Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
University of Washington
Department of History
Box 353560
Seattle
WA
98195-3560
United States
ABOUT
Arbella Bet-Shlimon is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Washington, Seattle. She completed her PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University in 2012. In her research and teaching, she specializes in the political, social, and economic history of twentieth-century Iraq and the broader Gulf region. She is the author of City of Black Gold (Stanford, 2019).
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Modern
Urban Studies
Identity/Representation
Colonialism
Minorities
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Gulf
Iraq
Specialties
Modern Iraq
Modern Gulf Region
Histories And Political Economy Of Oil
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Turkish (elementary)
French (intermediate)
Assyrian (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2012
| History & Middle Eastern Studies
| Harvard University
MA
| 2006
| Modern Middle Eastern & North African Studies
| U of Michigan
BA
| 2003
| English
| U of Washington
Abstracts
Development and Politics in an Iraqi Oil City: Kirkuk, 1946-58
The Construction of a Civic Identity in Kirkuk in the Twentieth Century and the Present
The Political Anxieties of Iraqi Oil Since the 1920s
Controlling the City: Ethnic Cleansing in Authoritarian Iraq, 1968-1991
Producing a Crisis, c. 1961: Extraction, the Environment, and Iraqi and Kuwaiti Sovereignties
