
Michelle Al-Ferzly
Glossary Manager
Michelle Al-Ferzly is a curator at the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Yale University, working with Islamic and Asian collections. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Art from the University of Michigan, where she completed a dissertation on the art of dining in the medieval Islamic world. Prior to joining the Beinecke, Michelle was a Research Associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she worked on the Africa & Byzantium exhibition and contributed to the show’s catalog.