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Nathan Citino
Rice University
Occupation
Professor
Contact
History Department - MS 42
Rice University PO Box 1892
Houston TX 77251-1892
United States
ABOUT
Nathan J. Citino is the Barbara Kirkland Chiles Professor of History at Rice University. He is the author of From Arab Nationalism to OPEC: Eisenhower, King Sa'ud, and the Making of U.S.-Saudi Relations (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002, 2d ed. 2010). His second book, Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S.-Arab Relations, 1945-1967(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017), was awarded the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. His current research examines the foundations of U.S. empire in the Middle East and beyond.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Foreign Relations
Modernization
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Specialties
20th Century US-Arab Relations
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Education
PhD | 1999 | History | Ohio State University
BA | 1993 | History | University of Notre Dame
Abstracts
Dilemmas of American Exceptionalism in the Middle East “The ‘Haves’ and the ‘Have Nots’ in the Arab World”: The UN, Oil, and Regional Development Planning after Suez