Justin K. Stearns
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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]
BornOctober 13, 1974
CitizenshipUnited States
AlmamaterDartmouth College, Princeton University
SpouseNathalie Peutz
Justin K. Stearns | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 13, 1974 |
| 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) |
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.
- Revealed Sciences: The Natural Sciences in Islam in Seventeenth-Century Morocco. Cambridge University Press. 2021. ISBN 978-1-107-06557-4.
- 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, hdl:21.11116/0000-0006-E558-5.
- 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
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link). - 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.