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.  

Books:

• Mapping the Middle East. London: Reaktion Books, 2018.
• Routes and Realms: The Power of Place in the Early Islamic World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

• "Qamarayn: The Erotics of Sameness in the 1001 Nights," al-'Usur al-Wusta: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists 28 (2020): 1-44.
• "The Politics of Place in the Works of Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Fadl Allah al-'Umari," Mamluk Studies Review 18 (2014-15): 91-111.
• "Ibn 'Asakir's Representations of Syria and Damascus in the Introduction to the Ta'rikh Madinat Dimashq," International Journal of Middle East Studies 38, 1 (2006): 109-129.

Selected Presentations:

• "Sex, Sameness, and Embodiments of Desire in the 1001 Nights," Columbia University, February 2020
• "On Reading al-Idrisi in the 21st Century," Harvard University, October 2019
• "Global Umma: Connectivity in Islamic Mapping Traditions," Yale University, October 2018

• 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.