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ABOUT
Chris Rominger is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Florida. He specializes in colonial encounters in the modern Mediterranean, with a focus on North Africa and the French Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A native of Brooklyn, NY, Rominger received his PhD in History (2018) from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and his BA in History from Middlebury College (2008). He offers courses on the modern Middle East and North Africa, the French and Ottoman empires, and war, migration, and identity.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Maghreb Studies
Mediterranean Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
Pedagogy
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Egypt
Europe
Fertile Crescent
Ottoman Empire
Tunisia
Specialties
World War One In The Middle East And North Africa
Interwar Nationalism In Tunisia, Egypt
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
Italian (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2018
| History
| CUNY Graduate Center
BA
| 2008
| History
| Middlebury College
Abstracts
“Radical” Communists, “Moderate” Socialists, and the Trans-Mediterranean Left in post-WWI Tunisia
Constructing and Debating the “Jewish Question” in Tunisia, 1914-1925
The Prince of Chikly on the Western Front: A North African Artist’s Ambiguous Vision of the First World War
New Enemies, Temporary Friends: Local Perspectives on a Political Awakening along the Tunisia-Tripolitania Frontier during the Italo-Ottoman War, 1911-12
Transnational Origins of the Anti-Colonial Maghrib: Scenes of Empire and Rebellion from Southern Tunisia, 1915-16
