Academia

Folio from an Arabic manuscript copy of Dioscorides' De Materia Medica: An illustration of a doctor clad in a red robe stewing a pot, another pot hangs over a coal brazier next to an amphora. The scene takes place between two trees and is surrounded by Arabic text. — "Physician Preparing an Elixir", Folio from a Materia Medica of Dioscorides, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/446288

My research interests include medieval Arabic medicine, pharmacy, perfumery, cookery, and anything connected to it, as well as the history of science in Arabo-Islamicate societies more broadly.

I am also interested in (modern) Arabic literature, which I sometimes translate in my spare time.

If you want to learn more about my research, check out these pieces I've written for various scholarly online publications:

A Snake Oil from Tenth Century al-Andalus, The Recipes Project
What Culinary History Can Teach Us: Tracing Dishes Through the Library of Arabic Literature, Library for Arabic Literature Blog
Even Better Than the Real Thing: Faking Foodstuffs in 13th-Century Syria, AHA Perspectives Daily

This blog will, I hope, come to serve as a place where I collect my favourite resources for anything connected to my research. In the meantime, I'll share any new publications on my page on academia.edu .