Avinoam Shalem (Hebrew: אבינועם שלם; born 1959) is the Riggio Professor of the History of the Arts of Islam at Columbia University.
[3] He worked for the Khalili Collections and taught at the University of Munich prior to joining the Columbia faculty in 2013.
[6][7] Shalem's research focuses on medieval Islamic, as well as Jewish and Christian art.
[9][10] He stepped down in fall 2021 and returned to his teaching career at Columbia.
[11][12] In 2022, Shalem received a grant from the Getty Foundation to direct the Black Mediterranean project, which reconsiders the history of the relationship between Africa and Europe by shedding light on African influences on Mediterranean cultures.