Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Murray State University
Department of History
6B Faculty Hall
Murray
KY
42071
United States
ABOUT
I am a historian of gender and the entangled history of Middle Eastern, American and European encounters. My primary research focuses on the history of the Protestant Church in the Levant, specifically Lebanon. I am continuing my research on American Protestant missionaries in Ottoman Syria during the early to mid-nineteenth century and the development of a Protestant community in Lebanon. My research focuses on the ways that women, both American and Syrian, performed, negotiated and subverted their gendered identities and the impact of the family on the development of the Protestant community. I served as the inaugural director of the Preserving Protestant Heritage in the Middle East project at the Near East School of Theology in Beirut, Lebanon and have also taught at the University of Balamand. I am currently based in Philadelphia, PA.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Gender/Women's Studies
Christian Studies
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Lebanon
North America
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Amer Missionaries To Lebanon/Beirut
Euro-Amer Women's Perceptions On Islam
Languages
Arabic (elementary)
French (intermediate)
Spanish (elementary)
Education
DPhil
| 2009
| Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
| University of Edinburgh
Abstracts
The “very peculiar trials” of Susan Wortabet: An intersectional study of an entangled history in late Ottoman Syria
Transnational Family Networks in Ottoman Syria: The Case of the DeForest Family
