Dr.  Aimée Froom is the curator of "Art of the Islamic Worlds" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Lecturer at Rice University. In 2015, she reinstalled and expanded the MFAH permanent galleries and the al-Sabah collection; there are now over 300 works of Islamic art on view. Formerly, the Hagop Kevorkian Associate Curator of Islamic Art, Brooklyn Museum, Dr. Froom also has consulted for museums including the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto; the British Museum, London, and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris. 
She’s taught undergraduate and graduate courses at Brown University, Bard Graduate Center for the Decorative Arts, Trinity College, American University of Paris, and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. 
Dr. Froom earned her BA from Brown University; her MA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. 
She’s the author of several books including her recent publications 

Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands – Selections from the Hossein Afshar Collection (Yale University Press, 2019), 
The Legacy of Persian Art (MFAH, 2017), and
Arts of Islamic Lands: Selections from The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait (MFAH, 2016).  

Most recently, Dr. Froom was selected into the prestigious annual fellowship at The Center for Curatorial Leadeership, a program that selects curators based on their curatorial achievements and their commitment to expanding audiences.