Heather Sharkey
Heather J. Sharkey is Professor and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches Middle Eastern and North African history, and where she received the Charles Ludwig Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Sciences. She previously taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Trinity College in Connecticut. She was a Visiting Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris during the 2012-13 year. She holds degrees from Yale (Anthropology, BA, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa), the University of Durham (Middle Eastern Studies, MPhil), and Princeton (History, PhD). She has won fellowships including the Marshall, Fulbright-Hays, and Carnegie. Her books include Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (University of California Press 2003); American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire(Princeton University Press 2008); and A History of Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press 2017). She has edited Cultural Conversions: Unexpected Consequences of Christian Missions in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (Syracuse University Press 2013); with Mehmet Ali Doğan, American Missionaries and the Middle East: Foundational Encounters (University of Utah Press, 2011); and with Jeffrey Edward Green, The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). She teaches a popular seminar at Penn on the history of food in the Islamic Middle East, and since 2021 has hosted an online series, sponsored by her department, entitled, “Bite-Sized Talks: Middle Eastern Food and Foodways across History.” She also edits a new book series for Edinburgh University Press on “Food and Foodways in the Middle East, North Africa, and Their Diasporas.”
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