Matthew Philip Canepa is an American historian of art, and archaeology; ^[1] as well as a writer and educator. He is a Professor of Art History and inaugural holder of the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran at the University of California, Irvine. ^[2]

Canepa received his PhD from the University of Chicago. Canepa is actively involved in UC Irvine's Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture. ^[2] According to Canepa's profile page at UC Irvine: "An historian of art, archaeology and religions his research focuses on the intersection of art, ritual and power in the eastern Mediterranean, Persia and the wider Iranian world". ^[2] Canepa is also affiliated to the faculty of the Classics department of the University of California, Irvine. ^[2] Canepa is, and has been, a fellow of numerous institutions, including the Society of Antiquaries of London, The Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), The American Council of Learned Societies, the German Archaeological Institute and Merton College ( University of Oxford). ^[2]

Selected publications

A selection of Canepa's works:

• Canepa, Matthew P. (2010). The Two Eyes of the Earth: Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ^{[3] [4]}
• Canepa, Matthew P. (2018). The Iranian Expanse: Transforming Royal Identity through Architecture, Landscape, and the Built Environment, 550 BCE–642 CE. University of California Press.
• Area advisor and editor for The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity (2018)

References