Biography
Amelia Gallagher received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Islamic Studies of McGill University. Since coming to Niagara University in 2006, she has taught a variety of courses including Islam, Religion and Art, and Art of the Vatican which she conducts as a Study-Abroad course in Rome. She is also the director of Niagara University’s program in Art History with Museum Studies.
Latest Publications:
“Our Lady of Peace: John Joseph Lynch’s Pilgrimage to Niagara Falls.” Vincentian Heritage, Spring 2025.
“The Place of Material Objects within Alawi ziyara (Hatay Province, Turkey).” In Beyond Karbala, New Approaches to Shīʿī Materiality. Edited by Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke. Leiden: Brill, 2023.
“The Resurrection of Shah Ismail in Alevi-Bektashi Literature.” In The Renaissance of Shiʿi Islam in the 15th-17th Centuries. London: The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2022.