Dr. Marco Zuccato | American University of Sharjah
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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of International Studies

Teaching areas

European History; Medieval History; History of Medicine; History of Science.

Research areas

Medieval History; Islamic History; History of Science; History of Medicine; Ancient and Medieval Philosophy; European History.

Education

Postdoctoral Degree in Medieval Studies, Medieval Studies, University of Toronto (PIMS), 2012
PhD, History And Philosophy Of Science, The University of Melbourne, Australia, 2005
Master, Medieval Philosophy, Universita' Statale di Milano, 2000

Professional experience

Assistant Professor, International Studies, American University of Sharjah, 2022 - Present
Assistant Professor, Hss, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait, 2015 - 2022
Assistant Professor, History, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico, 2011 - 2015

Memberships

The Medieval Academy of America, International, 8 February 2019

Contact

[email protected]

Dr. Marco Zuccato

Assistant Professor
PhD, The University of Melbourne, Australia

I received a Master in Philosophy from the University of Milan in 2000. I received a Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Melbourne in 2005. In 2013 I received a Postdoctoral degree (Licence in Mediaeval Studies) from the University of Toronto. I am currently Assistant Professor in History at the American University of Sharjah. I am interested in Medieval History, History of al-Andalus, History of Medieval Science, History of Medicine and History of Arabic Science. I have several publications related to Medieval History and the infiltration of Arabic Science to the Latin West during the early middle ages.

Publications

Marco Zuccato. Rethinking the Ninth-Century Islamic Presence in Peninsular Italy: A Perspective Through Islamic History and Politics, Al-masāq: Journal Of The Medieval Mediterranean, March 2024
Marco Zuccato. Arabic Science in Catalonia during the Tenth Century?, Archivum Bobiense 34 (2021), 2021
Marco Zuccato. Nobisque potius obaedire delegistis quam Hismahelitis: The Political Predicament of tenth-century Catalonia, Journal Of Medieval Iberian Studies, 2019
Marco Zuccato. Alice in Wonderland. A Glance at an Exotic World: the Forgotten Wonders of 10th Century Spain, Relaciones. Estudios De Historia Y Sociedad, 2016
Marco Zuccato. The Supremacy of Arabic Science: Astronomy and Mathematics in Tenth-Century Al-Andalus, Istor, 2016
Marco Zuccato. Arabic Singing Girls, the Pope and the Astrolabe: Arabic Science in tenth-century Latin Europe, Viator, 2014
Marco Zuccato. Gerbert of Aurillac and a Tenth-Century Jewish Channel for the Transmission of Arabic Science to the West, Speculum, 2005

Awards and Honors

Ian Langham Prize 2004, Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, 2004

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