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Will Hanley
Florida State University
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Email: whanley@fsu.edu
Secondary Phone: (850) 912-9143
Department of History
Florida State University 401 Bellamy Bldg, Box 3062200
Tallahassee FL 32306-2200
United States
ABOUT
I am Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Florida State University. I studied at the Universities of Saskatchewan, Toronto, and Oxford before taking my doctorate in history at Princeton (2007). I am completing work on a book about the emergence of nationality as a social and legal category in Alexandria between 1880 and 1914. During the 2012-13 academic year, as a Rechtskulturen fellow in Berlin, I am studying the broader institutional history of justice in Egypt between 1875 and 1950. I serve as Associate Editor (Book Reviews, Non-Americas) of the Law and History Review. I am also developing an NEH-funded digital tool (called Prosop) to help historians to collect and organize large volumes of demographic data.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
World History
Information Technology/Computing
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Europe
Mediterranean Countries
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Legal History
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
German (elementary)
Ottoman (intermediate)
Turkish (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2007 | Hist | Princeton U
MPhil | 2000 | Mod ME Stds | Oxford U
Abstracts
Legal Pluralism in Egypt: The View from the Consular Courts Relationships outside marriage, beyond law, and without remedy in turn-of-the-century Alexandria Ottoman International Law: Followers or Leaders? Egypt’s petty moneylenders as makers of international law The Police and the People in turn-of-the-century Egypt Mapping segregation in turn-of-the-century Alexandria Representing Ottoman Administrative Hierarchies using Ontologies