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Matthew Hal Ellis
Sarah Lawrence College
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: (914) 395-2310
Sarah Lawrence College
1 Mead Way
Bronxville NY 10708
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Colonialism
History Of Science
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
Ottoman Studies
Urban Studies
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Ottoman Empire
Palestine
Turkey
Specialties
Borderlands In Modern Middle Eastern History
Space And Place In Middle Eastern Studies
Nation-state Formation And National Territoriality
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Spanish (advanced)
Turkish (intermediate)
Ottoman (intermediate)
French (advanced)
Italian (elementary)
Persian (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2012 | History | Princeton University
MPhil | 2005 | Modern Middle Eastern Studies | University of Oxford
Abstracts
Egypt's Wild West? Maps, the Desert, and the Taming of the Western Frontier, 1890-1925 Power, Piety, and Political Identity at the Margins: the Case of the Sanusiyya Drawing a Line in the Sand? Ottomans, Italians, Bedouins, and the Making of the Egyptian Western Border Crisis, 1902-1916 Bedouin Mobility and the Emergence of an Egypt-Benghazi Borderland Rethinking Territoriality in the Egyptian-Libyan Borderland Libyan Cross-Border Mobility and Italian Colonial Citizenship, 1911-1942