Biography
Tehseen Thaver is an Assistant Professor of Religion specializing in Qur’anic hermeneutics at Bard College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Thaver has previously taught at Lehigh University, where she served as Andrew W. Mellon Research Scholar, and at UNC–Chapel Hill. She has received numerous fellowships and awards for research projects and study in Iran and Turkey. Her publications include the monographs, Ambiguity, Hermeneutics, and the Formation of Religious Identity in Early Islam (in process); Listen: Conversations with CemalNur Sargut (ed.) (forthcoming, Fons Vitae, 2015); and Twelver Shi’i Exegesis, in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies (2012). Thaver is fluent in Arabic, Persian and Urdu, and is a member of the American Academy of Religion, Middle East Studies Association, and American Oriental Society. She has been at Bard since 2014.