Matthew Sugrue

Masters Candidate

msugrue@dal.ca

I am just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit.  I took the midnight train going anywhere... and, strangely, I ended up at Dalhousie.  I earned my BA Honours degree at Dalhousie.  My research interests are Sufism, Government and State Structure in Medieval India and Islamic Philosophy.  My supervisor is Dr. Colin Mitchell.

Conferences:

• Dalhousie Graduate History Conference, History Across the Disciplies "The Anti-Sufi Rhetoric of the Reformist Wahhabi and Salafi" - March 14-16, 2008
• University of Toronto Graduate History Conference, Cultures in Contact "Third Time's a Charm:  Sufism and the Effects of Three 'Anti-Sufi' Renewal Movements" - February 8-9, 2008  

I am currently V.P. of the Graduate History Society as well as Conference Co-organizer
and Department Sweatshirt Organizer, 2007-2008 (Failed)

Favorite Color:  Blue.

Favorite Quote:  "But how did she eat the entire sweet potato"  Julia Mitchell, 2008