Kristina Richardson
- Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy, University of Virginia
Kristina Richardson is the John L. Nau Professor of History and Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2012, and Roma in the Medieval Islamic Word: Literacy, Culture and Migration, published by I.B. Tauris in 2022. In this latest book, she produced a critical analysis of the literary and print cultures of the Roma and other travelling communities in medieval Afro-Eurasia. For this innovative work, she was awarded the 2022 Dan David Prize and the 2023 Monica H. Green Award for Distinguished Medieval Research.
Events
Democracy360 Event
Democracy Across Cultures
How are practices and concepts related to democracy articulated in different cultural contexts? Faculty members gather to discuss three specific examples: the classical ancient world, indigenous Latin America, and Islamic societies.