Alex Dika Seggerman is an associate professor of art history at Rutgers University-Newark. She received her doctorate from Yale in 2014 in the history of art. Before arriving at Rutgers, she held postdoctoral fellowships at Smith College, Hampshire College, and Yale University. Her scholarship investigates the intersection of Islam and modernism in art history. She is the author of Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary (University of North Carolina Press, 2019) and co-editor of Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean (Indiana University Press, 2022).
Dr Seggerman’s work has been supported by the Historians of Islamic Art Association, the American Research Center in Egypt, the Barakat Foundation, the Millard Miess Fund, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. She was the 2023-2024 Patricia and Phillip Frost Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Museum of Asian Art.
