Kristina Richardson, Assistant Professor

 

Office: Powdermaker 352 S        
Phone: (718) 997-5048
Fax: (718) 997-5359
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Academic Website
kristina.richardson@qc.cuny.edu

Academic Biography
Kristina Richardson teaches courses in Islamic history. She earned her PhD in Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan in 2008, and her AB in History at Princeton University in 2003. She is currently revising her dissertation "Blighted Bodies and Physical Difference in Cairo, Damascus and Mecca, 1400-1550" into a book manuscript. Additionally, she is working on projects about the Islamic theology of blue eyes and on medieval scholars' use of marking nut, a potent botanical neuroenhancer.

Research Interests
Gender, sexuality, disability, history of medicine, Mamluk sultanate (1250-1517 CE), Ottoman Arab provinces

Languages
English, Classical Arabic, Persian, French, German, Italian, American Sign Language

Courses Taught
History 148: Islamic Civilizations, 600-1800
History 149: Modern Middle East History
History 200/Women's Studies 201: Gender and Sexuality in Islamic Societies
History/Education 799: History of Disability and Special Education

Fellowships and Honors
2009: NEH Summer Seminar at the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, University of    
          London

Selected Publications
"Singing Slave Girls (qiyan) at the Abbasid Court," in Children and Slavery through the Ages, eds. Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph C. Miller (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009).