Program in Early Cultures

Nancy Khalek is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and History, and specializes in medieval Islam. She received her Ph.D. in history from Princeton University in 2006. She is the author of Damascus after the Muslim Conquest: Text and Image in Early Islam, and she has published articles and essays in a number of scholarly journals and venues, including the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Der Islam, Arabica, and the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. She is currently working on a second book on the history of emotions and medieval (Arabic) Islamic literature. Courses taught include a range of topics spanning the medieval and contemporary Islamic world.  She has conducted archaeological survey and other fieldwork in Syria, Turkey and Jordan.