Amanda Phillips
Amanda Phillips received her doctorate in Islamic Art and Archaeology from the University of Oxford in 2011. After two years as a Max Planck Fellow at the Berlin Museum of Islamic Art, she is now a fellow at the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews, where she continues her work on the consumption of textiles and other household goods in the Ottoman and Islamic worlds. Her next book, Everyday Luxury (Köln, Walther König, 2014), takes a wide view of the visual and literary culture of the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a focus on the role of daily life in the formation of taste and transmission of style. Her most recent essay, ‘A Material Culture’, was awarded the 2012 Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize in Islamic Art and Culture.