Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
411 S.W. 24th Street
Arts and Sciences
San Antonio
TX
78207
United States
ABOUT
Christopher S. Rose is Assistant Professor of History at Our Lady of the Lake in San Antonio, Texas. He is a social historian of medicine, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth century Middle East.
He has extensive experience traveling in the Middle East, including Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Uzbekistan and the West Bank, and has done archival work in the UK, the US, and Switzerland. He speaks Egyptian Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic and Spanish, and reads French and Portuguese.
He was a founding co-host of the 15 Minute History podcast (2012-2020), and is currently a co-host of New Books in Middle East Studies.
He is Past President (2018-20) of the Middle East Outreach Council, a nationwide organization of educators and outreach professionals dedicated to teaching about the Middle East and its diverse cultures in an accessible, non-partisan manner.
During his lengthy tenure as Outreach Director at UT’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies (2000-2016), he conducted numerous professional development sessions for educators, co-wrote several curriculum units for K-12 classrooms, and took numerous groups of educators to the Middle East.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Colonialism
History Of Medicine
Middle East/Near East Studies
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Egypt
Indian Ocean Region
Mediterranean Countries
Specialties
Disease / Epidemics / Public Health
Social History
World War I
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Spanish (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Swedish (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2019
| History
| U of Texas at Austin
Abstracts
Sex Work and Protest in World War 1 Egypt
Abolition and the ‘White Slave Trade’ in Interwar Egypt
Disease, Famine, and Death in Egypt 1914-1919: ‘Peasants in Revolt’ Revisited
Trial by Virus: Imperial Anti-Contagionism and the 1883 Cholera in Egypt
