The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk.

Jennifer Derr has her B.S. from Stanford University; M.A., Georgetown University; Ph.D., Stanford. Areas of academic interest include modern Middle Eastern history, African history, Ottoman Empire, early Islamic history. Fellow, Society of Junior Fellows in British Studies, University of Texas at Austin (2009–10); James Birdsall Weter Memorial Fund Dissertation Grant (2008–09); Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2007–08). Has taught at American University in Cairo, University of California at Davis, Stanford University. Articles in Arab Studies Journal, Middle East Report, Molecular and Cellular Biology. At Bard since 2010.