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Muzaffar Alam



George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Phone: (773) 834-2809
alam@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Urdu and Indian Persian literature, history of late medieval and early modern northern India

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Michael I. Allen



Associate Professor in Classics and the College
Phone: (773) 288-1507
frechulf@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Early medieval cultures, literatures, and societies, medieval historical writing, books, script, and learning in medieval Europe, the role of women in medieval education, Latin paleography

Niall Atkinson

Niall Atkinson



Associate Professor of Art History, Romance Languages and Literature, and the College, Medieval and Renaissance Architecture and Urban History
nsatkinson@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Medieval Italian Architecture and Urbanism, Historical Soundscapes, Early Modern Travel in the Mediterranean, Digital Humanities and Historical Mapping, Environmental Histories of Early Modern Italy

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Orit Bashkin



Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History
Phone: (773) 834-8346
oritb@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Iraqi history, the history of Iraqi Jews, the Arab cultural revival movement (the nahda) in the late 19th century, the connections between modern Arab history and Arabic literature

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James Grossman



Executive Director of the American Historical Association
Office: American Historical Association 400 A Street SE Washington DC 20003 (202) 544-2422
jgrossman@historians.org
Interests:

The American South, slavery, US social history, American labor history, urban history

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Alison L. LaCroix



Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law
Phone: (773) 834-7687
lacroix@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Legal history, federalism, constitutional law, federal jurisdiction, civil procedure, and law and literature

Rochona Majumdar

Rochona Majumdar



George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in the Departments of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College
Office: Foster Hall 215
Phone: (773) 834-2966
rmajumda@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Social and cultural history of modern South Asia

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Willemien Otten



Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology and the History of Christianity
Phone: (773) 702-1901
wotten@uchicago.edu
Interests:

History of Christianity and Christian thought; Western medieval and the early Christian intellectual tradition; continuity of Platonic themes

Holly Shissler



Associate Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish History
Phone: (773) 834-4390
ashissle@uchicago.edu
Interests:

Ottoman history, history of the early Turkish republic, modern Middle East history, nationalism, intellectual history