She holds a Ph.D. in Islamic Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles (2011) and a Master’s Degree in Art History from Williams College in Massachusetts (2004). Dr. Overton was previously Curator of Islamic Art at the Doris Duke Foundation of Islamic Art, Research Assistant in the Art of the Middle East Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and an Instructor and Teaching Assistant at UCLA. She is the recipient of a University of California President’s Fellowship and a Theodore Rousseau Fellowship from the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is currently preparing a book project on artistic exchange between Iran and the Deccan, c. 1400-1600.