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Indiana University Bloomington
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Core Faculty : People

NAMESara Scalenghe

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
  • Assistant Professor, Department of History

Education

  • Ph.D. at at Georgetown University, 2006

Research Interests

  • Early Modern and Modern Middle Eastern and North African history
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Social, cultural, gender, and disability issues

Contact Information

scalengs@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 628
(812) 855-7438

Courses Recently Taught

  • Modern Middle Eastern History
  • The Body in Modern History

Publication Highlights

  • "The Deaf in Ottoman Syria, 16th-18th Centuries." Arab Studies Journal 12-13 (Fall 2004/Spring 2005): 10-25.
  • "Towards a History of Disability in the Middle East: Attitudes to the Deaf in Ottoman Syria." Rethinking Culture in the Ottoman 18th Century, Princeton University, January 2005.
  • "How Many Genders?: Hermaphrodites, Effeminates, and 'Homosexuals' in Middle Eastern History." Rethinking the Study of Women and Gender in the Arab World: Issues and Trends in Scholarship and Teaching, Georgetown University, February 2004.
  • "Medical Discourses on the Gendered Body in Ottoman Syria." Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 2002.