Marilyn Robinson Waldman
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April 13, 1943
Marilyn Robinson Waldman | |
|---|---|
| Born | Marilyn Gail Robinson April 13, 1943 Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | July 8, 1996 (aged 53) Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
| Occupations | Historian, college professor |
| Children | Amy Waldman |
Marilyn Gail Robinson Waldman (April 13, 1943 – July 8, 1996)[1] was an American historian of Islam and Sufism, and a professor at Ohio State University from 1974 to 1996.
Waldman was born in Dallas, Texas,[2] the daughter of Morris Robinson (born (Mowsz Pintel) and Sophie Schwiff Robinson. Her parents were both Jewish immigrants from Poland. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1964, with a bachelor's degree in African history,[3][4] and earned a master's degree (1966) and Ph.D. (1974) from the University of Chicago, where she was the last doctoral student of Marshall Hodgson.[2]
Career
Waldman was a historian of Islam,[5][6] and a professor of history at Ohio State University from 1974 to 1996.[2] She also directed the university's Division of Comparative Studies in the Humanities,[7] and established its Religious Studies program.[4][8] She co-organized a symposium series on the history of Islam,[9] spoke to campus and community groups on Islam,[10][11] and won the Bjornson Humanities Award from the Ohio Humanities Council.[12] She contributed the "Islamic world" article to the Encyclopædia Britannica.[13] She was a member of the Middle East Studies Association.[4]
Her research was published in scholarly journals including The Journal of African History,[14] Africa: Journal of the International African Institute,[15] Journal of the American Oriental Society,[16] Journal of Interdisciplinary History,[17] Critical inquiry,[18] Journal of Developing Societies,[19] History of Religions,[20] and Journal of Religion in Africa.[21]
