George T. Scanlon Graduate Student Award Ceremony

Richard McGregor

Associate Professor of Religion and Islamic Studies, Vanderbilt University

Richard McGregor earned his PhD from McGill University (2001), and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale in Cairo (2001-2003). His primary field of research is medieval Egypt and Syria, with a focus on intellectual history, visual culture, and Sufism. He is the author of Sanctity and Mysticism in Medieval Egypt (SUNY, 2004) and Islam and the Devotional Object: Seeing Religion in Egypt and Syria (CUP, 2020). He is also co-editor of two volumes on Egyptian Sufism, in addition to a tenth-century Iraqi philosophical fable, The Case of Animals versus Man before the King of the Jinn (OUP, 2014). He is currently a research fellow at the American Research Center in Egypt.