Marina Rustow is a social historian of the medieval Middle East, who works with a relatively neglected type of source: documents, especially sources from the Cairo Geniza, a cache of roughly 400,000 folio pages and fragments preserved in an Egyptian synagogue. She also work with Arabic papyri and paper documents from other sources. Most of her research has centered on Egypt and Syria from the tenth century to the fifteenth, with occasional forays into Europe and modernity.
Marina Rustow is a member of the associated faculty for the Program in Medieval Studies. Read her full bio on the Department of Near Eastern Studies website.
