Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Primary Phone: +1-202-867-7081
174 Nassau St, Unit 112
Princeton
NJ
08542
United States
ABOUT
Michael Battalia is a fourth-year PhD Candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He previously received an MA in History and a Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) from Georgetown University, and a BSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is preparing a dissertation entitled, “Modern Arab Intellectuals and the Making of Saudi Arabia, 1850–1950." In May 2023, he completed his general exams in the fields of Modern Islam and the Arabian Peninsula (Bernard Haykel), Modern Middle East History (Max Weiss), and Late Modern Ottoman Empire (M. Şükrü Hanioğlu). He is currently conducting two years of fieldwork in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, supported by a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) grant from the US Department of Education, and a Hyde Fellowship in the Humanities from the Princeton Graduate School. While in Saudi Arabia, he is affiliated as a Visiting Researcher in the History Department at King Saud University in Riyadh.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Gulf Studies
Ottoman Studies
Arabic
Transnationalism
Islamic Thought
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arabian Peninsula
Syria
Lebanon
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Modern Arab Intellectual History
State-building In Saudi Arabia, 1900-1940
Late Modern Ottoman Intellectual History
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Turkish (advanced)
French (fluent)
Spanish (fluent)
Italian (fluent)
English (native)
Education
MA
| 2023
| Near Eastern Studies
| Princeton U
MA
| 2019
| History
| Georgetown U
MS
| 2019
| Foreign Service
| Georgetown U
BSc
| 2009
| International Relations
| London School of Economics
Abstracts
The Arabian Peninsula through the eyes of the Nahḍa
Fake News in 1870s Beirut
Muḥammad Naṣīf (1885-1971) and the Revival of Philology as an Intellectual Craft in Early Twentieth Century Hijaz
Khayr al-Dīn al-Ziriklī’s Modernist Literary Project from Damascus to Mecca
