Staci Gem Scheiwiller

Regional Officer – Central California

Staci Gem Scheiwiller is an assistant professor of Contemporary and Modern Art History at California State University Stanislaus. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2009. Her field is Modern and Contemporary Art with an emphasis in contemporary Iranian art and photography. Scheiwiller is focused on issues of modernity and modernism in Iran; during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is currently researching the constructions of gender, beauty, and sexuality in nineteenth-century Iranian photography and cinema. She has published in the journals Women: A Cultural Review and History of Photography, as well as in an exhibition catalogue on the Gledhill photographers of Santa Barbara.