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Patricia Blessing

Associate Professor of Art & Art History

BioPatricia Blessing is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Stanford University. Blessing is the author of Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rūm, 1240–1330 (Ashgate, 2014) and Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2022). With Elizabeth Dospel Williams and Eiren Shea, she co-authored Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c. 300-1400 for the Cambridge Elements series Global Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Blessing’s work has been supported by the ANAMED Research Center for Anatolian Cultures, the Barakat Trust, the British Academy, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the International Center of Medieval Art, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and the Society of Architectural Historians.

Contact Info
- 355 ROTH WAY
- McMurtry Building
- STANFORD, California 94305
- (650) 736-8458 (office)
pblessin@stanford.edu

Web page:

https://art.stanford.edu/people/patricia-blessing

Alexandra Haselden Blum

Undergraduate, Art & Art History

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ahblum@stanford.edu

Christopher Bobonich

Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy and Professor, by courtesy, of Classics

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- 100-102H
- Stanford, California 94305-2155
Mail Code: 2155
- (650) 723-2547 (office)
(650) 723-0985 (fax)
bobonich@stanford.edu

Becky Bodurtha

Senior Lecturer of Theater and Performance Studies

BioBecky Bodurtha is a professional costume designer with regional, international and New York City credits. Recent credits include Drowing in Cairo (Potrero Stage), Felix Starro (Theatre Ma-Yi), Open (The Tank), 1000 Nights and One Day (Prospect Theatre Company), and Mr. Burns (NYU Gallatin). Other credits: Constellations (Wilma), The Strangest (East 4th Street), Among the Dead (Theatre Ma-Yi) Passover (Cherry Lane), The Wong Kids in the Secret of the Space Chupacabra, Go! (Theatre Ma-Yi), Livin’ La Vida Imelda (Theatre Ma-Yi), and This Lingering Life (HERE Arts). International credits include Anna in the Tropics (Repertory Philippines), Movement for Humanity and Africa’s Hope for the Ubumuntu Festival in Kigali, Rwanda. Becky is the resident costume designer for Vermont Shakespeare Festival where she recently designed Taming of the Shrew and Julius Caesar. She has served as an assistant costume designer on Broadway as well as on feature film.

Alongside her professional design work, Ms. Bodurtha has been an educator with 15 years of experience in teaching the new generation collaborative design and theatre making.

She received her MFA in Theatre Design from University of Iowa. Please visit her website at: www.beckybodurtha.com