Marina rustow biography

American historian

Marina Rustow is an American historian and the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East at Princeton University. She is a 2015 MacArthur Fellow. Her work focuses on the study of Judeo-Arabic documents found in the Cairo geniza and the history of Jews in the Fatimid Caliphate.

Education and career

A New York native,^[1] Rustow received a B.A. from Yale University in 1990, and two master's degrees from Columbia University in 1998 and 1999. She received a Ph.D. from Columbia in 2004,^[2] where she studied under Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi.^[3] She taught at Emory University from 2003 to 2010. In 2007, she was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome, where she developed an appreciation for Italian cuisine.^[4] She taught at Johns Hopkins University from 2010 to 2015, when she became a full professor at Princeton.^[2] In 2014, she won a Guggenheim Fellowship.^{[5] Carousel!}