Welcome! My name is Shireen. I am a historian and artist living in Chicago.

I work on the history of science, medicine, and culture, and bring collaborative, embodied and artistic research methods to my work. I teach in university and prison contexts, and have learned immensely from students in both.

As a postdoc at Northwestern, I am teaching and working on a book, Environment & Medicine in Medieval Islam. This project draws on Arabic and Persian medical manuscripts from across the western Indian Ocean world to investigate the role of local communities and environments in creating the "Islamic" medical tradition.

I have explored my scholarly interests through sound, moving image, and movement research, for example, through workshops for people to explore the history of humoral medicine through improvised movement.