Lecturer PSOE, Anthropology
School of Social Sciences

Archaeology; Middle East; Material Culture; Cultural Heritage; Islam

Fulbright Fellow (Syria)
Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford University

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University (2007-2009)

My research focuses on the archaeology and material culture of the Islamic world with particular attention to the ways in which religious traditions shape and are shaped by the lived landscape. More recently, I have also begun to work with Arabic manuscripts from Timbuktu with an interest in the ways that vernacular forms of heritage have shaped Muslim approaches and engagements with the past.

2014 “Other Monumental Lessons” for Drawing on Rocks, Gathering by the Water: Archaeological Fieldwork at Rock Reliefs, Sacred Springs, and Other Places, ed. by Ömür Harmansah. Oxbow.

2017 “Heritage Crusades: Saving the Past from the Commons,” International Journal of Islamic Architecture 6: 2, 367-386

Endangered Archives Program (2016), British Library, ($14000)

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Last updated
09/28/2017