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Matthew Hal Ellis
Sarah Lawrence College
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: (914) 395-2310
Sarah Lawrence College
1 Mead Way
Bronxville NY 10708
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Colonialism
History Of Science
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
World History
Ottoman Studies
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Ottoman Empire
Palestine
Turkey
Specialties
Borderlands In Modern Middle Eastern History
Space And Place In Middle Eastern Studies
Nation-state Formation And National Territoriality
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Spanish (advanced)
Turkish (intermediate)
Ottoman (intermediate)
French (advanced)
Italian (elementary)
Persian (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2012 | History | Princeton University
MPhil | 2005 | Modern Middle Eastern Studies | University of Oxford
Abstracts
Egypt's Wild West? Maps, the Desert, and the Taming of the Western Frontier, 1890-1925 Power, Piety, and Political Identity at the Margins: the Case of the Sanusiyya Drawing a Line in the Sand? Ottomans, Italians, Bedouins, and the Making of the Egyptian Western Border Crisis, 1902-1916 Bedouin Mobility and the Emergence of an Egypt-Benghazi Borderland Rethinking Territoriality in the Egyptian-Libyan Borderland Libyan Cross-Border Mobility and Italian Colonial Citizenship, 1911-1942