History Department Faculty
Dana Sajdi
Associate Professor
Dana Sajdi
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall Room S307
Telephone: 617-552-1871
Email: dana.sajdi@bc.edu
ORCID
Education
- B.A., American University in Cairo
- Ph.D., Columbia University
Research Interests
Islamic history; Arabic and Ottoman historiography; urban history; popular history; book history; topography; Geographic Information Systems
Department
Biography
Dana Sajdi is a specialist in the premodern social and 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 and 20th centuries.聽
In addition to keeping a busy research agenda, Sajdi has been involved in podcasting as a teaching and learning medium. Along with colleagues and students, she set up a Pod Studio at the History Department and has been teaching a history core course entitled Podcasting the Ottomans (HIST 1806) for which undergraduates have the opportunity to publish their research: and . The course has been featured on the Ottoman History Podcast.
Selected Publications and Podcast Appearances
2022: 鈥淔rom Diy膩r膩t to Ziy膩r膩t: Transmutations of the Sacred and Generic Landscape in Syria,鈥� Journal of Arabic Literature 53 (2022): 216-245.
2022: 鈥�,鈥� Navigating the Book of Navigation, Podcasting the Ottomans, September 4.
2021: Response to Fran莽ois Hartog, 鈥淐hronos, Kairos, Krisis: The Genesis of Western Time,鈥� History and Theory 60.3 (2021): 444-448.
2021: 鈥溾�� Art in Focus, Co-Commentator with Sahar Bazzaz on an exhibition at the McMullen Museum, 艾可直播 College, May 4
2021: 鈥�,鈥� with Chris Gratien, hosted by Meryum Kazmi and Harry Bastermajian, Harvard Islamica.
2020: 鈥淭he Place of Early-Modern Arabic Culture,鈥� The Journal of Turkish and Ottoman Studies Association 7.2 (2020): 81-94.
2019: 鈥淩eclaiming Damascus: Rescripting Islamic Time and Space in the 16th century,鈥� History and Theory, Special Issue Islamic Pasts: Histories, Concepts, Interventions, edited by Shahzad Bashir) 58.4 (2019): 68-85
2016: 鈥�,鈥� Ottoman History Podcast, November 12.
2013: The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the 18th-Century Ottoman Levant. Stanford University Press. 2013 (Arabic and Turkish translations in 2018).聽
2009: 鈥淩e-visiting Layl膩鈥檚 al-Akhyaliyya鈥檚 Trespass,鈥� in Early Islamic Poetry and Poetics, the Formation of the Classical Islamic World Series, edited by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych.聽 Ashgate/Variorum, 2009, 157-200. Reprint.
2009: 鈥淧rint and its Discontents: A Case for Pre-Print Journalism and Other Sundry Print Matters,鈥� The Translator, 15:1, 2009, 105-138.聽
2008: 鈥溾�楧ecline鈥� and its Discontents and Ottoman Cultural History: By Way of Introduction,鈥� in Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee: Leisure and Lifestyles in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Dana Sajdi. IB Tauris, 2008, 1-40.