Curriculum Vitae Personal information Name Anna Ayşe Akasoy Address 3207 Juniper Lane Falls Church VA 22044 USA 914-328-0974 [email protected]; [email protected] Present occupation Professor of Islamic Intellectual History The Graduate Center, City University of New York Academic education 1996-2005 Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt Oriental Studies, Philosophy, History 2005 PhD (summa cum laude) Title of thesis: Die Sizilianischen Fragen des Ibn Sabʿīn. Philosophie und Mystik in der späten Almohadenzeit 2002 MA Title of thesis: Das poetische Werk des Fauzī al-Maʿlūf Scholarships, fellowships and employment Since Sept. 2015: Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Department of Classics and Oriental Studies, Hunter College; Graduate School, MA Middle Eastern Studies, MA in Liberal Studies, PhD programs in Comparative Literature and History Jan. 2013 – Aug. 2015: Associate Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Department of Classics and Oriental Studies, Hunter College; Graduate School, MA Middle Eastern Studies and MA in Liberal Studies Jan. 2012 – Dec 2012: Visiting Research Fellow at the International Consortium, ‘Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe’, Ruhr University Bochum Jan. 2009 – Dec 2011: British Academy postdoctoral fellow, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford Oct. 2007 – Dec. 2008: Departmental lecturer in Islamic history and thought, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford 2005 – Sept. 2007: Research assistant, Warburg Institute, London, project: ‘Islam and Tibet: Cultural Interactions (8th-17th Centuries)’ sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council 2006 – 2008: Member of an interdisciplinary network for research on historical disasters (‘Historische Erforschung von Katastrophen in kulturvergleichender Perspektive’) sponsored by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) 2005/2006: Participation in the project ‘Universal Geometry’, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford (Transcription and translation of Arabic and Persian inscriptions on astrolabes) 2005: Research assistant, University of Frankfurt, History Department (July) 2005: Herzog-Ernst-Fellowship, Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Gotha, Germany (May – June) 2005: Frances A. Yates Fellowship, Warburg Institute, London (January – April) 2003: Scholarship for doctoral students, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service), Yale University (February – July) 2002 – 2004: Research fellow, University of Frankfurt, Research project on the court of Frederick II (History Department) 1999 – 2002: Research assistant, University of Frankfurt, Research project on the court of Frederick II (History Department) 1996 – 2002: Scholarship for undergraduate students, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation) Research, conference, publication and travel grants 2015: Presidential travel grant, Hunter College, to conduct research at libraries and in museums in London and Berlin 2012: Grants of the rector’s office of the University of Bochum to organize an international summer school for graduate students on ‘Eurasian religions in contact’ 2008: Grants of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the British Academy, the Institute of Philosophy (School of Advanced Study, London) and the Cassamarca Foundation for the conference 2 Renaissance Averroism and its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe (held in June 2008 at the Warburg Institute) Grant of the Barakat Trust for the publication of the proceedings of the conference on Rashīd al-Dīn (held in November 2007 at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL and the Warburg Institute) Grant of the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation for the publication of the results of the Islam and Tibet project 2007: Grant of the British Academy for participating in the fourth conference of the European Society for Environmental History (Amsterdam, June 2007) 2006: Grants of the British Academy and the Wellcome Trust for the conference Islam and Tibet: Cultural Interactions (held in November 2006 at the Warburg Institute) 2004: Research, Frankfurt University grant for international cooperation, Haifa University (August) Research, sponsored by German Research Foundation, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas / Biblioteca Islámica / Universidad Complutense, Madrid (February-June) 2003: Visiting doctoral student, Yale University, New Haven, sponsored by German Academic Exchange Service Research on Arabic manuscripts, sponsored by a project on Christian Arabic manuscripts at Amsterdam University, Paul Sbath Collection, Aleppo, Syria (September) Research on Arabic manuscripts, sponsored by German Research Foundation Qarawiyin Library, Fez, Morocco (September) 2002: Research on Arabic manuscripts, sponsored by German Research Foundation, Süleymaniye Library, Istanbul (February-March) 2001: Research on Arabic manuscripts, sponsored by German Research Foundation, Süleymaniye Library, Istanbul (February-March, August-September) 2000: Visiting scholar, German Institute for Oriental Studies, Beirut, sponsored by German National Academic Foundation (February-March, July-October) 1999: Internship, library of the German Institute for Oriental Studies, Beirut, sponsored by German National Academic Foundation (January-February, July-October) Teaching Undergraduate teaching evaluations available upon request. 3 2018 Hunter College, Thomas Hunter Honors College (‘The Islamic City in History, Architecture and Literature) Graduate Center, PhD Comparative Literature (‘Turkish Immigrants in German Literature and Film’) 2017 Hunter College, Department of Classical and Oriental Studies (‘The Arabian Nights: East and West’; ‘Muslim Spain’) Graduate Center, MA Liberal Studies (‘From Alexander to Mohammed: Introduction to the Culture of the Ancient Mediterranean’), PhD History (‘Islamic Rulership: The Caliphate in Theory and Practice’) 2016 Hunter College, Department of Classical and Oriental Studies (‘The Literature and Culture of Muslim Spain’; ‘Literatures of the Islamic World’) Graduate Center, PhD Comparative Literature (‘The Arabian Nights’, ‘Travel Literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Islamic World’) 2015 Hunter College, Department of Classical and Oriental Studies (‘The Arabian Nights: East and West’), Thomas Hunter Honors Program (‘The Islamic City in Architecture, History and Literature’) Graduate Center, PhD History (‘Violence in Islamic History’), MA Middle Eastern Studies (‘Approaches to the Study of the Middle East’) 2014 Hunter College, Department of Classical and Oriental Studies (‘Islamic Civilization’, ‘The Classical Heritage of the Middle East and Asia’) Graduate Center, MA Liberal Studies (‘Renaissance Culture’), MA Middle Eastern Studies (‘Approaches to the Study of the Middle East’) 2013 Hunter College, Department of Classical and Oriental Studies (‘The Qur’an: an Introduction’, ‘Literatures of the Islamic World’); Department of Philosophy (‘Medieval Philosophy’) Graduate Center, MA Middle Eastern Studies (‘Muslims and non-Muslims’) 2011 University of Oxford, Oriental Institute, tutorial course (Arabic philosophy and the Qur’an) 2009/10 University of Oxford, Oriental Institute • ‘Islamic Religion’; third-year undergraduate course (modern Islam and Sufism) • ‘Islamic History until 1500’; undergraduate course • ‘Islamic Philosophy’; undergraduate course University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, ‘Classical Arabic Philosophical Literature’; fourth-year undergraduate course 4 School of Oriental and African Studies, Study of Religion Department, guest lecture ‘Death and Islam’ in class on death and religions 2008/09 University of Oxford, Oriental Institute • ‘Introduction to Islamic History’ (early Islamic history); undergraduate first year • ‘Introduction to Islamic Religion’; undergraduate first year • ‘Islamic History until 1500’ (early Islamic history); third-year undergraduate, first-year graduate • ‘The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement’; undergraduate tutorial course • ‘Muslims and non-Muslims’; undergraduate tutorial course • ‘The Islamic Conquests (Jihad and Muslim Spain)’; undergraduate tutorial course • Classical Arabic texts; reading class for MPhil students University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies • ‘Approaches to the Qur’an’; second-year undergraduate • ‘Classical Arabic Philosophical Literature’; fourth-year undergraduate Birkbeck College, Faculty of Continuing Education, MA programme Islamic Studies, ‘Sufism and Islam: Faith, Reason and Revelation’ School of Oriental and African Studies, Study of Religion Department, guest lecture ‘Death and Islam’ in class on death and religions 2007/08 University of Oxford, Oriental Institute • ‘Introduction to Islamic History’; first-year undergraduate • ‘Islamic History until 1500’; third-year undergraduate and first-year graduate • ‘Islamic Religion’; third-year undergraduate course (Qur’an and Islamic law) • Classical Arabic texts; reading class for MPhil students 2006/07 University of Cambridge, Oriental Faculty, fourth-year undergraduate course, ‘Classical Arabic Philosophical Literature’ Birkbeck College, Faculty of Continuing Education, MA programme Islamic Studies, ‘Sufism and Islam: Faith, Reason and Revelation’ School of Oriental and African Studies, Study of Religion Department, guest lecture ‘Death and Islam’ in class on death and religions Warburg Institute, MA option, ‘The Image of the Turk in Renaissance Literature: the Age of Mehmed II’ 5 Warburg Institute,