Dr Fanny Bessard
Paris-Oxford Partnership Fellow 2024-2025
Associate Professor in Medieval Eurasian History
Dr Fanny Bessard is a historian of early and Classical Islam with expertise in Arabic historiography, as well as a practicing archaeologist with a decade of field experience in the Middle East and Central Asia. Before joining Oxford, she held a Newton fellowship at SOAS (2013-15), a Leverhulme ECF at the University of St Andrews (2015-16) and a Lecturership in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol (2016-19).
