Michael Chamberlain
Associate Professor

eMail: mchamber@wisc.edu
Phone: (608)265-2673
Office: 4111 Mosse Humanities
Mailbox: 4052 Mosse Humanities

Curriculum Vitae: View PDF

Office Hours: TBA

Education: PhD: UC-Berkeley; MA: Pontificio Instituto di Studi Arabi e d’Isalamistica; BA: UC-Berkeley

Bio Sketch:

My specializations is Middle East (Medieval)

My Research and Teaching Interests include Social and cultural history of the medieval Middle East: comparative history; comparative family history. Teaching fields: the Middle East from antiquity to the twentieth century; Muslim responses to the Crusades; Middle Eastern citires from Late Antiquity to the twentieth-century; nineteenth-century Islamic political movements; nineteenth-century Egypt and Syria.

Selected Publications:

• Knowledge and Social Practice in Medieval Damascus, 1190-1350 (Cambridge University Press, 1994).
  

Courses Taught:

Lecture Courses:

• History 205 - The Making of the Islamic World: The Middle East, 500-1500 - Syllabus 2007 (pdf)
• History 439 - Islamic History From the Origin of Islam to the Ottoman Empire

Undergraduate Seminars:

• History 225 - Explorations in 3rd World History
• History 600 - Advanced Seminar in History - Topics: "Family & Gender in Medieval Islam "; "Shiism in Iraq "
• History 680/690 - Honors Thesis Colloquium

Graduate Courses:

• History 851 - Seminar on Ottoman and Middle East History
• History 858 - Seminar in Problems of Islamic History - Topics: "Medieval Islamic Cocial History"