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.