Justin K. Stearns

Justin K. Stearns
Born	(1974-10-13) October 13, 1974 (age 50)
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Dartmouth College, Princeton University
Spouse	Nathalie Peutz
Scientific career
Fields	History, History of Science, Religion
Institutions	Arab Crossroads Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi
Thesis	(2007)

Justin K. Stearns (born October 13, 1974) is associate professor in Arab Crossroads Studies at NYU Abu Dhabi. ^[1] The son of Stephen C. Stearns and Beverly P. Stearns and the brother of Jason Stearns, he is married to Nathalie Peutz, a cultural anthropologist and assistant professor in Arab Crossroads Studies at NYU Abu Dhabi. ^[2]

Education and Training

• B.A. Dartmouth College 1998
• Fulbright Fellow Morocco 1998-1999
• Fulbright-Hays Fellow Spain & Morocco 2003-2004
• PhD Princeton University 2007 ^[3]

Positions

• Assistant Professor of Religion, Middlebury College, 2005-2010
• Assistant Professor in Arab Crossroads Studies, NYU Abu Dhabi 2010-2014
• Associate Professor in Arab Crossroads Studies, NYU Abu Dhabi 2014-
• Chair, Arab Crossroads Studies, Abu Dhabi 2013-2017
• Editorial Board, The British Journal for the History of Science ^[4]

Selected publications

Books

• Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean. Baltimore: JHU Press. 2011. ISBN   978-0-8018-9873-0.
• al-Yusi, al-Hasan (2019). The Discourses: Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature—Volume One. Edited and translated by Justin Stearns. NYU Press. ISBN   978-0-8147-6457-2.

Articles

• Stearns, Justin K. (2014), "All Beneficial Knowledge is Revealed': The Rational Sciences in the Maghrib in the age of al-Yusi (d. 1102/1691)", Islamic Law and Society, 21: 49–80, doi:10.1163/15685195-02112p02 .
• Stearns, Justin K. (2011), "Writing the History of the Natural Sciences in the pre-modern Muslim world: Historiography, Religion, and the Importance of the Early Modern Period", History Compass, 9 (12): 923–951, doi:10.1111/j.1478-0542.2011.00810.x .
• Stearns, Justin K. (2011), "The Frontier of Gottfried Liedl: Situating the origins of European modernity in Naṣrid Granada", Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, 3 (2): 247–262, doi:10.1080/17546559.2011.610184, S2CID   159932236 .
• Stearns, Justin K. (2009), "Representing and Remembering al-Andalus: Some Historical Considerations Regarding the End of Time and the Making of Nostalgia", Medieval Encounters, 15: 355–374, doi:10.1163/ej.9789004179196.i-276.51, ISBN   9789004179196 .
• Stearns, Justin K. (2009), "New Directions in the Study of Religious Responses to the Black Death", History Compass, 7 (5): 1–13, doi:10.1111/j.1478-0542.2009.00634.x .

Encyclopedia Articles

• Entries for al-Hasan al-Yusi and Ibn al-Banna in Dictionary of African Biography (2011)
• Entry on “Contagion” for the Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition (2010), 180–82.

References

1. Mangan, Katherine (March 18, 2015), "UAE incident raises questions", The Chronicle of Higher Education, archived from the original on 2015-03-20.
2. Genova, Nicholas De; Peutz, Nathalie (2010). The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement. Duke University Press. pp. ix. ISBN   978-0-8223-9134-0.
3. University, Princeton. "Display Person - Department of Near Eastern Studies". www.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
4. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-for-the-history-of-science/information/about-this-journal/editorial-board

External links

• http://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/academics/faculty/justin-stearns.html