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Heather J. Sharkey
University of Pennsylvania
Occupation
Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: 215-746-0176
Fax: 215-573-9617
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
University of Pennsylvania 225 South 36th Street, 847 Wil
Philadelphia PA 19104
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
History Of Religion
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Nationalism
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Egypt
Maghreb
Sudan
Specialties
Comp Colonialism
Muslim-Christian Rltns
Sudanese & Egyptian Hist
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Education
PhD | 1998 | Hist | Princeton U
MPhil | 1992 | Centre for Middle Eastern Studies | University of Durham
BA | 1990 | Anthropology | Yale
Abstracts
Globalizing the Bible: The British and the Suez Canal Oriental Studies, Semitics, and Arabic at the University of Pennsylvania: Local and Global Politics in Shaping the Field Helen Corey’s The Art of Syrian Cookery: Cookbook Diplomacy, Religious Pluralism, and Arab-American Belonging Middle Eastern-American Community Cookbooks: Culinary Nostalgia and Transnational Belonging