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Arbella Bet-Shlimon
University of Washington, Seattle
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
Colonialism
Identity/Representation
Minorities
Modern
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Iraq
Gulf
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