Gulnar Kheiralla(1909-1998)
- Actress
Born on the Oglala Sioux reservation, the daughter of an Egyptian-born
medical doctor and a Baltimore native of German ancestry, Gulnar
Khieralla finished high school in Chicago at the age of fifteen and
would subsequently earn a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago's
Oriental Institute, specializing in Islamic art. In a teaching career of
over thirty years, culminating as head of the art department at Florida
State University, she wrote a number of books and papers and also
served as president of the Southeastern College Art Conference in 1958.
She was married to Gerry Bosch, a noted artist.
