Kaveh Rafie has successfully defended his dissertation “Pleated Modernity: On the Anthropologization of Modern Art in Iran, 1941–1979.”

Kaveh

Kaveh's committee includes UIC Art History Professors Stimson and Archias, Norma Moruzzi, UIC Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women's Studies, Nicholas Brown, UIC Professor of English and Black Studies, and Peyman Vahabzadeh, Professor of Sociology, University of Victoria.

Comments from his committee included words like "brilliant," "original," "incisive" and "needed." Congratulations Kaveh!