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Elizabeth Williams
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Email: erw28@georgetown.edu
Department of History--Dugan Hall 106
883 Broadway St. University of Massachusetts Lowell
Lowell MA 01854
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Gender/Women's Studies
Nationalism
Ottoman Studies
Environment
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Lebanon
Ottoman Empire
Palestine
Syria
Specialties
French And British Colonialism In The ME/Postcolon
Agriculture/Environ Hist Of Ottoman Empire/Levant
Economic History/Development
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
French (advanced)
Turkish (advanced)
Ottoman (advanced)
Persian (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2015 | History | Georgetown University
MA | 2007 | Near Eastern Studies | New York University
BA | 2000 | Religious Studies & English | College of William & Mary
Abstracts
The Discourse and Technologies of Agrarian Reform in Mandate Syria The Politics of Agricultural Education in the Late Ottoman Empire Contesting Cotton: The Production of Agricultural Space in French Mandate Syria Cultivating Land, Negotiating Change: The History of an Ottoman Agricultural School Ottoman Constitutional Reform and Agricultural Change: The Travails of a post-1908 Vali From World Exposition to Tractor Competition: Ottoman technocrats’ participation in the emergence of scientific agriculture The Agricultural Bank: From Ottoman Institution to French Mandate Crisis in Syria The Technology of Fields: The Politics of Agricultural “Science” in Late Ottoman and French Mandate Syria Capital, Sovereignty, and Debt: Securing Rural Credit in the late Ottoman Empire, 1880-1918 Blooming Deserts and Disrupted Provincial Capital Accumulation? The Sultan’s Farms in Ottoman Aleppo Aleppo post-1908: The Nature and Politics of Reform in the Late Ottoman Empire ​​The Politics of Agricultural Education: Exerting Rural Influence under the French Mandate The Limits of Extraction: Ecology and Colonial Administration in Mandate Syria, 1920-1940 The Developmentalist State on the Desert’s Edge: A Vision for Ottoman Economic Sovereignty from the Margins of Cultivation