She teaches history courses on the Crusades, Medieval Europe, Medieval Travelers, Slavery in the Premodern World, Gold and Spices: Medieval Europe and the Rise of Capitalism and a humanities core class on The Search for Values in the Light of Western History and Religion. While Barker’s tenure-track position is technically devoted to medieval Europe her ARCE Fellowship in Egypt [2010-2011] and earlier research in Italy provided her with an opportunity to expand her professional network to include scholars working on a variety of topics and disciplines related to the Muslim world. This broadened network has led to her involvement in promoting an enhanced teaching of the Quran at Rhodes as part of their “great books” syllabus. http://rhodes.academia.edu/HannahBarker