Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
History Department
Queens College, CUNY
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Queens
NY
11367
United States
ABOUT
I am the author of "Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies" (Edinburgh, 2012) and am currently completing a monograph entitled "Gypsies in the Medieval Islamic World," which will appear with I. B. Tauris. I am also co-editing with Dr. Boris Liebrenz an Aleppan silk weaver's diary covering the period 997-998 AH/1589-1590 CE.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Mamluk Studies
13th-18th Centuries
Minorities
Specialties
Historical Linguistics, Gypsies
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Persian (elementary)
French (advanced)
German (intermediate)
English (native)
Education
PhD
| 2008
| Near Eastern Studies
| University of Michigan
MA
| 2005
| Near Eastern Studies
| University of Michigan
BA
| 2003
| History & Near Eastern Studies
| Princeton university
Abstracts
Drug Overdose, Disability and Male Friendship in Mamluk Cairo
Public and Private Inscriptions of the Self in a 16th-Century Aleppan Craftsman’s Diary
