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Susanna Ferguson
Smith College
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Education
Gender/Women's Studies
Islamic Thought
Ottoman Studies
Pedagogy
Geographic Areas of Interest
Lebanon
Egypt
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
History Of Women And Gender In The Middle East
Arab Intellectual History
History Of Education And Pedagogy
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
Ottoman (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2019 | History | Columbia University
MA | 2012 | Middle Eastern Studies | New York University
BA | 2009 | History | Yale University
Abstracts
Tracing Tarbiya: Educating Children across the Nineteenth Century Divide Maids, Servants, and Wet-Nurses in the Arabic Women's Press On The Study of Heavenly Bodies: Girls’ Education in Ottoman Mount Lebanon Before the Utilitarian Age The Mother State: Discipline, Moral Cultivation, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Early Twentieth-Century Egypt Schooling and the Education of Desire in Late-Ottoman Beirut and Mt. Lebanon The Laboring Body: Pregnancy, Breastfeeding, and the Porous Body in the Arabic Women's Press The Mystery of the Travelling Plant: George Post's Herbarium and the Problem of the "Native" Weed