Dr. Posegay is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Cambridge Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies where he researches interfaith exchange in the intellectual history of Middle Eastern languages. He earned his PhD as a Gates Cambridge Scholar in Middle Eastern Studies (2021) and a member of Corpus Christi College. Previously, he completed a BA in Near Eastern Languages/Religious Studies (2016) and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies (2017) at the University of Chicago. He is also an Affiliated Researcher of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit and the Cambridge Interfaith Forum. He is the author of "The Illustrated Cairo Genizah" (Gorgias Press, 2024) and an award-winning monograph, "Points of Contact" (Open Book Publishers, 2021).
Posegay, Nick and Melonie Schmierer-Lee. 2024. The Illustrated Cairo Genizah. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press.
Arabic, Syriac, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, Cairo Genizah, manuscripts, intellectual history