Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
ABOUT
Stacy D Fahrenthold is a historian of the modern Middle East specializing in labor migration; displacement/refugees; border studies; and diasporas within and from the region. She is affiliated with the Middle East / South Asia Studies Program, the Global Migration Center, and the Human Rights Studies Program. She also co-edits Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Migration Studies. Fahrenthold's research into Arab migration emphasizes the diaspora’s impact on modern Syrian and Lebanese politics in the twentieth century. Her book, Between the Ottomans and the Entente (OUP 2019) was awarded a 2020 Arab American Book Award (Evelyn Shakir Award for Non-fiction), the 2019 Khayrallah Prize in Migration Studies, and the 2019 Syrian Studies Association Book Award. She is now at work on a new project on Syrian textile workers in the Americas. Her larger research foci include migration, displacement, and diaspora in the Middle East; working-class and labor histories; ethnic and religious minorities.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Transnationalism
Ethnic American Studies
Arab Studies
Minorities
Geographic Areas of Interest
Lebanon
Palestine
Syria
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Syria And Lebanon
Migration And Border Studies
First World War
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Spanish (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2014
| History
| Northeastern University
MA
| 2009
| History
| Northeastern University
BA
| 2007
| History
| Georgia State U
Abstracts
Men of the Nation, Men of the Cloth: Lebanese Diasporic Nationalism and the Church, 1919-1932
Sound Minds in Sound Bodies: Nadi Homsi and Patriotic Masculinity in Syrian Brazil, 1920-1932
“Enemy Aliens” or “Alien Slackers?” Syrian Ottoman Immigrants on the American Home Front, 1914-1918
American Relief and Émigré Politics in the Syrian Mahjar
Factory and the Café: working-class feminisms and the politics of emasculation in the interwar Syrian mahjar
Prayer Rugs in the Desert: Muslim Migrants in U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
