Dr. Kurt J. Werthmuller joined AUD in August 2016. He previously worked as a Senior Analyst at CyberPoint International in Abu Dhabi. In the US, he was Research Fellow at Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C.; Associate Professor of History at Azusa Pacific University in California; and Assistant Professor of History at the Geneva College in Pennsylvania. His primary scholarly interest is in the nexus of politics, religion, and society in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean during the Islamic Middle Period (10th-13th centuries CE), with a particular research interest in the evolving status of non-Muslim communities in that context. He has also worked on modern Egyptian politics and society as well as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and other issues of contemporary regional interest, and he “flirts” with historical study in Late Antiquity and its fusion with the early Islamic world. His hobbies include hiking and camping in the Great Outdoors, reading for pleasure, going to the movies, playing acoustic guitar, and going for the occasional run (when the weather cooperates).

Islamic & Middle Eastern History, Middle Eastern Studies, History