Shaharyar Zia is a PhD candidate at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC) working on late-medieval and early modern Islamic intellectual history. He is interested in the scholarly traditions of Firangī Maḥall, Shāh Walī Allāh...
Saskia Behrens focuses on comparative approaches to Irish literature, in particular the transmission and reception of Classical narratives in medieval Ireland, with an overarching interest in wider Indo-European cultural and linguistic transfer.
Saaleh is a PhD candidate in the joint History and Middle Eastern studies program, where he studies postclassical Hanafi legal theory, Persian philosophy, and procedural law in the Ottoman-Mughal empires. He earned his BA at Columbia University & also...
Andrew is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology interested in changes to rural life in medieval Ireland. He is a field archaeologist specializing in landscape archaeology and geophysical survey. Andrew is also the co-director of the Castles in Communities...
Sofía is a Ph.D. student in the English Department who studies romance and hagiography from the twelfth to the fourteenth century, focusing on material culture, fiction(ality), and the poetics of the impossible. Beyond the strictly medieval, her interests...
Carina Dreyer’s research interests lie at the intersection of the rational and transmitted sciences, Sufism, and Mongol and Mamluk social and intellectual history. Her master’s thesis Quṭb al‐Dīn al‐Shīrāzī and his political, religious, and intellectual...
Lydia Shahan is a PhD candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion, with a secondary field in Medieval Studies. She studies the history of Christianity in medieval Europe, focusing primarily on mystical and devotional literature. Broadly speaking...
Research interests: Iberian literature of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modernity. Travel narratives and early cartography. Connections between mental and narrative structures.
Research Interests: archaeology of the Roman empire and Late Antiquity; Greek and Roman religion; sanctuaries and sacred space; epigraphy and ancient graffiti; late ancient Christianity.
Dissertation Topic: Panhellenic sanctuaries in Late Antiquity
