Norman Stillman
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'''Norman Arthur Stillman''', also Noam (נועם, in Hebrew), b. 1945, is the Schusterman-Josey Professor and [[Chair]] of [[Judaic]] History at the [[University of Oklahoma]]. He specializes on the intersection of [[Jew]]ish and [[Islam]]ic culture and history, and on [[Mizrahi Jews|Oriental]] and [[Sephardim|Sephardi]] Jewry, with special interest in the Jewish communities in [[North Africa]]. His major publications are ''The Jews of Arab Lands: a History And Source Book'' and ''Sephardi Religious Responses to Modernity''.
==Biography==
Stillman studied at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], receiving the [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] (''[[magna cum laude]]'') in 1967 and [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in [[Orientalism|Oriental Studies]] in 1970, [[Shelomo Dov Goitein]] being his thesis advisor. He was a post-doctoral [[fellow]] at the [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]]. He has received numerous academic honors, among them the [[Phi Beta Kappa]], the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the SUNY-Binghamton award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He delivered the Momigliano Lectures for the [[University of Chicago]]'s Committee on Social Thought and the Sherman Lectures for the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] at the [[University of London]]. He was Lady Davis Fellow at the [[Hebrew University]] in Jerusalem in 1994-1995 and visiting fellow at the [[Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies]] at [[Tel-Aviv University]]. He received the [[Ohio State University]] Melton Center's Distinguished Humanist award in 2000 and was a visiting scholar at l'Institut National des Langues et Civilisation Orientales in [[Paris]] in 2001-2002.<ref name="StaffStudentsUO">[http://www.ou.edu/cmrs/facstud.htm Staff and Students], Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Oklahoma</ref>
Stillman was married to the late [[Yedida Kalfon Stillman]], Professor of [[Near East]]ern History and Languages, also at the University of Oklahoma, with whom he worked closely.
==Research and activities==
Stillman's current research projects are the Jewish Society and Community in North Africa in the Modern Period and Jewish and Islamic Languages as cultural phenomena. His research has included work on modern [[folk medicine]], [[Magic (paranormal)|magic]], and [[Middle Ages|medieval]] [[pharmacology]], which have been published in "The Language and Culture of the Jews of Sefrou", as well as in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, and the Dictionary of the Middle Ages.<ref>[http://www.ou.edu/cas/hsci/affiliat.htm Department Affiliates and Associates], University of Oklahoma</ref> He was editor of the journal of the Association for Jewish Studies from 1989-1999. Stillman teaches courses in Medieval Jewish History, Jewish [[Historiography]], and the History of [[Judaism]].<ref name="StaffStudentsUO" /> In 2005, he held the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Committee annual public lecture of the Center for Arts and Humanities, [[University of Missouri]].<ref>[http://research.missouri.edu/CAH/grants.htm Grants Awarded in 2004-2005], Center for Arts and Humanities University of Missouri</ref>
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==Publications==
* ''The Jews of Arab Lands: A History and Source Book''(1979)
* ''The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times'' (1991)
* ''The Language and Culture of the Jews of Sefrou: An Ethnolinguistic Study'' (1988)
* ''Sephardi Religious Responses to Modernity'' (1995)
* ''Samuel Romanell's Travail in an Arab Land'' (1989, in collaboration with Yedida Kalfon Stillman)
* ''From Iberia to Diaspora: Studies in Sephardic History and Culture'' (1998)
* ''Sephardi Religious Responses to Modernity'' (1995)
* ''Meḥḳere 'edot u-Genizah'' (1981)
* ''Studies in Judaism and Islam'' presented to Shelomo Dov Goitein on the occasion of his eightieth birthday by his students, colleagues, and friends (1981)
* ''Arab Dress: A Short History: From the Dawn of Islam to Modern Times'' by Yedida Kalfon Stillman and edited by Norman A. Stillman (2000)
==External links==
* [http://www.ou.edu/cas/history/faculty_bio_stillman.html Stillman's entry] with the University of Oklahoma, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
* [http://w3fp.arizona.edu/judaic/Pozez/stillman.htm Stillman's entry] with the [[Arizona Center for Judaic Studies]]
* [http://bnaibrith.org/lbureau/full_bio.cfm?vs=74 Stillman's entry] with [[B'nai B'rith]] International
* [http://www.dailytargum.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=dff864b2-a1d9-4047-bbd5-fd7d63aed3e9 Dialogue addresses Jewish, Muslim history: N. Stillman speaks about Jewish-Muslim relations] by Chris Lang, [[The Daily Targum]], [[Rutgers University]], [[December 3]], 2002
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