Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Art History
- Islamic Art & Architecture
- Modern Middle East
- Persian Studies
Biography
Hoda Nedaeifar is an art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art and visual culture, with a particular focus on Iranian photography. She received her PhD in Art History from Indiana University, where her dissertation investigated the institutionalization, circulation, and artistic legacies of photographic images produced during and after the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988).
Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto's Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies, Nedaeifar is developing a book manuscript based on her doctoral research. Her scholarly work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and is forthcoming in edited volumes. Beyond academia, she has actively engaged in museum practice, having held a fellowship at the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) in New York and contributed to projects at institutions such as the Aga Khan Museum and the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art in Honolulu, Hawaii.