Position:
Lecturer in Persian Studies
Faculty / College Address:
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Email:
farniyaz.zaker@ames.ox.ac.uk
Farniyaz Zaker is an artist and lecturer in Persian Studies and Azerbaijani at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Zaker’s research and practice deal with the history and theory of architecture and textiles with regard to bodily, societal, spatial and linguistic practices in Iran. In 2015, Farniyaz completed her DPhil in Fine Art at the University of Oxford with the support of St John’s College’s Lamb and Flag Graduate Scholarship. Besides teaching at the Ruskin School of Art and the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, she was a visiting lecturer at the Department of Asian and African Studies at the National Research University - Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg in 2017. In 2018, she was a visiting Research Fellow at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies and a Junior Teaching Fellow at the Ashmolean Museum’s Karsis Fellowship Programme.
http://farniyazzaker.com
