Anthony Welch
UVic
Canada

Anthony Welch is professor of Islamic art and architecture at the University of Victoria. His research includes books on Iranian painting (Artists for the Shah, Yale University Press, 1976); Islamic Calligraphy (Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World, University of Texas Press, 1979); Arts of the Islamic Book (Cornell University Press, 1983); Shah 'Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan (Asia Society, 1973); and Collection of Islamic Art of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Geneva, 1972–1978. His edition of the Journal and Travels of Ambrosio Bembo was published by the University of California Press in 2007. His work over the past ten years has focused on Islamic architecture in India and has been published in Muqarnas, an Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, the Aga Khan Program at Harvard and M.I.T.

Martin Segger

Martin Segger is Director of Art Galleries and Collections at the University of Victoria and an adjunct professor in the Department of History in Art. He holds a B.A. in English Literature and a Diploma of Education (Secondary Curriculum) from the University of Victoria, and a Master of Philosophy in Renaissance Cultural Studies from the Warburg Institute, University of London, where he studied under Sir Ernst Gombrich. In 1982 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and 1999 a Fellow of the Canadian Museums Association. He has served as president of the Society of Architectural Historians, Pacific North West Chapter, and is currently President of the Commonwealth Association of Museums. He has consulted and taught historic preservation planning. His areas of academic research, teaching and curatorship are Canadian architectural history, international decorative arts, and museums studies.  He has lectured widely and written numerous books, exhibition catalogues, film scripts, and articles.

Nicholas DeCaro