Ark Radio Podcasts

Dede Fairchild Ruggles is Professor and Debra L. Mitchell Chair in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she also holds appointments in Art History, Architecture, Medieval Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, and Gender and Women's Studies. She is the author/editor of numerous books on Islamic gardens, architectural patronage, and heritage, has appeared in many television documentaries about Islamic art, and is current art and architecture field editor for the multi-volume third edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam. She will be discussing her book Tree of Pearls.