I am an Assistant Professor of History at Wesleyan University. My research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of the early modern era (ca. 1300 to 1600) and more generally I am interested in cross-cultural transmission across the Mediterranean, especially in the fields of book history and the history of science. I teach on a range of topics in the cultural and social history of the Ottoaman and Mediterranean worlds.
I recently completed my PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. My advisors were Professors Cemal Kafadar and Ann Blair. My dissertation examined the historical understanding of time and temporality in the late medieval and early modern Ottoman Empire. I take temporality to mean the lived experience of time, and thus explored the calendrical, religious, and intellectual dimensions of time in the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries. My dissertation has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Commission (Fulbright-Hays DDRA), the Renaissance Society of America, the Delmas Foundation, Villa I Tatti, Princeton University Library, the Newberry Library, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, among others.
I received my MPhil in European History in 2016 from the University of Oxford while supported by an Ertegun Scholarship. In 2014, I graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, where I majored in History with a minor in Arabic.
I am a frequent host at the Ottoman History Podcast. I also work on sound production for OHP episodes and currently manage their social media. I am also the host of “Desert Cruising with Captain Ahab,” a weekly rock and metal show at 103.3FM WPRB Princeton that I began in 2012.