Logan J. Sherrill

Logan J. Sherrill is an M.A. student in the Roshan GIDP in Persian & Iranian Studies. An Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Graduate Fellow and FLAS Fellow for the 2025-2026 academic year, he previously received his B.A. in History from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and focuses on the history of the early Medieval Islamic world (c.750-1258 CE) with a particular focus on the intersections of historiography, caliphal/dynastic power dynamics, material conditions, and Persian cultural memory. He is currently working on several research projects including a new analysis of Ḥamza al-Iṣfahānī’s Tāʾrīkh sinī mulūk al-ʾarḍ wa-l-anbīyāʾ (to be presented at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting in November 2025) and research for his master's thesis, tentatively titled “Abū Muslim al-Khurāsānī in the Early Medieval Persian Memory: ʿAbbāsid-era Historiography and the Transition to Shīʿī Romantic Hero.”