Fariba Zarinebaf Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1991 Fields of Interest: Ottoman empire, social; Middle East. Email: fariba.zarinebaf@ucr.edu

Before coming to UCR, Zarinebaf taught at the University of Virginia as an assistant professor and at Northwestern University as a lecturer. She has also taught Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey as an assistant professor and at the University of Illinois at Chicago as a visiting assistant professor. Her areas of interest include the Ottoman Empire, Iran, the Eastern Mediterranean world, gender and Islamic law, urban and social history in the early modern and modern periods. She has published extensively on gender and Islam, Ottoman and Iranian urban and social history, and Balkan history. She has received two NEH post-doctoral fellowships for a project on the social history of crime and urban violence in Istanbul during the 18th century. She has received a University Faculty Summer Research Grant (UVa, 2008) for her project, "Intercommunal Life in 18th Century Istanbul: From Neighborhood to Law Courts" and a Faculty Research Grant from NU "Ottoman Cosmopolitanism: Negotiating Communal Boundaries in the Neighborhood, Law Courts, and Guilds in eighteenth-century Istanbul".

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