AAS Assistant Professor Maryam Kashani has been awarded one of two Junior Research Fellowships by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory for her project "Medina by the Bay: An Islamic Ethics of Difference and Survival in the Bay Area."

As a Junior Fellow, Professor Kashani will be provided with funds for conducting her research, as well as a manuscript workshop organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. We look forward to the development of her work over the next two years!