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: Encountering the Miraculous: Materiality and the Production of Hope among Coptic Christians in Egypt
Program: History
Dissertation Title: What Happens When Rebellions End? Kizilbas Communities of the Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Program: History
Dissertation Title: A View from Cairo: History of Egyptian Foreign Relations in Southeast Asia from Nasser to Mubarak
Program: Anthropology
Academic Interests: [on leave 2007-2008] Specifically: Islamic and other non-western universalisms, processed and grounded through experiences around war (Afghanistan, Bosnia, elsewhere). Broadly: political theory of imperialism, war and international law, human rights (practice & critique), Israel/Palestine.
Program: History
Dissertation Title: Applying Ottoman rule in the Central Balkans: Evrenos Beg and his sons, late 14th-15th centuries
Program: History
Dissertation Title: The Ottoman Reaction to the Greek War of Independence
Program: History
Dissertation Title: State and Society in the Marketplace: The Case of Early Ottoman Bursa (1479-1492)
Program: History
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: Contours of Community: Migrants from Iran in the Indian Ocean, 1688-1950
Program: History
Dissertation Title: Ottoman Methods of Conquest: Legal Imperialism and the City of Aleppo, 1480:1570
Program: History of Art and Architecture
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