Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
UCSB
History Department
HSSB 4223
Santa Barbara
CA
93101
United States
ABOUT
Sherene Seikaly is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Seikaly is editor of Arab Studies Journal, co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya e-zine, an editor of Journal of Palestine Studies, a policy member of Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network, and an advisory member of R-Shief Online Archive Project.
Seikaly's Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2016) explores how Palestinian capitalists and British colonial officials used economy to shape territory, nationalism, the home, and the body. She has published in academic journals such as International Journal of Middle East Studies and Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies as well as in online venues including Jadaliyya, Mada Masr, and 7iber.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Colonialism
Cultural Studies
Nationalism
Trade/Investment
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Lebanon
Palestine
Specialties
Capitalism
Colonial Dev
Consumption
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
Hebrew (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2007
| Hist, ME & Isalmic Stds
| New York U
MA
| 2000
| CCAS
| Georgetown U
BA
| 1993
| Urban Studies and Planning
| University of California, San Diego
Abstracts
Free Trade and Democracy: Palestinian Businessmen Imagine the Nation
The Promise of a State, the Problem of Palestine
Solidarity After the Revolution
On Bread and Freedom: The Neoliberal Frontier of 1977
Palestine as Archive
The Pith Helmet and the Expert: A Palestinian in Sudan
