Dr. Barouti is currently a part-time faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Art History, Theory, and Criticism department. Most recently, she was a Brooks International Fellow at the Tate Modern’s curatorial department and a resident at the Delfina Foundation. More information about Dr. Barouti’s time at the Tate Modern can be found here. In 2022, she completed her PhD in the History of Art and Architecture at Boston University. Her project, “A Critical Moroccan Chronology: The National Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan Since 1946” was awarded Boston University’s Keith N. Morgan Dissertation Prize for the 2021-2022 academic year and her third chapter was the 2022 recipient of AMCA’s Rhonda A. Saad Prize for Best Paper in Modern and Contemporary Arab Art. Her work has been supported by a variety of grants including a Fulbright U.S. Student Fellowship, a U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholarship Program, American Institute of Maghrib Studies Grant, and a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, amongst others. Dr. Barouti is regularly invited to present her original research at institutions worldwide, including Harvard University, Brandeis University, NYU-Abu Dhabi, SOAS University of London. Working across five languages, Dr. Barouti has done curatorial work internationally at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, MFA Boston, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and USC Fisher Museum of Art. In 2019, she was selected to participate in the prestigious Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. She regularly publishes her writing for academic journals and contemporary arts magazines and serves as a consultant for artists and galleries. Currently, she is working on her first book project, set to be complete in the summer of 2024. Dr. Barouti’s research interests include histories of colonialism, decolonization movements, fine arts pedagogy, art in times of war, and modern art outside of the Euro-American canon of art history.