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Sara Pursley
New York University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
New York University 50 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Development
Gender/Women's Studies
Nationalism
State Formation
Colonialism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Iraq
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
French (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2012 | History | CUNY Graduate Center
MA | 2005 | not given | CUNY, Grad Ctr
BA | 1991 | not given | Dartmouth Col
Abstracts
Reforming the Family through the Schooling of Girls: Postwar Development Ideology and the Emergence of Home Economics in Iraq Daughters of the Right Path: Female Homosociality and Self-Formation in the Works of Shi`i Revivalist Bint al-Huda Domesticating Women, Reproducing the Future: Homosociality as Wasted Time in Revolutionary Iraq Nation, Gender, Time in Jawad Salim's Monument to Freedom “Education for Real Life”: Psychology, Islam, and Adolescent Normalization in Hashimite Iraq “Rending the Veils of Time and Space”: `Ali al-Wardi, Decolonization, and the Sciences of the Self Producing Family Farmers The Sectarianization of Family Law during the British Occupation of Ottoman Iraq