Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
2801 S. University
601 Stabler Hall
Little Rock
AR
20057-1035
United States
ABOUT
Katrina Yeaw is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She received a Ph.D. in modern Middle Eastern and North African history from Georgetown University in 2018. Her research interests include gender, race, colonialism, violence, memory, law, resistance and collaboration, and colonial and post-colonial literature.
Her current manuscript project, “Women, Resistance and the Creation of New Gendered Frontiers in the Making of Modern Libya, 1890-1980,” examines the gendered transformation in the territory that became Libya from the late Ottoman period until post-independence, examining the multiple ways in which Libyan women interacted with the modernizing Ottoman, Italian, British, and later Libyan states.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Gender/Women's Studies
Mediterranean Studies
Colonialism
19th-21st Centuries
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Libya
Specialties
Women And Gender
Modern Mediterranean History
Modern Libyan History
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Italian (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2018
| History
| Georgetown University
MA
| 2009
| History
| San Francisoc State University
BA
| 2007
| Comp Lit
| San Francisco State U
Abstracts
The Limits of Civilization: Gender, Culture and Education in Colonial Libya
Migrants and Slaves: Human Trafficking in the Libyan Territories from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Colonialism Remembered: Libyan History in Women’s Imagination
Love for Hire: Prostitution and Policing in Modern Libya
Educated in the Mashriq: The Influence of International Education on Women’ Rights in Libya
