About
Holley Ledbetter is a PhD candidate in pre-modern Islamic art and architecture. Her primary field of research is Fatimid art and architecture, with a focus on figural representation, the intersections of race and gender, and representations of the enslaved in the Fatimid world. Her dissertation project, Wonder, Image, and the Fatimids, argues that a network of wondrous objects and architectures were created at the Fatimid court to legitimize the emerging dynasty. Holley also pursues research in cultural exchange between the Islamic world and the Vikings. She recently contributed to The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art conference volume (forthcoming, Yale UP, 2021) with an essay entitled "Exchange and Alteration: The Viking Afterlives of Samanid Silver." She was recently awarded a Fulbright-Hays fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year.
