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Dylan Baun
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Occupation
Professor
Contact
Roberts Hall 416
301 Sparkman Drive
Huntsville AL 35899
United States
ABOUT
Dylan Baun is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is a historian of the Modern Middle East and Islamic World with a focus on the history of youth and young people. His current research focuses on popular youth clubs, social movements and political organizations in mid-twentieth century Lebanon.  
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Historiography
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Nationalism
State Formation
Identity/Representation
Gender/Women's Studies
Pop Culture
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Fertile Crescent
Lebanon
Specialties
Youth And Childhood--20th Century Middle East
Popular Politics--20th Century Middle East
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Turkish (intermediate)
English (native)
Education
DPhil | 2015 | School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies | University of Arizona
MA | 2010 | School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies | University of Arizona
BA | 2008 | History | Wittenberg University
Abstracts
From Social Tension to Protracted Civil Conflict: Using fsQCA to Analyze Conflict in Lebanon The Gemayzeh Incident of 1949: Conflict over Physical and Imaginary Space in Beirut Exploring "Sectarianism From Below" in Bahrain Intellectual Beginnings Meet Violent Ends: Party authority, family contestation and microhistory in the early Lebanese Civil War era Cleaning The Slate: Family Memories and Narrative (Re)constructions of Imad Nuwayhid Imad Nuwayhid: Searching for a New Home in the Arab Left