Tonicha Upham

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Tonicha Upham is a Past & Present Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, London. Her current postdoctoral project focuses on comparative approaches to funerary sacrifice in medieval Arabic geographical texts. She defended her thesis, "Rūs Gender in Islamicate Sources: The Transmission of Geographical and Historical Ideas on the North in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish between the Third and Eleventh Centuries AH/Ninth and Seventeenth Centuries AD", at Aarhus University in 2023.

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Past and Present Research Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
  • 2023–2023
    Joint fellowship in Nordic-Byzantine relations, Koç University Mustafa v. Koç Maritime Archaeology Research Center (KUDAR) and the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul
  • 2023–2023
    Research Assistant, Aarhus University
  • 2019–2023
    PhD Fellow, Aarhus University
  • 2022–2022
    Visiting Research Fellow, Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul

Education

  • 2023 
    Aarhus University, PhD, History
  • 2019 
    University of Iceland, MA, Viking and Medieval Norse Studies

Publications

  • 2024
    Rus Women in Islamicate Geography? Approaching a Study of Gender, The Making of the Eastern Vikings: Rus and Varangians in the Middle Ages, ed. Sverrir Jakobsson, Thórir Jónsson Hraundal, and Daria Segal
  • 2023
    “Here I am, in this far-off land where we are now”: Encountering and Observing Rūs Women in Ibn Faḍlān’s Risala, Medieval Mobilities: Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements in the Middle Ages, ed. Basil Arnould Price, Jane Bonsall, and Meagan Koury
  • 2022
    Keeping Abreast of Foreign Fashions: Rationalizing Rūs Brooches in a Sixteenth-Century Persian Version of Ibn Faḍlān’s Risala, Medieval Encounters
  • 2022
    A Closer Look: Arabic Descriptions of the Rus, RUS - Vikings in the East, ed. Pauline Asingh and Kristian Jensen
  • 2022
    Ved nærmere øjesyn: Arabiske beskrivelser af rusvikingerne, RUS – Vikinger i Øst, red. Pauline Asingh og Kristian Jensen

Grants and Contracts

  • 2023
    North and South: Comparative Sacrificial Geographies in Medieval Arabic Sources
    Role:
    Postdoctoral Researcher, own project
    Funding Source:
    Past & Present
  • 2022
    Sidelined Sources on the North
    Role:
    Visiting Researcher, own project
    Funding Source:
    Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul
  • 2019
    Legends of the Eastern Vikings
    Role:
    MA student
    Funding Source:
    The Icelandic Centre for Research

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