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Isacar BolaƱos
California State University, Long Beach
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Ottoman Studies
Environment
World History
History Of Medicine
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iraq
Iran
Gulf
Ottoman Empire
Indian Ocean Region
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Turkish (advanced)
Persian (intermediate)
Spanish (native)
Education
PhD | 2019 | History | Ohio State University
MA | 2010 | Near Eastern Studies | University of Arizona
BA | 2008 | History | UCSD
Abstracts
Beyond the Hindiyya Barrage: Ottoman Hydraulic Works on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers during the Nineteenth Century The Hazine-i Hassa Nezareti (Privy Purse Ministry) and the Expansion of Irrigation in Hamidian Iraq, 1877-1901 Environment and Disease in a Time of Quarantine: Ottoman Basra during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries The French Connection: Informal Empire, Environmental Imaginaries, and Foreign Technocrats in Hamidian Iraq Ottoman Environmental Imaginaries of Iraq during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries The Limits of Quarantine in Late Ottoman Iraq Pandemic Influenza in Ottoman Iraq