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Current Member

Uri Zvi Shachar

Funding provided by the Fund for Historical Studies

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

Medieval Studies

Home Institution

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Uri Zvi Shachar is interested in interreligious encounters in late medieval Europe and the Mediterranean. While at IAS, Shachar will study a fourteenth century encyclopedia called The Book of Sidrac, as a part of a project that seeks to reevaluate the history of Mediterranean French in its rise as a site of intellectual and literary contact.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies

Degrees

University of Chicago
Ph.D.
2013

Appointments

Ben-Gurion University
2020–2024
Associate Professor
Ben-Gurion University
2014–2020
Assistant Professor