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Samuel Dolbee
Vanderbilt University
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
Mahindra Humanities Center
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge MA 02138
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Identity/Representation
Nationalism
Environment
Pop Culture
Ottoman Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
The Levant
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Persian (elementary)
Turkish (elementary)
Education
MA | 2010 | Arab Studies | Georgetown University
BA | 2008 | History | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Abstracts
Mandatory Body-Building: Physical Activity, Masculinities, Class, and Nationalism in 1930s Syria Fighting Insects and Tarbushes, Too: Rural Development and the Ecology of Class in Late 1930s Syria The Nature of Reform in Late Ottoman Syria Rails and Rabies in the Late Ottoman Empire Ancient Infrastructures, Modern Borders: Roads, Ruins, and Locusts on the 1920s Syrian-Turkish Frontier Provincializing the Shammar Grain and Governance, People and Place in the Ottoman Jazira 1860-1920 'Is it now that we are inventing such things?' Ethnicity and Sedentarization in the Late Ottoman Jazira Locusts and Scale in the Post-Ottoman Jazira