Dilrabo Tosheva is a historian of medieval art, architecture, and visual culture, with a focus on the artistic production of West Asia, the Turkic and Persianate worlds, and the broader regions of the so-called Silk Roads. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from universities in Uzbekistan, an M.Sc. in Architectural History from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and a Ph.D. from the University of Queensland, where she completed a dissertation on architectural transformations in pre-Mongol Central Asia.
She is currently an Aga Khan Fellow in Islamic Architecture at Harvard University. While developing her first book project based on her doctoral research, she is also launching a new study on the Islamization of the Chaghatai Khanate during the Mongol era.
