Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: 734-764-0314
Fax: 734-936-2679
Dept of Near Eastern Studies
University of Michigan
202 South Thayer Street
Ann Arbor
MI
48104
United States
ABOUT
Kathryn Babayan is Professor of Iranian History and Culture at the Departments of Middle East Studies and History. She is a social and cultural historian of the medieval and early modern Persianate world. She has published, Mystics, Monarchs and Messiahs: Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern Iran (2003), co-authored Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavi Iran, with Sussan Babaie, Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe, and Massumeh Farhad (2004), and co-edited two books Islamicate Sexualities: Translations Across Temporal Geographies of Desire with Afsaneh Najmabadi (2008), and An Armenian Mediterranean: Words and Worlds in Motion with Michael Pifer (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Mediterranean Perspectives, 2018). Her new book is The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021).
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Cultural Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Iranian Studies
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
13th-18th Centuries
Geographic Areas of Interest
Anatolia
Central Asia
Iran
Islamic World
Specialties
Gender & Sexuality
Safavid Hist
Sufism, Shi'ism, Heresy
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
Armenian (intermediate)
French (advanced)
Persian (native)
Russian (advanced)
Turkish (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 1993
| NE Stds
| Princeton U
Abstracts
The Adab of Reading and Collecting in Early Modern Isfahan
