Degrees:
Ph.D., Harvard Univ.
M.Phil., Oxford Univ., St. Anthony's
B.A., Univ. of Virginia
Zayde Antrim is a historian of gender, sexuality, and space in the
Middle East and editor of Al-'Usur al-Wusta: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists. Her current book project is on embodiment and eroticism in medieval
Arabic literature. Her previous books have explored geographical imaginations as expressed in both word and image
between the ninth century and today. All of her work centers the close reading
of texts and draws heavily from the fields of literary criticism and critical geography.
At Trinity, Professor Antrim holds a joint appointment in the History
Department and International Studies Program, as well as a courtesy appointment
in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program. She enjoys the creative thinking that
teaching across three departments and programs makes possible and the diversity
of students who take her courses.
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Gender and sexuality
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Arabic literature
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History of cartography
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Geographical imaginations
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Empire and postcolonialism
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Gender, embodiment, and eroticism in medieval Arabic literature
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Cartography, spatial thought, and belonging in Middle East history
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Representations of homes, cities, and regions in the early Islamic world
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Books:
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Mapping the Middle East. London: Reaktion Books, 2018.
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Routes and Realms: The Power of Place in the Early Islamic World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Selected Articles:
Recent Presentations:
- "Between Text and Image: Gender and Embodiment in the 1001 Nights," Princeton University, April 2024
- "Old Maps, New Worlds: Arabic Atlases before the Age of Partition," Skidmore College, October 2023
- "Min al-?Arish ila l-Furat: al-Sham in Medieval Thought," The American University in Cairo, March 2022
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- Charles A. Dana Research Professor, Trinity College, 2025-27.
- Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, 2023-2024.
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2015-2016.
- Charles A. Dana Research Associate Professor, Trinity College, 2013-2015.
- American Council for Learned Societies Fellowship, 2009-2010.
- Bruce D. Craig Prize in Mamluk Studies, 2005.
- Whiting Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2003.
- Rhodes Scholarship, 1995.
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