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A. Tylor Brand
Trinity College Dublin
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact

Ireland
ABOUT
Tylor Brand is an Assistant Professor in the Near and Middle Eastern Studies Department at Trinity College in Dublin. His research focuses on the history of disaster in Lebanon and Greater Syria and how individuals adapted to changes in their daily lives during periods of crisis. He has published a number of articles on the experience and effects of the famine of World War I in Syria and Lebanon in conference proceedings and contributed six entries to 1914-1918 Online, the online encyclopedia of World War I. He is currently developing a website called "Historical Dregs," which explores history through odd primary sources.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Environment
Health
History Of Medicine
Mediterranean Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Ottoman Studies
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Lebanon
Syria
Ottoman Empire
The Levant
Specialties
Famine In World War I
Late Ottoman Lebanon
History Of Disease And Disaster
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
Spanish (advanced)
English (native)
Education
PhD | 2014 | History | American University of Beirut
MA | 2009 | Near Eastern Studies | University of Arizona
BA | 2005 | History, Philosophy | University of Arizona
Abstracts
Suffering in the Eye of the Storm: The Emotional Toll of the Famine in World War I on Relief Workers in Beirut and Mount Lebanon Compassion Fatigue and the Burden of Other People’s Poverty in the Syrian Famine of World War I An Immoral Economy? The Hidden Virtue of Circumventing Borders and Defying Authority in the Lebanese Famine of WWI Death and Praxis: The Lebanese Famine of World War I and the Problem of Mortality in Crisis Historiography