Alessandra Amin

Alessandra Amin is a historian of modern art in the Arab world, currently serving as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities (2023–2024) at the Forum on Revolution. Previously affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles (2022), her research focuses on Palestinian painting and graphic arts from the mid-to-late 20th century, examining how aesthetic and philosophical currents mediate artists’ relationships to Palestine through gendered frameworks.

• Specializes in gendered dimensions of Palestinian futurities
• Supported by grants from the Center for Palestine Studies, Social Science Research Council, and U.S. Department of Education
• Contributions to Trans Asia Photography, MAVCOR Journal, Art Journal, and ARTMargins

Scientific Awards

• Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship

Her current work, Mother Figure: Art and the Palestinian Dream-State (1965–1982), analyzes the interplay of dreams and maternal imagery in Palestinian cultural production during the revolutionary era, exploring themes of mourning, resistance, and speculative belonging.