Margaret S. Graves is an art historian specializing in Islamic art and architecture, with a focus on material culture, craft production, and artistic exchange across the medieval Islamic world. She is a professor of art history at Indiana University Bloomington, where her research examines objects, artisans, and the circulation of artistic techniques across regions. Graves has written on ceramics, architecture, and questions of authenticity and attribution in historical objects. She is the author of Invisible Hands: Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islamic Ceramics, published by Princeton University Press in 2026, which studies workshop practices, imitation, and the role of makers in the history of Islamic ceramic production.