I am an Assistant Professor of Religion and Middle Eastern Studies and Islamic Civilization at Colgate University.[1] I received my Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department at Harvard. My research and teaching interests extend from the early classical period to the present and include translation of classical Arabic texts, Qur'anic interpretation, women's issues, and modern day reformist and neo-traditionalist movements. My doctoral work, which focused on the formative and classical periods, together with my on-going research and interdisciplinary teaching allows me to help students bridge the divide between the past and the present to facilitate development of a deeper and more nuanced understanding that will allow them to situate current events along the broad spectrum of Islamic social and intellectual history. I teach a variety of classes intended to familiarize students with not only the general outlines of Islamic history, but also to acquaint them with some of the great breadth and depth of intellectual and religious development that has taken place in Islam over more than a millennium.
