The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology
Edited by Bethany Walker, Timothy Insoll, and Corisande Fenwick
Author Information
Bethany Walker is Research Professor and Director of the Islamic Archaeology Research Unit at the University of Bonn, Germany. A historically trained archaeologist and specialist of peasant societies, her archaeological fieldwork in the eastern Mediterranean spans nearly thirty years. Walker is the Senior Editor of the Journal of Islamic Archaeology and serves on the Board of the American Center of Oriental Research in Amman.
Corisande Fenwick is Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at UCL. Awarded her PhD in 2013 from Stanford University, she held postdoctoral fellowships at Brown University and the University of Leicester before moving to London in 2015. She has published extensively on Islamic North Africa, and currently directs field projects in Morocco and Tunisia.
Timothy Insoll was educated at the Universities of Sheffield (BA, 1992), and Cambridge (PhD, 1996). He was awarded a Research Fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge (1995) and was appointed lecturer at the University of Manchester in 1998 and was awarded a personal chair in 2005. In 2016 he was appointed to an Al-Qasimi Professorship at the University of Exeter. He is the author or editor of several books and special journal issues, and numerous articles and reviews. He has completed archaeological fieldwork in Mali, Ghana, western India, Bahrain, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Uganda.
Contributors:
Corisande Fenwick (Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London)
Timothy Insoll (Al-Qasimi Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)
Bethany J. Walker (Director, Research Unit in Islamic Archaeology, Department of Islamic Studies, University of Bonn)
Marie-Odile Rousset (Université Lyon, Faculty Member)
Alastair Northedge (Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne, UFR d'Art et d'Archéologie, Faculty Member)
Alison L. Gascoigne (Associate Professor in Medieval Archaeology, University of Southampton)
Rocco Rante (Département d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art, Aix-Marseille Université)
Scott Redford (Nasser D Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology, University of London)
Filiz Yenisehirlioglu (Koç University, Faculty Member)
Andrew Petersen (Director in Islamic Archaeology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David)
Ibolya Gerelyes (Hungarian National Museum), Athanasios Vionis (University of Cyprus), Vesna Bikic (Institute of Archaeology Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade), Niculina Dinu (Museum of Braila - ,Carol I") and Svitlana Biliaieva (Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
Abdallah Fili (Chouaib Doukkali University, Histoire et Archéologie islamique, Faculty Member)
Sam Nixon (Visiting Research Fellow, IAS, University College London; Associate Researcher, University of East Anglia)
Patrice Cressier (Université de Lyon, CNRS, Chargé de recherche) and Sonia Gutiérrez Lloret (Directora del Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Arqueología y Patrimonio Histórico-INAPH, Universidad de Alicante)
Alessandra Molinari ("Tor Vergata" University of Rome, History, Faculty Member)
Marek Jankowiak (Departmental Lecturer in Byzantine History, University of Oxford)
Jeffrey Fleisher (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University) and Stephanie Wynne-Jones (University of York, Archaeology, Faculty Member)
Intisar Soghayroun El Zein (Professor of Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Khartoum)
Carlos Magnavita (independent post-doctoral archaeologist) and Abubakar S. Sule (Senior Lecturer and the Head of the Department of Archaeology at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria)
Pierre Siméon (Research Associate Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Pergamonmuseum, Department Member)
Mehrdad Shokoohy ) Emeritus Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies, The University of Greenwich ) and Natalie H. Shokoohy (MA, PhD, Architectural Historian)
Jacqueline M. Armijo (Associate Professor of the Humanities, Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh)
Alexander Wain (IAIS, Malaysia, Civilisation, Interfaith, Peace and Security Unit, Faculty Member)
Bert de Vries (Calvin College, Department of History)
Øystein S. LaBianca (Associate Director, Institute of Archaeology, Andrews University), Maria Elena Ronza (Sela for vocational training and protection of cultural heritage), and Noël Harris (Andrews University)
Nasser Rabbat (Aga Khan Professor, Director of Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT)
Trinidad Rico (Assistant Professor and Director of CHAPS, Rutgers University)
Stephennie Mulder (Associate Professor of Art History, The University of Texas)
José C. Carvajal López (University of Leicester, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, Faculty Member; University College London, UCL Qatar Department, Faculty Member), Jelena Zivkovic (University College London, UCL Qatar Department, PhD candidate), Alkindi Aljawabra (University College London, UCL Qatar Department, PhD candidate), and Rim Lababidi (Architect and Cultural Heritage Specialist, UCL Qatar, Research Asisstant)
