Pre-modern South Asian history and cultural history; languages and literatures of southern India (Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada); Sanskrit language and literature; Carnatic music; history of religion in South India; Tamil Islam; South Asian poetics; Sri Lankan Tamil
Intellectual currents and imperial horizons in the first millennium CE, from Augustus to Avicenna, Central Asia to the Atlantic. Emergent Islam in its late antique context
Social, economic, and cultural history of the late antique Mediterranean; the transformation of the Roman empire into a predominantly Christian one; slavery, “Augustine the Economist,” imperial representation, war and resilience
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