{"id":7478,"date":"2025-01-25T23:09:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T23:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/?p=7478"},"modified":"2025-02-14T01:28:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T01:28:50","slug":"dr-craig-perry-phd-2014-presents-new-research-on-mediaeval-africa-through-lens-of-jewish-merchants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2025\/01\/25\/dr-craig-perry-phd-2014-presents-new-research-on-mediaeval-africa-through-lens-of-jewish-merchants\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Craig Perry (PhD, &#8217;14) Presents New Research on Medieval Africa through Lens of Jewish Merchants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/01\/craig-perry_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/01\/craig-perry_2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/01\/craig-perry_2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/01\/craig-perry_2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/01\/craig-perry_2-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mesas.emory.edu\/people\/biographies\/Perry-Craig.html\">Dr. Craig Perry<\/a>, a 2014 alum of the Emory History doctoral program and currently Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Jewish Studies in Emory&#8217;s Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, presented new research at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, England, in the summer of 2024. Based on a new English translation and analysis of a twelfth-century letter written by a Jewish merchant, Perry&#8217;s research offers new perspectives on the social history of medieval African societies and peoples. Read his reflection on the presentation, and elaboration on the research, here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/js.emory.edu\/news\/news-stories-container\/Prof.%20Craig%20Perry%20Presents%20Paper%20at%20the%20International%20Medieval%20Congress.html\">Prof. Craig Perry Presents Paper at the International Medieval Congress<\/a>.&#8221; Perry completed his dissertation, &#8220;The Daily Life of Slaves and the Global Reach of Slavery in Medieval Egypt, 969-1250 CE,&#8221; under the advisement of <a href=\"https:\/\/history.princeton.edu\/people\/marina-rustow\">Marina Rustow<\/a> (faculty from 2003-2010).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Craig Perry, a 2014 alum of the Emory History doctoral program and currently Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Jewish Studies in Emory&#8217;s Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, presented new research at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, England, in the summer of 2024. Based on a new English translation and analysis of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-alumni","category-conferences","category-research","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7489,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions\/7489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}