Dr. Courtney Lesoon
Dr. Courtney Lesoon is a historian of Islamic art, architecture, and urbanism. She earned her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where her doctoral work was supported by the U.S. Department of Education’s Fulbright-Hays program and the Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Foundation. Her research on the early and medieval Islamic world engages closely with primary sources to address Islamic visual and built culture from an Islamic perspective. As a pedagogue, Courtney is interested in how the study of the premodern and non-Western world encourages students to become more flexible and agile thinkers.
