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Alexa Herlands

University of Chicago

Occupation

Graduate Student (Doctoral)

Contact

Primary Phone: 6319421410

Discipline

History

Sub Areas

Andalusi Studies

Islamic Studies

Anti-Racism

7th-13th Centuries

Geographic Areas of Interest

Spain

All Middle East

Specialties

Medieval/Early Modern Iberia & North Africa

Race, Astrology, Climatology, Occult

Languages

Spanish (advanced)

Arabic (intermediate)

French (elementary)

Catalan (elementary)

Education

MTS | 2019 | Divinity School | Harvard University

BA | 2017 | History | Haverford College

Abstracts

Wonder and Race in Zakarīyā al-Qazwīnī’s ʻAjāʼib al-Makhluqat wa-gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt The Islamic West between Whiteness and Blackness: Climatological Racism in The Geography of Ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī