R. Stephen Humphreys
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R. Stephen Humphreys is an American historian specializing in the history of south-west Asia and north Africa. He was the 'Abd al-Aziz al-Sa'ud Professor at the University of California, Santa Barabara and is now an emiritus professor at that institution.
Humphreys received a PhD from the University of Michigan in 1969.
Humphreys' Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age has been widely reviewed and cited as a good introductory work on the region.[1]
A festschrift was published in his honor by the Darwin Press based on lectures given at a conference at the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota.[2]
Sources
- Contributor listing, The Cambridge History of Egypt, Vol. 1, Islamic Egypt 640-1517
- UCSB website
