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Daisy Livingston Accepts Assistant Professorship at Durham University

27 July 2022

Daisy Livingston

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After three years at CSMC, Daisy Livingston will leave Hamburg by the end of this month to take up the position as Assistant Professor in History (900-1250 CE) at Durham University.

Daisy Livingston studied History, Islamic Studies, and Arabic in Edinburgh, Oxford, and London before joining the CSMC and the Cluster of Excellence in 2019 as a postdoc. In Hamburg, she became a member of 'Archiving Artefacts' (Research Field E) and was the Principal Investigator of the project 'Documentary Practice and Society in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Cairo: A Corpus of Arabic Documents from the Qaraite Jewish Community'.

At Durham, she will join the History Department, teaching medieval Islamic history and pursuing research on Arabic documents from medieval Egypt. 

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