Hagit Nol is a landscape archaeologist of Early Islam, roughly the 7th-10th centuries in western Asia and North and East Africa. Herl research interests involve economic and social history of the early medieval period and the transfer of knowledge and ideas. Following early studies in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, she completed a PhD at Universität Hamburg in Germany on settlement patterns in central Israel/Palestine during the 7th-11th centuries.