Sources is a series of video podcasts exploring the civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean world, and their influence today.
Ancient Sources - CNERS Departmental Vodcast
New Faculty
Gregg Gardner is the holder of the Diamond Chair in Jewish Law and Ethics. He holds a BA in Economics and Jewish Studies (Binghamton University), an MA in Jewish History (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and both MA and PhD in Religion (Princeton University). Gregg has been a Mellon/ American Council of Learned Societies post-doctoral fellow at Brown, a Starr Fellow in Judaica at Harvard University, and he held a Newcombe Foundation Fellowship for his doctoral work on religion and ethics. His research and teaching focus on Jewish law and ethics, as well as the history and literature of early Judaism. His published work includes articles on the Maccabees and the image of the patriarch Abraham in the Talmud, as well an edited volume on Judaism in the ancient world. Dr. Gardner is currently completing a book on the history of charity in ancient Judaism and classical rabbinic literature.
We pulled off an unexpected achievement in the spousal hire of Rumee's wife, Ayesha Chaudhry, who holds a joint position between CNERS and Women's & Gender Studies (WAGS).
Ayesha's field is also Islamic Studies and she was also teaching in the Department of Religion at Colgate University. She is Canadian and holds degrees from Toronto (BA in Political Science and Philosophy, collaborative MA in the Departments of Near Eastern Civilizations and Women’s Studies) and NYU (PhD, 2009) and she is an expert on women and violence in Islam. The title of her PhD was 'Wife-Beating in the Pre-Modern Islamic Tradition: An Inter-Disciplinary Study of Ḥadīth, Qur’anic Exegesis and Islamic Jurisprudence' and she is currently developing this for publication with Oxford University Press. She has another exciting collaborative project in the works for Stanford University Press.
Rumee Ahmed is our new Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies and he comes to us after teaching for three years at Colgate University in upstate New York.
His BA, from University of Maryland, College Park, was in Philosophy and he holds a PhD (2008) in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia, for a dissertation entitled 'Constructing an Islamic Legal Narrative: A Study of Classical Ḥanafī Legal Theories'. Rumee is an expert in Islamic Law and his first book, entitled Narrative Law: The Creative Logic of Islamic Legal Theory, will be published by Oxford University Press in January 2012. We are hoping for a vigorous and productive synergy between Rumee Ahmed, Gregg Gardner and Leanne Bablitz with her expertise in Roman law.
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