Dr Sabrina Rahman

Having grown up in New Jersey, I earned a BA with High Honors in Art History and German Studies at Oberlin College before pursuing an MA and PhD in German Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. I have been the recipient of a number of research grants, including a Fulbright Award at the Institute of Art History, University of Vienna, and a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellowship at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Before coming to Exeter in 2016, I was Anniversary Research Fellow in Art and Design History at Northumbria University. My interdisciplinary research focuses on the intersection of design, class and ethnicity in Central and Eastern Europe, South Asia and the United Kingdom, and I am also interested in diaspora and migration studies, museum studies, and global cultures of housing.

I am happy to discuss research proposals on topics related to global design history (all periods); the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture, design and urbanism; post-colonial and decolonial visual culture; migration and diaspora studies; and museum studies.