I am an Assistant Professor at Haverford College. I offer courses on Islamic intellectual and cultural history in the Department of Religion and the Program in Comparative Literature.

My areas of academic interest include: mysticism, geography, pilgrimage, encyclopedias, Persian and Arabic literary traditions, heterodoxies, material and visual cultures, scripture, translation, epistemology, and Islamic jurisprudence.

I hold a B.A. from Middlebury College, and an A.M. and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in Comparative Literature.