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Kristen Stilt Middle East; Law Phone: (312) 503-1486 E-mail: stilt |
Kristen Stilt (Ph.D. Harvard University, 2004) is an Associate Professor in the School of Law at Northwestern and holds a joint appointment in the History Department. Her areas of focus are Islamic law and socio-legal history of the Islamic world. She is particularly interested in how social, political, and economic circumstances influenced legal interpretation. She has received grants from Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, the American Research Center in Egypt, the Mellon Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Carnegie Corporation. Her book manuscript derived from her dissertation, entitled Law and Order in Medieval Cairo, is currently under revision for publication. Her dissertation was awarded the Malcolm Kerr Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention, by the Middle East Studies Association. |
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