Dana Sajdi
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
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. 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: Navigating the Book of Navigation and Stories Ottoman Objects Tell . The course has been featured on the Ottoman History Podcast.
Official evaluation summary
Courses taught
- HIST8000 Colloquium: Introduction to Doctoral Studies
- HIST5009 Senior Colloquium: The Question of Palestine
- HIST4122 Odysseys in the Western and Islamic Traditions
- HIST4901 Readings and Research: Independent Study
- HIST4962 Honors Thesis
- HIST8101 Interim Study
- HIST9901 Doctoral Comprehensives
- HIST9911 Doctoral Continuation
- ICSP7101 Readings and Research--Grad
- HIST4921 Advanced Independent Research
- HIST7101 Readings and Research: Independent Study
- ICSP4905 Advanced Independent Research I