Sussan Babaie is Reader in the history of Iranian and Islamic art and architecture at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
She is the author of Isfahan and Its Palaces: Statecraft, Shi‘ism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran (2008, paperback 2018), and co-author and editor of several books including The Mercantile Effect: On Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World During the 17th and 18th Centuries (2017), Persian Kingship and Architecture: Strategies of Power in Iran from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis (2014), Shirin Neshat (2013), and Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavid Iran (2004, paperback 2017). She is working on a book about the intersections between visual and gustatory taste in early modern Iran.
