All graduate students in Medieval Studies

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...

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...

Research interests: Iberian literature of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modernity. Travel narratives and early cartography. Connections between mental and narrative structures.

History of Ethics, Education, Politics and Society, Theology, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Comparative Literature, with sources in Italian, French, Latin, Ancient Greek, Arabic, emphasis on Renaissance Italy, placed in longue durée global perspective

Omar is interested in Mamluk agrarian law, practice, and administration. His interests include legal history, peasant history, and agrarian studies. 

Interests: Old English literature, Poetry, Manuscript studies

Reed is interested in textual, archaeological, and scientific approaches to the history of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.  His research focuses on migration and identity (religious, political, and ethnic) in the Late Antique Western...