Professor Jerrilynn Dodds is Harlequin Adair Dammann Chair in Islamic Studies at Sarah Lawrence College in the USA. She has a BA from Barnard College and an MA and PhD from Harvard University. Her work has centred on issues of artistic interchange—in particular, among Christians, Jews, and Muslims—and how groups form identities through art and architecture. Dodds has a special interest in the arts of Spain and the history of architecture. She is the author of Architecture and Ideology in Early Medieval Spain and NY Masjid: The Mosques of New York and co-author of Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture, among other books and publications. In 2021, Jerri Dodds will take up the Slade Professorship of Fine Arts at the University of Oxford.