The Hajji Baba Research Fellowship Committee has unanimously chosen Sarah Molina as its 2023/24 Hajji Baba Club Research Fellow. Molina is a fifth-year PhD candidate in the history of art and architecture at Harvard University and her dissertation is titled ‘The Poetics of Space: How Safavid Carpets Shaped the Early Modern Islamic World (1539-1672)’. It explores ‘how Safavid carpets mediated experiences of space in the early modern Islamic world... not only reconstituting the architectural contexts of these carpets but also examining how such objects actively produced new spaces’.