Collegiate Affiliation
Art History
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Johnathan W. Hardy is currently the Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow in the department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His research combines cutting edge digital technologies with traditional art historical and archaeological inquiry to explore the hidden depths of Western Asian visual culture. His main research area focuses on the art and architecture of the Sasanian Empire (224 - 650 CE) and its religious minorities. He is currently writing his dissertation titled Multivalent Identities: Art, Architecture, and Ritual between Religious Minorities and the Sasanian Aristocracy (224 - 650 CE). Johnathan Hardy is also the project manager for the joint Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art and TERRA Foundation Digital Humanities Initiative where he oversees and guides first time digital art history authors into publishing a DAH article with Panorama.