Philip Wood#
| Membership Number: | 7060 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.aku.edu/ismc/people/Pages/philip-wood.aspx |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 Tejpar Professor in Inter-Religious Studies, AKU-ISMC
- 2019 Professor, AKU-ISMC
- 2014 Associate Professor, AKU-ISMC
- 2012 Assistant Professor, AKU-ISMC
- 2010 Osborne Fellow in Medieval History, Sidney Sussex college, Cambridge
- 2008 Temporary Lecturer, SOAS
- 2007 Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi college, Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Historiography
- Hagiography
- Sasanian empire
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Christian Orient
- Syriac
- Eastern Roman empire
- Christian Arabic
- Minorities under Muslim rule
Honours and Awards
- 2007 British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship
- 2016 - 2017 British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award: Academia and Digital Media
- 2018 - 2019 British Academy Mid-career Fellowship
- 2022 Aga Khan University, Research Award
- 2022 Aga Khan University Leaping Leopard award for the project ‘Group Formation and Maintenance in the Abbasid caliphate, 750-1000’
- 2023 Gerda Henkel award for ‘Group Formation and Maintenance in the Abbasid caliphate, 750-1000’
- 2024 British Academy Conference Grant
- 2024 Aga Khan University, Distinguished Leadership Award
