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Valentina A. Grasso
Valentina A. Grasso is an assistant professor of medieval history at Bard College. She was previously an assistant professor of semitics at The Catholic University of America in Washington (D. C.), a visiting assistant professor at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and an affiliate member of the ERC project ‘The Qur'an as a Source for Late Antiquity’. Valentina is currently part of the committee of the London Society for Medieval Studies and a chair of the SBL/IQSA ‘Qur'an and Late Antiquity’ programme unit. Valentina holds a Ph.D. (Divinity, 2021) from the University of Cambridge, where she completed her doctoral dissertation which came out as a monograph (Pre-Islamic Arabia: Societies, Politics, Cults, and Identities during Late Antiquity) published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. She is currently working on her second monograph while co-editing a volume on Indic imagery (Brepols, 2024) and a Special Issue on Arabian epigraphy and early Islam.
Contact: Historical Studies Program, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504, USA.