CONTRIBUTOR:

Arnold Franklin

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies

DEPARTMENT:

History

INSTITUTION:

Queens College

BIOGRAPHY:

Professor Arnold Franklin received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and earned his PhD in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He has taught at New York University, University of California, Davis, and Hunter College. Dr. Franklin’s research focuses on medieval Jewish history in the Arabic-speaking world. His first book, This Noble House: Jewish Descendants of King David in the Islamic East (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), explores the profound concern with lineage that developed among Jews living in Muslim lands during the Middle Ages.