Center for the Study of the Early Modern World

Assad (he/him) is a sufi dancer, computer biologist, molecular astronomer, medical historian, and historical medicine practitioner. Through a lifeway and scholarly framework of eshgh/union/love, demon-strative relation, mime, algol-rithmic flow, intersextual analysis, womb work, submission, and norooz/mirror gazing, Assad approaches scholarship as a practice of collective justice, intimate recovery, sacrality, and public health.

Assad’s larger dissertation project is a wide historical survey of anatomy theatre as colonial technology from the early modern era to today. At the Hay Library, he will be investigating Early Modern materials relating to the development of anatomical science and anatomy textbooks from a transatlantic and anticolonial perspective.