Michael Sells CV 08 December 2015 1 Curriculum Vitae MICHAEL A SELLS 08 December 2015 John Henry Barrows Professor of the History and Literature of Islam Professor of Comparative Literature University of Chicago Divinity School, Swift Hall 1025 E. 58th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637
[email protected] EDUCATION The University of Chicago . 1978–1982 . Ph.D. 1982 Center for Arabic Studies Abroad, Cairo, Egypt . 1977–1978 The University of Chicago . 1976–1977 . M.A. 1977 Gonzaga University. 1967–1971 . A.B. 1971 (Florence Italy Program, 69–70) POSITIONS HELD 7/05 – University of Chicago, John Henry Barrow Professor of the History and Literature of Islam, Divinity School; and since 2009, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. 5/95–7/05 Haverford College, Professor of Religion and Emily Judson Baugh and John Marshall Gest Professor of Comparative Religions. (7/97–7/98 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, in residence) 7/92–6/96 Haverford College, Chairperson, Dept. of Religion. 5/90–5/95 Haverford College, Associate Professor, Department of Religion. 8/84–5/90 Haverford College, Assistant Professor, Department of Religion 8/82–8/84 Stanford University, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow. 8/72–6/74 Peace Corps, Tunisia. Lycée de Medenine. Lycée de Foum Tatahouine. HONORS 2004 Choice "Academic Book of the Year" Award for The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy (Columbia University Press, 2004). 2003 Andrew Mellon New Directions Fellowship: for Work on Religion and Conflict in Bosnia- Hercegovina. 2002 Annual Selection of Approaching the Qur'an for the Required Book of the Year, University of North Carolina Summer Reading Program.