Chapman joined the Islamic studies subfield within the Department of Religion in 2019, having earned her BA in Religion at Washington and Lee University in 2015.  Her research examines how the spread of Western medicine and the development of public health as a field impacted Muslim identities during the British Raj. In the fall of 2022 she will be the University Administrative Fellow in the Princeton Center for Language Study. Prior to coming to Princeton, she lived in Jordan and the Democratic Republic of Congo and spent many months in language intensives in France and the Middle East. She hopes to use her background in language study to contribute to PCLS’s wide-ranging programming for both students and staff.

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