Department of History

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Julia Balakrishnan

Ph.D. Candidate
julia_balakrishnan@brown.edu
Advisor: Amy Remensnyder
Research Interests Interreligious interactions; the High Medieval Mediterranean; the Islamic World; pluralistic identities.

Biography

"My research interests are miscellaneous, but they are all at heart the same thing: how a person's religious identity affected their experience of the Middle Ages. Larger projects include a comparative analysis of travelogues from Jewish, Muslim, and Christian travelers to the Holy Land in the 12th century, and a study of how Mediterranean meat markets operated within multicultural communities."