Foundation), 2022.
“Might and the Menagerie: The Role of Animals in South Asian Arms and Armour,” in Orientations, 52:2, March/April 2021.
“Power and Piety: Islamic Talismans on the Battlefield,” with Maryam Ekhtiar, in Islamic Occultism in Theory and Practice, eds. Francesca Leoni, Liana Saif, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Farouk Yahya (Leiden: Brill), 2020.
“Faith and Fate: The Khalili Falnama (MSS 979) and Shi’i Identity in Golconda,” in Iran and the Deccan: Persian Art, Culture and Talent in Circulation, ed. Keelan Overton (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), 2020.
“‘The King’s Boon Companion’: Falconry in Mughal Imperial Portraiture from Akbar to Azam Shah,” in Raptor and Falconry Depictions Throughout The Millennia on a Global Scale, vol. II, ed. by Oliver Grimm, in collaboration with Karl-Heinz Gersmann and Anne-Lise Tropato (Hamburg: Wachholtz Murmann Publishers), 2020.
“Flights of Fancy: Falconry in Iranian Art from the 12th to 19th Century,” in Raptor and Falconry Depictions Throughout The Millennia on a Global Scale, vol. II, ed. by Oliver Grimm, in collaboration with Karl-Heinz Gersmann and Anne-Lise Tropato (Hamburg: Wachholtz Murmann Publishers), 2020.
- Media Coverage
- https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-7-curators-instagram-provide-access-museums-quarantine
- Social Media
- @rachel.parikh
- Country Focus
- India, Iran, Turkey
- Expertise by Geography
- Anatolia, Middle East, South Asia, West Asia
- Expertise by Chronology
- Pre-17th century, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Art & Architectural History, Book History, Material Culture, Museums
