Books:

1. Mosaics in Earthquake Country (working title) explores the social impact of eastern Mediterranean religious and ethnic diversity in the period ca. 950-1500
2. Getting Along Sometimes: Intersecting Lives in the Medieval Middle East (working title) explores the biographies of a range of people from different religions, different geographies, and different social stations in the medieval Middle East to demonstrate how diversity impacted real people’s lives and the choices they made.
3. An edition, translation, and commentary on Ishaq Shbadnaya’s book-length “Poem on God’s Government from ‘In the Beginning’ to Eternity,” from fifteenth-century Iraq.

Articles:

1. A book chapter on religious conversion in Byzantine/Islamic relations.

Digital History:

1. An online reference work to record and make visible the range of languages containing sources relevant for various topics in medieval Mediterranean and Middle Eastern history

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