Notes on Layla Diba

• Layla Diba, adjunct professor of the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture
• Formerly Associate curator, Islamic art, Asian Art Department, The Brooklyn Museum B.A.
• Phi Beta Kappa, Wellesley College
• M.A., Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. 1994
• Visiting Faculty at the Bard School.
• Diba, Layla (ED.) Royal Persian Paintings The Qajar Epoch 1785 - 1925. Co-ed. Maryam Ekhtiar. 1998. essays by B.W. Robinson. London : I.B. Tauris ; Brooklyn, NY : In association with Brooklyn Museum of Art : 1998
• Diba, Layla Clothing. In the Safavid and Qajar Periods, Encyclopedia Iranica, ed. Ehsan Yarshater, v.5, pp.785-808. Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa CA. 1992
• Bier, C. Diba, Layla (contributor) Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart, Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran. Washington: Textile Museum 1987
• Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran, l6th-l9th Centuries Edited by Carol Bier. Washington, D.C.: The Textile Museum, 1987. xvi, 336 p.A Review by Michael Craig Hillmann
• Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch, 1785-1925
  by Layla S. Diba (Editor), Maryam Ekhtiar (Editor), B. W. Robinson (Editor),
  Hardcover: 144 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.18 x 12.12 x 10.21
  Publisher: I.B. Tauris ; (December 1998)
  ISBN: 1860642551