Antoine Borrut Wins NEH Fellowship

NEH Grant for UMD Historian

Antoine Borrut was recently awarded a 2023 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to finish his book project on the topic, “Astrology and the Construction of Historical Knowledge in Early Islam.” He is one of only two NEH grant recipients at UMD College Park in this award cycle. His research project seeks to establish the key role that astrologers played in constructing historical knowledge in the early Islamic world from the seventh to tenth centuries.

See more details in the ARHU Newsroom HERE.