Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
POB 208265
Yale University
Dept. of Sociology
New Haven
CT
06520-8265
United States
ABOUT
Jonathan Wyrtzen is a comparative-historical sociologist with teaching and research interests in North African society and politics. He works on the areas of state formation and non-state forms of political organization; colonialism and empire; ethnicity and nationalism; urban and rural contentious politics; and Islamic social movements. He has recently completed a book manuscript titled, Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity, that examines the relationships among European imperial expansion, colonial policies of modernization and state formation, and the rise of Arabo-Islamic nationalism in North Africa in the mid-20th century. This study also explores the central roles of three marginal groups – Imazighen (Berbers), Jews, and women - in defining Moroccan identity during the mobilization of anti-colonial nationalism. He is beginning a comparative project examing the transformation of political space in the North Africa and the Middle East in the 1920s, looking at movements defending local autonomy in Morocco, Libya, Syria, Anatolia, and the Arabian Peninsula.
Discipline
Sociology
Sub Areas
Colonialism
Israel Studies
Maghreb Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Maghreb
Mashreq
Mediterranean Countries
Morocco
Specialties
Islamic Social Mvmts
Subaltern Stds
State Building, Empire, Resistance/Insurgency
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
Hebrew (advanced)
Spanish (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2009
| History
| Georgetown University
MA
| 1999
| ME Stds
| U of Texas at Austin
Abstracts
A Tour of Protectorate Morocco in One Hour: The Palais du Maroc at the 1931 International Colonial Exhibition
The Forms and Stakes of Moroccan Secularity
Global Deployment and Local Effects: Morocco’s Colonial Soldiers in the 1940s
War Makes Boundaries: Interwar Revolts and the Territorialization of the Middle East and North Africa
