CONTACT INFORMATION:
Associate Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
101 Temple Buell Hall
611 Taft Drive
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
| Office Telephone: | (217) 333-9279 |
| Office Fax: | (217) 244-4568 |
| Active email: | dfr1@uiuc.edu |
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SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Islamic art, architecture, and landscape history
Medieval Mediterranean architecture and landscape history
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.
Editor, Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies, SUNY Press, 2000.
Co-editor of Sight and Site in the Garden (issue of Journal of Garden History) with Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, vol. 14 (1994).
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
I deal with international languages of built form and visual representation as well as medieval Islamic Spain which was multi-lingual although the degree of linguistic breadth depended to a great degree on religion, class, and gender.
History of the Medieval Book:
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
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