Jaimee Comstock-Skipp holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and obtained a first MA from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art (Massachusetts, USA), and a second MA from The Courtauld Institute of Art (London, UK), where she studied Mongol through Safavid book arts predominantly from Iran. She completed her PhD at Leiden University (2022) writing a dissertation on illustrated epic and biographical manuscripts of the Abu’l-Khayrids (Shaybanids), and their diplomatic exchanges between courts within Central Asia and the broader Turco-Persianate sphere encompassing Safavids, Ottomans, and Mughals. She has held visiting fellowships at the Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre (Oxford, UK) and the Warburg Institute (London, UK). She was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford between 2024—2026, and is a Junior Research Fellow tutoring in Persian at New College, Oxford. Her publications have examined 16th-century arts of the book in Iran and Central Asia; decorated elements on paper, textile, ceramic, and metal from these realms; and the historiography of Persian painting in the 20th-21st centuries.
