Justin K. Stearns (born October 13, 1974) is associate professor in Arab Crossroads Studies at NYU Abu Dhabi.[1] The son of Stephen C. Stearns and Beverly P. Stearns and the brother of Jason Stearns, he is married to Nathalie Peutz, a cultural anthropologist and assistant professor in Arab Crossroads Studies at NYU Abu Dhabi.[2]
Education and Training
- B.A. Dartmouth College 1998
- Fulbright Fellow Morocco 1998-1999
- Fulbright-Hays Fellow Spain & Morocco 2003-2004
- PhD Princeton University 2007[3]
Positions
- Assistant Professor of Religion, Middlebury College, 2005-2010
- Assistant Professor in Arab Crossroads Studies, NYU Abu Dhabi 2010-2014
- Associate Professor in Arab Crossroads Studies, NYU Abu Dhabi 2014-
- Chair, Arab Crossroads Studies, Abu Dhabi 2013-2017
- Editorial Board, The British Journal for the History of Science[4]
Selected publications
- Books
- Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean. Baltimore: JHU Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-8018-9873-0.
- al-Yusi, al-Hasan (2019). The Discourses: Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature—Volume One. Edited and translated by Justin Stearns. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-6457-2.
- Articles
- Stearns, Justin K. (2014), "All Beneficial Knowledge is Revealed': The Rational Sciences in the Maghrib in the age of al-Yusi (d. 1102/1691)", Islamic Law and Society, 21: 49–80, doi:10.1163/15685195-02112p02.
- Stearns, Justin K. (2011), "Writing the History of the Natural Sciences in the pre-modern Muslim world: Historiography, Religion, and the Importance of the Early Modern Period", History Compass, 9 (12): 923–951, doi:10.1111/j.1478-0542.2011.00810.x.
- Stearns, Justin K. (2011), "The Frontier of Gottfried Liedl: Situating the origins of European modernity in Naṣrid Granada", Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, 3 (2): 247–262, doi:10.1080/17546559.2011.610184, S2CID 159932236.
- Stearns, Justin K. (2009), "Representing and Remembering al-Andalus: Some Historical Considerations Regarding the End of Time and the Making of Nostalgia", Medieval Encounters, 15: 355–374, doi:10.1163/ej.9789004179196.i-276.51, ISBN 9789004179196.
- Stearns, Justin K. (2009), "New Directions in the Study of Religious Responses to the Black Death", History Compass, 7 (5): 1–13, doi:10.1111/j.1478-0542.2009.00634.x.
- Encyclopedia Articles
- Entries for al-Hasan al-Yusi and Ibn al-Banna in Dictionary of African Biography (2011)
- Entry on “Contagion” for the Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition (2010), 180–82.
References
- ^ Mangan, Katherine (March 18, 2015), "UAE incident raises questions", The Chronicle of Higher Education, archived from the original on 2015-03-20.
- ^ Genova, Nicholas De; Peutz, Nathalie (2010). The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement. Duke University Press. pp. ix. ISBN 978-0-8223-9134-0.
- ^ University, Princeton. "Display Person - Department of Near Eastern Studies". www.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
- ^ https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-for-the-history-of-science/information/about-this-journal/editorial-board
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