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Elise Burton
University of Toronto
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Nationalism
History Of Science
Historiography
Israel Studies
Iranian Studies
Turkish Studies
Identity/Representation
History Of Medicine
Minorities
Ethnic Groups
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Turkey
The Levant
Specialties
History Of Human Genetics
Ethnic Nationalism And Minorities
Race And Racialization
Languages
English (native)
Spanish (advanced)
Hebrew (intermediate)
Persian (intermediate)
Arabic (intermediate)
Turkish (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2017 | History and Middle Eastern Studies | Harvard University
BA | 2010 | Middle Eastern Studies and Integrative Biology | UC Berkeley
Abstracts
Nationalist Biology: The Persistence of “Aryan” Identity in Iranian Genetic Research Blood Lines: Defining National Populations in Middle Eastern Genetics Research The Missing Enzyme: Medical Genetics and Historical Identity in Iran and Israel An African Gene? Discovering Sickle Cell Disease in the Middle East Blood banks, the Cyprus conflict, and Greek-Turkish genetic kinship in the 1950s-60s