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Dr. Blair Fowlkes Childs
MENA Archaeology & Antiquities
Blair Fowlkes Childs is a specialist in Roman and Greek art, archaeology, and religion across the ancient Middle East, including Arabia, with extensive curatorial, publication, and university teaching experience.
Blair Fowlkes Childs is a specialist in Roman and Greek art, archaeology, and religion across the ancient Middle East, including Arabia, with extensive curatorial, publication, and university teaching experience. At the Katonah Museum of Art, she curated Stories of Syria's Textiles: Art and Heritage across Two Millennia (2023–24), supported by the Barakat Trust, Coby Foundation, and Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she co-curated the award-winning 2019 international exhibition The World between Empires: Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East.
Her current book project examines Syrian and Phoenician sanctuaries in imperial Rome. She holds a fellowship at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, where she guest-curated "Photographs from Dura-Europos: 1922–2022 and Onward" for the Yale-French Excavations' centennial. She has taught at Royal Holloway University of London, Columbia University, Yale University, and New York University.
Fowlkes Childs holds a BA from Princeton University and an MA and PhD from NYU's Institute of Fine Arts in classical art and archaeology, with a minor in Islamic art and architecture. She speaks French and Italian.
Blair Fowlkes Childs is a specialist in Roman and Greek art, archaeology, and religion across the ancient Middle East, including Arabia, with extensive curatorial, publication, and university teaching experience. At the Katonah Museum of Art, she curated Stories of Syria's Textiles: Art and Heritage across Two Millennia (2023–24), supported by the Barakat Trust, Coby Foundation, and Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she co-curated the award-winning 2019 international exhibition The World between Empires: Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East.
Her current book project examines Syrian and Phoenician sanctuaries in imperial Rome. She holds a fellowship at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, where she guest-curated "Photographs from Dura-Europos: 1922–2022 and Onward" for the Yale-French Excavations' centennial. She has taught at Royal Holloway University of London, Columbia University, Yale University, and New York University.
Fowlkes Childs holds a BA from Princeton University and an MA and PhD from NYU's Institute of Fine Arts in classical art and archaeology, with a minor in Islamic art and architecture. She speaks French and Italian.
