Petra Sijpesteijn#
Photo: M. Reichmann
| Membership Number: | 6412 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/petra-sijpesteijn#tab-1 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6615-469X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - present Professor of Arabic (chair), Leiden University. Humanities Faculty, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, School for Middle Eastern Studies. Program of Middle Eastern Studies, Section Arabic.
- 2007 - present Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche et d’histoire des texts (IRHT), Paris. Chargée de recherche
- 2020 - 2021 Senior Research Fellow, Historisches Kolleg, Munich
- 2013 - 2018 Director Leiden Center for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS), Leiden University, Leiden
- 2013 - 2014 Visiting scholar, Papyrology Institute, Austrian National Library, Vienna
- 2003 - 2007 Junior Research Fellow in Oriental Studies, Christ Church, Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Arabic philology
- Papyrology
- Empire studies
- Late Antique and early Islamic writing cultures
- Early and medieval Islamic history
- Oriental manuscript and book studies
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Correspondant étranger, Institut de France, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Paris
- 2014 - 2015 Member, Young Academy of Europe. Founding Board member (2012 - 2014)
- 2005 Department of Near Eastern Studies Thesis Award, Princeton University
- 2021 - 2022 (declined) Fellowship Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin
- 2020 - 2021 Senior Fellowship Historisches Kolleg, Munich
- 2016 - 2021 European Research Council, Consolidator Grant
- 2016 Polonsky Fellowship, Oxford University
- 2013 - 2014; 2023 - 2024. Research fellowship. Mellon Foundation, New York
- 2013 - 2014 (declined) Research fellowship. Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar, Netherlands
- 2009 - 2012 Netherlands Science Foundation (NWO), Netherlands. Internationalisation Humanities Network Grant
- 2009 - 2013 European Research Council, Starting Grant
- 2003 - 2006 (declined) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Fellowship Michigan Society of Fellows
- 2003 - 2006 (declined) Pembroke College, Cambridge. Abdullah Mubarak al-Sabah Research Fellowship
- 2003 - 2007 Junior Research Fellowship, Christ Church, Oxford
- 2002 - 2003 Harold W. Dodds Fellowship, Princeton University. Honorific Dissertation Completion Fellowship
- 2001 - 2002 Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University. Dissertation Research Award
- 2000 (declined) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Graduate internship in the Islamic Art Department
- 1997 - 1998 Fulbright Scholarship for MA programme Cornell University
