Risham Majeed

Forthcoming:

  • “The Accidental Canon at the Museums of the Trocadéro,” in Canonicity Revisited, Joseph Siry and Claire Grace, eds. (Brepols, 2027).
  • Keene, Bryan and Risham Majeed, Global Medieval in the Museum (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2027).
  • “Busting the “Medieval” Busts at the Barnes Foundation,” in K. Boivin, L. Cook, and Z. Stewart, eds., Gothic Space: Studies in Celebration of Stephen Murray (Brill, 2025), pp. 505-522.

Select Publications:

  • “Byzantium in ‘Africa’” Review of Africa and Byzantium at the Met (2023-4) in American Journal of Archaeology, volume 129, number 1 (January 2025).  
PDF of ‘Byzantium in Africa’
  • Exhibition and literature review, Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa, which was held at the Block Museum at Northwestern and the Metropolitan Museum’s Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara (Art Bulletin, March 2021).
PDF of “Caravans and Sahel” Review
  • “Against primitivism: Meyer Schapiro’s Early Writings on African and Romanesque Art,” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 71/72 (2019), p. 1-17.
PDF of “Against Primitivism”
  • “ ‘Excuse me is this a church?’ Display as Content at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Journal of Museum Education (September 2017).
PDF of “Excuse me is this a church”