Art history professor Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh’s The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript from Genocide to Justice (Stanford University Press, February 2019) traces eight illustrated pages from a 13th-century Armenian manuscript that disappeared in 1920 to their purchase by the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1995. A 2010 lawsuit against the Getty demanding the pages be returned to the Armenian Church set off her search that is set against larger issues of the Armenian Genocide.

Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Davis. She researches the visual cultures of the Middle East, including issues of architectural preservation, museums, and cultural heritage.  She previously taught at Rice University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was the Aga Khan Career Development Professor in architectural history. Her first book, The Image of an Ottoman City: Architecture in Aleppo, received the book Award for urban history from the Society of Architectural Historians.

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