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Kyle Anderson
SUNY College at Old Westbury
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
State University of New York at Old Westbury
NAB 3043
Old Westbury NY 1168
United States
ABOUT
My research on the history of modern Egypt focuses on two main areas. One is a longstanding interest in the social history of labor and especially what labor recruitment mechanisms can tell us about the state-society relationship in the countryside. The other research direction is relatively new for me, fusing critical race theory and critical geography to focus on the isomorphism of racism and nationalism in the (post-)colonial context.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Transnationalism
World History
Middle East/Near East Studies
Folklore/Folklife
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
All Middle East
Specialties
Rural Egypt
Land Reform
Egyptian Labor Corps
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
Education
PhD | 2017 | Near Eastern Studies | Cornell
BA | 2009 | History | University of Michigan
Abstracts
Revolution and the Rural Imaginary: Comitted Realism and Nasserist Ideology in Egyptian Literature The Egyptian Labor Corps: Migrant Labor, Imperial Logistics, and the Social History of Modern Egypt The Development and Institutionalization of Agricultural Cooperatives in Egypt Whose Revolution? The Dayrut Train Massacre and British Military Labor Recruitment in World War I "I will not accept slavery!"— Military Labor, the 1919 Revolution, and Racial Nationalism in Egypt The Village Novel and Literary Modernism in Egypt The Politics of Exile and the Narrowing Horizons of Egyptian Anti-British Activism, 1905-1924