Professor Michael Dann, Religion, named CAS Fellow for 2019-20

Michael Dann, Assistant Professor of Religion, has been named a Center for Advanced Study (CAS) Fellow for 2019-20, pending Board of Trustees approval.

CAS Fellows are untenured U of I faculty members whose proposals are selected in an annual competition. These appointments grant one semester of teaching release time in order to pursue an individual scholarly or creative project.

Dann’s research interests include Early Islamic history, medieval and modern Islamic thought, sectarianism, Sunnism and Shi’ism, hadith, biographical literature, historical memory, and modern Islamic historiography.

CAS Fellows also participate in a yearly roundtable discussion of research interests and are invited to offer a future CAS presentation.