About

Amanda Phillips earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago, a master's from the University of Massachusetts and a doctorate from the University of Oxford's Khalili Research Centre for the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East (2011). She has held two Fulbright Research Scholarships in Turkey, a fellowship at the Center for Anatolian Civilizations in Istanbul, a British Academy fellowship at the University of St Andrews (UK), and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Turkey. She held a research position at the Berlin Museum of Islamic Art as part of a Kunsthistorisches Institut project from 2010 to 2012, and a Marie Curie - Gerda Henkel fellowship at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham from 2012 to 2014. She began teaching at the University of Virginia in 2015. She now serves on the board of Bloomsbury 's Material Culture of Art and Design series, and has previously served as an officer for the Historians of Islamic Art Association (2017-19).  At the University of Virginia, she was a fellow at the Institute for the Humanities and Global Cultures and a Mead Honors Teaching Fellow. Since summer 2023, she has served as the Director of Graduate Studies in Art and Architectural History.