Past Member
Joel Blecher
Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Member
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of study
Islamic History, History of Capitalism
Website
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Joel Blecher is a scholar of Islamic history and Islamic thought. At IAS, he will be writing a new history of the transoceanic spice routes of the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, and will explore how Islamic visions of a moral economy came to dominate the ethics of world trade prior to the rise of modern capitalism.
Visits
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Spring
Degrees
Princeton University
Ph.D.
2013
Princeton University
M.A.
2010
Swarthmore College
B.A.
2004
Honors
2019-2020
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
2018-2020
Kluge Fellowship, Library of Congress
2018
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
2016-2018
Council of American Overseas Research Centers Multi-country Fellowship
Appointments
The George Washington University
2022
Associate Professor of History
The George Washington University
2016–2022
Assistant Professor of History
Washington & Lee University
2013–2016
Assistant Professor of Religion