Faculty and Graduate Assistants
FACULTY
NANCY UM is Professor of Art History at Binghamton University. Her research explores the Islamic world from the perspective of the coast, with a focus on material, visual, and built culture on the Arabian Peninsula and around the rims of the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. She is the author of The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port (University of Washington Press, 2009) and Shipped but not Sold: Material Culture and the Social Order of Trade during Yemen's Age of Coffee (University of Hawai’i Press, 2017). She has led workshops on various topics related to digital art history, such as data visualization for humanists, approaches to digital mapping, and issues in digital publishing. http://nancyum.com