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Dina A. Ramadan is Continuing Associate Professor of Human Rights and Middle Eastern Studies, and Faculty at the Center for Curatorial Studies. Concerned with the intersection of aesthetic and politics, her teaching and research are focused on modern and contemporary cultural production from the MENA, decolonial movements, labor, and migration. She received her PhD from the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University and was a EUME postdoctoral fellow at the Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien from 2013-14. Ramadan has contributed articles and reviews to Art Journal, Arab Studies Journal, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Review of Middle East Studies, Journal of Visual Culture, Middle East Research and Information Project, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art and others. She is author of The Education of Taste: Art, Aesthetics, and Subject Formation in Colonial Egypt (forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press) and co-editor (with Sarah Rogers) of The Borders of Art: Migration, Mobility, and Artistic Practice. She has served as senior editor of Arab Studies Journal since 2010. A founding member of the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey (AMCA), she participated in “Mapping Art Histories in the Arab World, Turkey & Iran”, a research project funded by the Getty Foundation. Ramadan is a 2023 recipient of The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and her writing on contemporary art has appeared in BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, frieze, e-flux Criticism, ArtReview, and Art Papers.