Occupation
Visiting Assistant/Associate Professor
Contact
ABOUT
Joshua Donovan is a postdoctoral fellow at the German Historical Institute's Pacific Office at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently working on his first book, "Imagining Antioch: Sectarianism, Nationalism, and Migration in the Greek Orthodox Levant," tells a new history of identity formation in the Middle East by analyzing how one of the region’s largest yet least-studied minority communities navigated social and political turmoil in Syria, Lebanon, and the diaspora from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. More broadly, he is interested in histories of sectarianism, migration, human rights, and empire in the modern Middle East. His work has been published in Mashriq & Mahjar, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Studies of World Christianity, H-Diplo, and more.
Joshua earned his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University. He also holds a BA in History and Political Science from Georgetown University and a Master's Degree in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Nationalism
Minorities
History Of Religion
Identity/Representation
Colonialism
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Foreign Relations
Human Rights
Geographic Areas of Interest
The Levant
Arab States
North America
Iraq
Lebanon
Syria
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2022
| History
| Columbia University
MPhil
| 2018
| History
| Columbia University
MA
| 2014
| Social Sciences
| University of Chicago
BA
| 2013
| History
| Georgetown University
Abstracts
Between Liberalism and Islamism: The Muslim Brothers and the United Nations
Disciplining Diasporas, Surveilling Subjects: The French Mandate and the Syro-Lebanese Mahjar
Communal Reform at the Twilight of Empire: Orthodox Christians in the Levant and Egypt, 1880-1913
A Battle over Bishops: Proto-nationalisms, Imagined Geographies, and the status of Mount Lebanon’s Orthodox Christians
Migrant Memories: Orthodox Christian Accounts of Violence and Displacement During the 1860 "Events" in Damascus
