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Carl Shook
University of Chicago
Occupation
Lecturer
Contact

Chicago IL
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Identity/Representation
Historiography
Nationalism
Ethnic Groups
Transnationalism
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Modernization
State Formation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iraq
Iran
Syria
Saudi Arabia
Jordan
Fertile Crescent
Specialties
Transnationalism
Official Nationalisms
Borders
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Persian (intermediate)
French (advanced)
German (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2018 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | University of Chicago
MA | 2009 | Center for Middle East Studies | University of Chicago
BA | 2004 | History | Western Washington University
Abstracts
Ba'athist Frontier Ideology: Analyzing the Deportation of Iranian Nationals from Iraq, 1971-72 Rivers and Ruins: the British imperial episteme of Iraq’s geo-space The State-Building Function of Border Outposts Along the Iraq-Najd Frontier, 1918-1932 The origins and development of Iraq’s boundaries: Policing the movement of Arab Bedouin tribes along the Nejd and Syrian borderlands, 1920-1928 Making the ‘other’ illegal: Criminalization of Iranian nationals in northern Iraq, 1918-1988 The Law and the Bordering of Iraq: An Inquiry into the Relationship Between the Tribal Criminal & Civil Disputes Regulations and State Building in the Mandate Era