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Kathryn Hain
Northeast Community College
Occupation
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Contact
1910 N Highway 14
Marquette NE 68854
United States
ABOUT
Dr. Kathryn Hain comes to academia after seventeen years in Jerusalem and Amman where she served local Arab churches in teacher training and literature distribution. She earned her PhD in History of the Middle East at the University of Utah. Her MA in Middle Eastern Cultures and Religions from Jerusalem University College/Hebrew University also informs her work. Her research focuses on the slave trade of European women to India, China, and the Abbasid Empire and the social history of their lives in their new milieu. She currently writes and teaches online for community colleges.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
7th-13th Centuries
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Numismatics
World History
Minorities
Christian Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Palestine
Mediterranean Countries
All Middle East
Specialties
Slave Trade In Women In Classical Period
Eastern Christianity
Cultural Transmission By Medieval Slaves
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
American Sign Lang (intermediate)
Education
DrPH | 2016 | History | University of Utah
MA | 2008 | Middle East Studies | Jerusalem University College
Abstracts
Concubines as Commodity: Europe's Export of Slave Women to the Muslim World in the 8th-9th Centuries The Chinese Connection: T'ang influence on Abbasid royal household slavery The end of harem slavery in the Mediterranean Muslim World....or not. Unwelcomed freedom: What do you do when you dismantle a royal harem?