MESA Banner
Rebecca Gruskin
Hamilton College
Occupation
Visiting Assistant/Associate Professor
Contact
Department of History, Hamilton College
198 College Hill Rd
Clinton NY 13323
United States
ABOUT
Rebecca Gruskin is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Hamilton College. She was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow in Global History at Queen's University at Kingston.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Maghreb Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Political Economy
Labor History
Environment
Colonialism
World History
Nationalism
Health
Geographic Areas of Interest
Tunisia
Maghreb
Mediterranean Countries
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Anti-colonial / Labor Resistance
Capitalism, Colonialism, Environment
Phosphate Mining In Tunisia (Gafsa)
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
German (intermediate)
Italian (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2021 | History | Stanford University
MA | 2015 | History | Stanford University
BA | 2011 | History | Harvard University
Abstracts
Phosphates: Local Dissidence and Global Agriculture in Gafsa, Tunisia, 1890s-1970s Nationalism in a Transnational Place: Communists and Nationalists in Tunisia’s Gafsa Mining Basin (1940s-1960s) For the Sake of Greener Fields: Tunisian Phosphates and Global Capitalism in the Interwar Period “A Known Occupational Disease:” Silicosis, Cancer, and the Transnational Biopolitics of Medicine in Tunisia’s Gafsa Phosphate Mines (1920s-1980s) Labor Embodied: Organizational Strategies and Survival Strategies in the Gafsa Mineworkers 1937 Strike The Nature of Illness: Manufacturing Germs, Space, Gender, and Race in Tunisia’s Gafsa Phosphate Mines (1920s-1980s)