Joining the Boise State faculty for the Department of History, Dr. Karen C. Pinto specializes in a number of historical areas particularly Islamic cartography and Middle Eastern History. She earned her Ph.d, M.Phil, and M.A. in History from Columbia University, and has taught at the Gettysburg College and The American University of Beirut. She has participated in a number of college workshops including such topics as digital humanities, student research, and of course Middle Eastern Studies. Dr. Pinto’s professional service includes being a review panelist for the NEH, and peer-reviewing articles for "Al-Qantara and "Medieval Encounters". Her new book "Ways of Seeing Islamic Maps" will be published in 2015 and she has recently received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for 2014-15 to work on a book project on "The Mediterranean in the Islamic Cartographic Imagination."