Nadia is a cultural and intellectual historian of medieval Jews in the Middle East, with a strong focus on Qaraism. Nadia holds a PhD in Hebrew Studies from Cambridge (2010), an MA in Jewish Studies (major), Islamic Studies (minor) and General Linguistics (minor) from the University of Cologne (2004) and a Diploma in Bio-physics from Saratov State University, Russia (2000). In her PhD and early post-doctoral research, Nadia studied Qaraite treatises on Biblical Hebrew grammar, focusing on the Qaraite approaches to Biblical Hebrew verbal morphology, and worked on the transmission of grammatical knowledge between the Muslim and the Jewish cultures. Nadia's more recent research has been on the history of the Jewish calendar, both Qaraite and Rabbanite, and the socio-historical implications of calendar diversity. In a separate project, Nadia explored the possibility of using datable calendar fragments from the Cairo Genizah as points of comparison for handwriting analysis.
Nadia’s book publications include:
(in preparation), Saadya Gaon's Works on the Jewish Calendar: Near Eastern Sources and Transmission to the West
(2019) Stern, S., with the collaboration of M. Rustow, N. Vidro, R. Vollandt, The Jewish Calendar Controversy of 921/2 CE, Brill, Leiden/Boston
(2013), A Medieval Karaite Pedagogical Grammar of Hebrew: A Critical Edition of English Translation of Kitāb al-ʿUqūd fī Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-ʿIbrāniyya, Brill, Leiden/Boston
(2011), Verbal Morphology in the Karaite Treatise on Hebrew Grammar Kitāb al-ʿUqūd fī Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-ʿIbrāniyya, Brill, Leiden/Boston
Nadia joins the Invisible East programme as an Editorial Fellow, responsible for seeing through the publication of the programme's edited volumes, especially State Documents from the Medieval Islamicate World.
