历史 Department Faculty
Dana Sajdi
Associate Professor
Dana Sajdi
Ph.D.
联系
Stokes Hall Room S307
Telephone: 617-552-1871
电子邮件: 丹娜.sajdi@krissystems.com
ORCID 0000-0003-1414-4294
Education
- B.A., American University in Cairo
- Ph.D., Columbia University
电子游戏正规平台 Interests
Islamic history; Arabic 和 Ottoman historiography; urban history; popular history; book history; topography; Geographic Information Systems
Department
Biography
Dana Sajdi is a specialist in the premodern social 和 cultural history of the Arabic-speaking Eastern Mediterranean. She is currently writing In Defense of Damascus, a history of the city that is based on a continuous tradition of local descriptions between the 12th 和 20th centuries.
In addition to keeping a busy research agenda, Sajdi has been involved in podcasting as a teaching 和 learning medium. Along with colleagues 和 students, she set up a Pod Studio at the 历史 Department 和 has been teaching a history core course entitled Podcasting the Ottomans (HIST 1806) for which undergraduates have the opportunity to publish their research: Navigating the Book of Navigation 和 Stories Ottoman Objects Tell. The course has been featured on the Ottoman 历史 Podcast.
Selected Publications 和 Podcast Appearances
2022: “From Diyārāt to Ziyārāt: Transmutations of the Sacred 和 Generic L和scape in Syria,” Journal of Arabic Literature 53 (2022): 216-245.
2022: “Piri with Peers,” Navigating the Book of Navigation, Podcasting the Ottomans, September 4.
2021: Response to François Hartog, “Chronos, 凯洛, Krisis: The Genesis of Western Time,” 历史 和 Theory 60.3 (2021): 444-448.
2021: “Taking Shape: Arab Abstraction, 1950’s-1980’s” Art in Focus, Co-Commentator with Sahar Bazzaz on an exhibition at the McMullen Museum, Boston College, 5月4日
2021: “Podcasting 和 the Islamic 历史 Classroom,” with Chris Gratien, hosted by Meryum Kazmi 和 Harry Bastermajian, Harvard Islamica.
2020: “The Place of Early-Modern Arabic Culture,” The Journal of Turkish 和 Ottoman Studies Association 7.2 (2020): 81-94.
2019: “Reclaiming Damascus: Rescripting Islamic Time 和 Space in the 16th century,” 历史 和 Theory, Special Issue Islamic Pasts: Histories, 概念, Interventions, edited by Shahzad Bashir) 58.4 (2019): 68-85
2016: “Nouveau Literacy in the 18th-Century Levant,” Ottoman 历史 Podcast, November 12.
2013: Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the 18th-Century Ottoman Levant. Stanford University Press. 2013 (Arabic 和 Turkish translations in 2018).
2009: “Re-visiting Laylā’s al-Akhyaliyya’s Trespass,” in Early Islamic Poetry 和 Poetics, the Formation of the Classical Islamic World Series, edited by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych. Ashgate/Variorum, 2009, 157-200. 重印.
2009: “Print 和 its Discontents: A Case for Pre-Print Journalism 和 Other Sundry Print Matters,” The Translator, 15:1, 2009, 105-138.
2008: “‘Decline’ 和 its Discontents 和 Ottoman Cultural 历史: By Way of Introduction,” in Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee: Leisure 和 Lifestyles in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Dana Sajdi. IB Tauris, 2008, 1-40.