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Kevin Jones
University of Georgia
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Cultural Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iraq
Iran
Arab States
Specialties
Modern Iraq
Anti-Colonialism
Political Poetry
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Persian (advanced)
French (advanced)
German (intermediate)
Urdu (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2013 | History | University of Michigan
BA | 2005 | History/Philosophy | Wake Forest
Abstracts
‘A Horizon Lit with Blood’: Poetry, Protest and the Promise of National Liberation in Iraq, 1948-1956 'Do Not Leave Those Pure Virgins': Class, Gender, and the Cultural Politics of Nationalism in Post-Revolutionary Iraq, 1958-1963 'A Cage of Disquiet': Revolution, Modernity, and Political Awakenings in Najaf, 1905-1932 Lineages of Modernity: Race, Sect, and Nation in the Modern Iraqi Shu'ubiyya Debates