Keelan Overton is an independent scholar and historian of Islamic art and architecture specializing in the eastern Islamic world from Iran to South Asia. She is author of "Book Culture, Royal Libraries, and Persianate Painting in Bijapur, circa 1580-1630" (Muqarnas, 2016) and "Filming, Photographing and Purveying in 'the New Iran: ' The Legacy of Stephen H. Nyman, ca. 1937-42" (in Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art, 2016).