Program: History
Dissertation Title: Culture and Authority in an Andalusian Hinterland: The Case of Islamic Murcia.
Academic Interests: Early Islamic cultural history, particularly in the Umayyad and Abbasid periods
Program: Anthropology
Academic Interests: Magic, jinn possession, and the occult sciences in Iran. Mystics and mystical biographies. Islamic Philosophy. Religious commodities (production, circulation, consumption). Aesthetics of vulgarity and kitsch. Notions of rationality and superstition. Political economy. The relationship between all the above.
Program: Anthropology
Dissertation Title: Cultivating Mystery: Miracles and the Coptic Moral Imaginaire
Program: History
Dissertation Title: Kirkuk, 1918-1968: Oil and the Politics of Identity in an Iraqi City.
Program: Anthropology
Dissertation Title: Islam, Liberalism, and the Struggle to Define Human Nature: Revivalism and Religious Scholarship in Modern Egypt
Program: History
Dissertation Title: Self and Other in the Fifteenth Century: Laonikos Chalkokondyles and Byzantine Intellectual Tradition
Program: History
Dissertation Title: Friends Fall Apart: Relations between Egypt and India from1952-1970
Program: History
Dissertation Title: Applying Ottoman Rule in the Balkans: Evrenos Beg and his Descendants
Program: History
Dissertation Title: Poetry, Diplomacy and The Languages of Political Conduct in Late 17th-Century Ottoman Society: The Story of Rami Mehmed Efendi (1654-1708)
Program: History
Dissertation Title: The Ottoman Responses to the Greek War of Independence
Program: History
Dissertation Title: External Influences on Indigenous Anti-Imperial Influence in the British Empire's Aden Colony.
Academic Interests: Modern Middle Eastern history, specifically the political and economic history of the Levant and Iraq focusing on the colonial period
Program: History
Dissertation Title: The Reception of European Law, Origins of Islamic Legal Revivalism, and Transformations in Islamic Jurisprudence in Egypt, 1876-1960
Program: History
Dissertation Title: Migrants, Monikers and Manners: Iran and the Persianate World, 1722-1835
Program: History
Dissertation Title: Pleasure, Leisure, or Vice? Public Morality in Imperial Cairo 1882-1952
Program: History of Art and Architecture
Dissertation Title: Licit Magic the Touch and Sight of Islamic Talismanic Scrolls
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