Logan J. Sherrill

Logan J. Sherrill is an M.A. student in the Roshan GIDP in Persian & Iranian Studies. He previously received his B.A. in History from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he was advised by Dr. A. Asa Eger. His research focuses on the history of the early Medieval Islamic period (c.750-1258 CE) with a particular focus on the intersections of historiography, caliphal/dynastic power, and collective cultural memory. He is currently working on several research projects including a Foucauldian analysis of Ḥamza al-Iṣfahānī’s Tāʾrīkh sinī mulūk al-ʾarḍ wa-l-anbīyāʾ, a discourse analysis of Christian polemics in Umayyad Spain (with Petr Franc of Charles University), and preliminary research for his master's thesis on the memory of Tabaristan and Daylam in early Medieval Islamic historiography.