Kirsten Scheid works at the disjuncture of anthropology and art history. Her research and teaching interests are the Aesthetics, Art Historiography and Theory, Modernization and Cosmopolitanism, Affect, and Elites. She has conducted field and archival research since 1992 in Lebanon and Palestine. Kirsten has also contributed to the art community by curating, archiving, and founding both a cultural resource center and an Arabic children’s books line. She is an Associate Professor at the American University of Beirut, and she holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University in Anthropology and a B.A. magna cum laude in Art History from Columbia University.