Valentina A. Grasso Joins Bard College as Assistant Professor of Medieval History in the Division of Social Studies

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—Bard College’s Division of Social Studies is pleased to announce the appointment of Valentina A. Grasso as Assistant Professor of Medieval History. Her tenure-track appointment will begin in the fall of the 2023–24 academic year.

Grasso is currently an assistant professor of Semitics at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. She was previously visiting assistant professor at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, an affiliate member of the European Research Council (ERC) project "The Qur'an as a Source for Late Antiquity," and of the Cambridge Silk Road Program, which focuses on the study of the history and culture of the Silk Road countries. She is part of the committee of the London Society for Medieval Studies and a chair of the Society of Biblical Literature and International Qur'anic Studies Association (SBL/IQSA) “Qur'an and Late Antiquity” Program Unit. 

Grasso 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. 
About Bard College
Founded in 1860, Bard College is a four-year, residential college of the liberal arts and sciences located 90 miles north of New York City. With the addition of the Montgomery Place estate, Bard’s campus consists of nearly 1,000 parklike acres in the Hudson River Valley. It offers bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and bachelor of music degrees, with majors in more than 40 academic programs; graduate degrees in 13 programs; eight early colleges; and numerous dual-degree programs nationally and internationally. Building on its 163-year history as a competitive and innovative undergraduate institution, Bard College has expanded its mission as a private institution acting in the public interest across the country and around the world to meet broader student needs and increase access to liberal arts education. The undergraduate program at our main campus in upstate New York has a reputation for scholarly excellence, a focus on the arts, and civic engagement. Bard is committed to enriching culture, public life, and democratic discourse by training tomorrow’s thought leaders. For more information about Bard College, visit bard.edu.
 

This event was last updated on 03-28-2023

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