Current Member
Joel Blecher
Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
Islamic History, History of Capitalism
Home Institution
The George Washington University
Website
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.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
–
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
2016-2018
Council of American Overseas Research Centers Multi-country Fellowship
2018
American Council of Learned Societies 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