Noah Hastings
MPhil Student
Supervisor: Umberto Bongianino
College Affiliation: Harris Manchester College
Email: noah.hastings@ames.ox.ac.uk
Education:
- 2024–present: MPhil in Islamic Art and Architecture; thesis: Inscribed Fatimid Glass Discs: An Epigraphic Reappraisal
- 2015–2019: BA in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University; Certificates in Archaeology and Arabic Language and Culture; thesis: Robert Hamilton, Khirbat al-Mafjar, and Islamic Archaeology
Research Interests:
Arabic epigraphy and palaeography, Islamic numismatics, medieval Mediterranean weights and measures, archaeology of the Byzantine-Islamic transition, history of Islamic archaeology
Awards:
- Bayard and Cleveland Dodge Memorial Thesis Prize, 2019
- Frederick Barnard White Prize in Archaeology, 2019
- Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence, 2017
Other Experience:
- 2019–2023: Faculty Member, Department of History, Religion, and Society, King’s Academy (Madaba, Jordan)
