Category: Middle Eastern & North African History

Professor Aaron Rock-Singer Announced as 2022-23 Vilas Associate

Congratulations to Professor Aaron Rock-Singer, who has been selected as one of 26 faculty winners of the Vilas Associates Competition. The competition recognizes “new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance.” Tenure-track assistant professors and tenured faculty within 20 years of their tenure date are eligible to receive this award, which is funded by …

Professor Aaron Rock-Singer Publishes Article on Islamic Religious & Social Movements

Professor Aaron Rock-Singer has a new article in the journal Religions, titled “Practices of Piety: An Alternative Approach to the Study of Islamic Movements.” “This article challenges the dominant organization-centered focus of the study of Islamic movements, and argues for a turn towards social practice. To do so, it traces the rise and spread of …

Dan Stolz’s book featured on Social Science Research Council forum

Professor Daniel Stolz’s book, The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt (Cambridge, 2018), was featured in a book forum on The Immanent Frame, an interdisciplinary web journal on religion, secularism, and the public sphere, published by the Social Science Research Council. The forum, entitled Science and the Soul: New …

Welcome New Faculty

Paige Glotzer – Faculty Page I research the history of housing segregation in the nineteenth and twentieth century. My first book, entitled Building Suburban Power: The Business of Exclusionary Housing Markets, 1890-1960, is currently under contract with Columbia University Press for its Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism series. It charts how suburban developers, including …