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Hussein Fancy
Assistant Prof/Post Doc Mich Society of Fellows
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2007
Contact Information:
University of Michigan
2641 Haven Hall
Phone:
734-647-5409
E-mail:
fancy@umich.edu
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Field(s) of Study:
Medieval Europe and North Africa; the Mediterranean; the Crusades; the Cultural, Social, and Intellectual History of Religious Interaction; Ritual, Violence, and Kingship; Latin, Arabic, Romance, and Judeo-Arabic Paleography.
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Biography:
Hussein Anwar Fancy received his Ph.D. in History from Princeton University and B.A. in English Literature from Yale University. He is currently working on two related projects based primarily on Latin, Arabic, and Romance archival sources from Spain. The first, entitled Mercenary Logic, attempts to rethink interconfessional interaction in medieval Iberia by mapping the alliances of Muslim holy warriors and bandits with Catalan kings during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century, a period of sovereign crisis. The second, tentatively entitled The Criminal Mediterranean, uses movements of smugglers, corsairs, pirates, and mercenaries to imagine the Mediterranean not as a multiconfessional utopia between Europe and North Africa but rather as a zone of competing laws and legitimacies that shaped as well as maintained religious and political boundaries from the twelfth to fourteenth centuries.
He has held fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays Program, the Social Science Research Council, the Medieval Academy of America, and Spain’s Ministry of Culture. He is currently a Junior Fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows.
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Current Projects:
"Smuggling Lives and Forging Captives in the Medieval Mediterranean," al-Qantara (forthcoming).
“The Last Almohad: ‘Abd al-Wahid b. Abi Dabbus in the Kingdoms of the Crown of Aragon (1262-1289)" (work-in-progress).
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