Paula A. Sanders

Professor of History
Interim Director, Jewish Studies Program
Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Email: sanders [] rice.edu Phone: X4002 Office: 315 Allen Center, MS-13

Education

• Ph.D. Princeton University, 1984

• B.A. Norhtwestern University, 1977

Areas of Interest

• Women in the Islamic World

• Classical Islamic culture

• The Crusades

Research and Teaching

Selected Publications

• Creating Medieval Cairo: Empire, Religion, and Architectural Preservation in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (The American University in Cairo Press, 2007)

• A Mediterranean Society, vol. 6, with S. D. Goitein (California, 1993)

• Ritual, Politics, and the City in Fatimid Cairo (SUNY, 1994)

• Travelers in the Middle East Archive (co-PI).  The Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) is a digital archive that focuses on Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly travels to Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Creating Medieval Cairo: Empire, Religion, and Architectural Preservation in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (2008)	Ritual, Politics, and the Citiy in Fatimid Cairo (1994)

Curriculum Vitae

CV as of 8/23/07 

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