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David Nirenberg

Advisory Board Member
Director and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton

Director and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study.

At the University of Chicago, Nirenberg served as Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences; Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought, History, Divinity, Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College; Executive Vice Provost; and Interim Dean of the Divinity School.

A historian and author, Nirenberg is recognized for wide-ranging scholarship on the interaction of Christians, Jews, and Muslims in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean. His research provides timely insight into questions of racism, Anti-Semitism, and Christian-Muslim relations.

Portrait of Director and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, David Nirenberg