Contact
Roger Williams University
Dept of History
One Old Ferry Rd
Bristol
RI
02809
United States
ABOUT
Sargon Donabed is an associate professor of history at Roger Williams University. He holds a PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations from the University of Toronto and a MSci from Canisius College in Anthrozoology/Animal Studies.
Donabed is one of the foremost experts on the perennial history of Assyria-Mesopotamia and its heritage. His recent focus consists of indigenous and marginalized methodologies concerning the development of Assyrian Studies as an anti-orientalist and anti-colonialist field, as well as issues of cultural continuity. Currently, his studies in animal studies touch upon storytelling and folklore and issues of re-enchantment of reality through myth and panentheism. Sargon is also at present working on two major fantasy epics.
In addition, he is a TAARII (the American Academic Research Institute in Iraq) recipient, serves on the advisory board of the journal Chronos, published by the University of Balamand and is also the editor for the book series Alternative Histories: Narratives from the Middle East and Mediterranean with Edinburgh University Press. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-alternative-histories.html
Donabed is also published in a variety of journals from Folklore to National Identities and Perspectives on History and is the author of Reforging a Forgotten History: Iraq and the Assyrians in the 20th Century (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) and co-editor and contributor to numerous works including The Assyrian Heritage: Threads of Continuity and Influence (Uppsala University, 2012) among others. Currently, he is under contract to write a comprehensive history entitled The Assyrians: A Cultural History from Empire to Endangered Existence (Cambridge University Press). He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School and Brown University and lectures in various universities around the world.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Assyrian
Assyrian Studies
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Folklore/Folklife
Identity/Representation
Human Rights
Minorities
Christian Studies
Environment
World History
Ethnic Groups
History Of Religion
Geographic Areas of Interest
Assyria
Spain
Anatolia
Europe
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Mediterranean Countries
North America
Specialties
Indigenous Peoples
Assyrian Culture And Folk Traditions
Marginalized Communities In The Middle East
Languages
French (intermediate)
Spanish (intermediate)
Hebrew (intermediate)
Gaelic (elementary)
Arabic (intermediate)
Assyrian (fluent)
Education
MSci
| 2019
| Anthrozoology
| Canisius College
PhD
| 2010
| Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
| University of Toronto
MA
| 2003
| NMC
| U of Toronto
BA
| 2000
| History/Religious Studies
| Stonehill College
Abstracts
Evolving Identity: Religion and the Secularization of Assyrians in Massachusetts in the Early 20th Century
Misconceptions and Politics: Reconceptualizing 'Historic Realities' in Iraq 1958-1969
The Mendacity, Atrocity, and its Corollary: Revisiting Simele, Iraq
Ethnic Shifts in an Ecclesiastical Community: A Visual Dialogue of Jacobite Nomenclature in 20th and 21st Century Israel/Palestine
Persistent Perseverance: A Trajectory of Assyrian History in Panenhistorical Context
