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Edward Falk
University of California, San Diego
Occupation
Lecturer
Contact
USD Department of History
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego CA 92110
United States
ABOUT
Edward Falk received his PhD in Middle East History from UC San Diego in 2018. His dissertation follows the development of Lebanese racial and political identity in the French missionary schools and by their graduates, including Chekri Ganem, Nadra Moutran, and Michel Chiha.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Colonialism
Education
Minorities
Nationalism
Ottoman Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Lebanon
Ottoman Empire
Syria
Specialties
Ottoman Syria
French Imperialism In The Ottoman Empire
Missionary Education And Identity Formation
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Italian (intermediate)
Turkish (intermediate)
Ottoman (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2018 | History | UC San Diego
MA | 2012 | History | UC San Diego
BA | 2009 | History | Carleton College
Abstracts
Jesuits, Jews, and Franco-Maronites: La Mission Civilisatrice in Ottoman Lebanon Self-Orientalism and the Mahjar: Art and Politics in the Syro-Lebanese Diaspora The Imaginary Mountain: Lebanon in the Mahjar Memory Educating Race and Nation in Ottoman Lebanon