Talinn Grigor, Ph.D.

Books

• The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979. Coauthored with Houri Berberian (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2025)
• The Persian Revival: The Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021).
• Winner of Saidi-Sirjani Book Award from the Association of Iranian Studies, 2022
• Winner of Honorable Mention by Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University
• Contemporary Iranian Art: From the Street to the Studio (Chicago: Reaktion Books/University of Chicago Press, 2014)
• Building Iran: Modernism, Architecture, and National Heritage under the Pahlavi Monarchs (New York: Periscope, 2009)
• Persian Kingship and Architecture: Strategies of Power in Iran from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis, co-edited with Sussan Babaie (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015)

Articles

• “Who is the Diasporic Artist? Intentionality Markers and the Centrifugality of Armenian Art History,” The Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, special 50th Anniversary Issue, vol. 30 (2025).
• “Suitcase Artifacts as Narrative Knowledge: Of Feminist Interventions in Irano-Armenian Diaspora(s) in Motion,” Études arméniennes contemporaines (2025).
• “Nektar Papazian Andreeff,” “Emma Hakopian Grigorian,” and “Victoria Ohanjanian,” in The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture 1960–2020, eds. Lori Brown and Karen Burns. Oxford: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2026.
• “Pedagogical Realignment and Hyphenated Historians of Qajar Architecture: Vrdanis Eiwziwkʻchean and Kavasji Kiash in Dialogue,” in Islamic Art History and the Global Turn: Theory, Method, Practice, eds. Hala Auji and Radha Dalal. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025, 54-77.
• “Leisure Architecture and the Aesthetics of the Pahlavi ‘Modern Middle Class’,” in Political, Social and Cultural History of Modern Iran: Essays in Honour of Ervand Abrahamian, eds. Houchang Chehabi. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025, Chapter 15, 378-398.
• “Culinary Dabbles in Modern Iranian Art,” in Persian Feasts: Recipes & Stories from a Family Table, eds. Laya Khadjavi, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller, and Lila Charif. New York: Phaidon Press, 2024, 238-243.
• “Ties That Bind: The Armenian Diaspora of Modern Iran,” coauthored with Houri Berberian, a special issue of 125th-anniversary of Hairenik Newspaper. Watertown, MA: Hairenik Press, 92-94.
• “Time of Historicism, Print Revival, and Parsi Patronage of Architecture, 1887–1936,” Journal of Iranian Studies 55/3 (June 2022).
• “Pictorial Modernity and the Armenian Women of Iran,” co-authored with Houri Berberian, Journal of Iranian Studies 55/2 (April 2022): 463-500.
• “Amateur Aesthetics as State Narrative in Iranian Martyrdom,” Third Text 34/1, special issue on Amateurism Across the Arts, guest eds. Julia Bryan-Wilson & Benjamin Piekut (2020): 93-109.
• “Freemasonry and Architecture of Persian Revival, 1843-1933,” in The Mystery of Masonry Brought to Light:  Freemasonry and the Visual Arts from the Eighteenth Century until Now, eds. Reva Wolf and Alisa Luxenberg (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), 159-179
• “The Middle East: 1914-present,” in Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture, 21st edition (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, Royal Institute of British Architects, and the University of London, 2019), 869-889
• “’They have not changed since 2,500 years ago’: Art, Archeology, and Modernity in Iran,” in Unmasking Ideology: The Vocabulary, Symbols, and Legacy of Imperial and Colonial Archaeology, eds. Bonnie Effros and Guolong Lai (Los Angeles: UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2018), 121-146
• “Me’mari dar siasat, siasat dar me’mari: aghaliyat-hay-e mazhabi va bahs-e me’mari-ye nogara dar iran-e gharn-e bistom, [Politics in Architecture, Architecture in Politics: Religious Minorities and Architectural Discourse in 20th-Century Iran],” translated from English to Persian by Greg Grigorian, in Persian Language Quarterly Journal, Payman 79 (Tehran, Fall 2017), 18-53
• “Persian Architecture Revival in British Raj and Qajan Iran,” Journal of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 36/3 (2016): 384-397
• “Kings and Traditions in Différance: Antiquity Revisited in post-Safavid Iran,” in The Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, rubric of Modernity, Empire, Colony and Nation (1650-1950), eds. Gulru Necipoglu and Barry Flood (Blackwell Companions to Art History series, 2017)
• “The Thing We Love(d): Little Girls, Inanimate Objects, and the Violence of Systems.”  From dossier of essays organized by Pamela Karimi and Nasser Rabbet on “The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: From Napoleon to ISIS” in Aggregate (2016)
• “Gendered Politics of Persian Art: Arthur Pope and his Partner,” in Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art, ed. Yuka Kadoi (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 47-73
• “What Art Does: Methodological Privileging of Agency and Art History’s Global Dispute in 1901,’ in In the Wake of the Global Turn: Propositions for an ‘Exploded’ Art History without Borders, eds. Jill Casid and Aruna D’Souza (Williamstown, Mass.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2013), 126-42
• “Shifting Gaze: Iranian Architecture from Superpower to Semi-colony,” in Architecturalized Asia: Mapping the  Continent through History, eds. Vimalin Rujivacharakul, Hazel Hahn, Ken Tadashi Oshima, and Peter Christensen (Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press, 2013), 217-30
• “King’s White Walls: Modernism and Bourgeois Architecture,” in Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah: The Pahlavi State, New Bourgeois Culture and the Creation of a Modern Society in Iran, eds. Bianca Devos and Christoph Werner, Iranian Studies series (London: Routledge, 2013), 95-117
• “Parsi Patronage of the Urheimat,” Getty Research Journal 2 (2010): 53-68
• “Orient oder Rom? Qajar ‘Aryan’ Architecture and Strzygowski’s Art History,” The Art Bulletin (Sept 2007): 562-90
• “Preserving the Modern Antique: Persepolis ‘71,” Future Anterior: Journal of Historical Preservation History Theory Criticism, Columbia University 2/1 (Summer 2005): 22-29
• “Recultivating ‘Good Taste’: The early Pahlavi Modernists and their Society for National Heritage,” Journal of Iranian Studies 37/1 (March 2004): 17-45
• “Of Metamorphosis: Meaning on Iranian Terms,” Third Text 17/3 (Sept 2003): 207-25