Amal Sachedina is a research associate and lecturer at the Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University. She completed her PhD in socio-cultural anthropology and Middle East studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has taught courses on anthropology and Middle East studies at a number of universities, including the American University, George Washington University, and George Mason University, and was Aga Khan visiting professor in Islamic Humanities at Brown University. She has held postdoctoral research fellowships at the National University of Singapore, George Washington University, and the American Museum of Natural History. Sachedina has been the recipient of a number of fellowships including The Fulbright (IIE), The Fulbright-Hays (DDRA), Andrew Mellon Foundation, Aga Khan Foundation, the British Foundation for Arabia, and the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA). In fostering an inter-disciplinary approach to the study of material culture, she earned a BA in archaeology from the University of Michigan and an M.Phil. in Islamic Art and Archaeology from Oxford University. She has been a research consultant for World Heritage advisory bodies such as ICOMOS (International Council for Monuments and Sites) and ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property).
