George Hatke

George Hatke obtained his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 2011 and taught Arabic at the same institution (2008-2011). His interests include the ancient and early medieval history of Ethiopia, Nubia, and South Arabia, Red Sea and Indian Ocean trade, the origins of Islam, and comparative Semitics. He is in the process of turning his dissertation, Africans in Arabia Felix: Aksumite Relations with Himyar in the Sixth Century CE, into a monograph on the history of Ethiopian-Yemeni contact in late antiquity. Dr. Hatke’s article, “Holy Land and Sacred History: A View from Early Ethiopia,” will be published soon by Ashgate in Visions of Community in the Post-Roman World (ed. W. Pohl et al.).