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Benjamin Thomas White
University of Glasgow
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
School of Humanities (History)
University of Glasgow 2 University Gardens
Glasgow G12 8QQ
United Kingdom
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Colonialism
Minorities
Nationalism
State Formation
Ottoman Studies
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Anatolia
Mashreq
Ottoman Empire
Syria
Specialties
Refugees In The Middle East, 1850–1950
French And British Imperialism In The Middle East
Nation-states And Minorities In The Middle East
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (fluent)
German (elementary)
Spanish (advanced)
Turkish (elementary)
Education
DPhil | 2008 | Faculty of Modern History | University of Oxford
MSt | 2003 | Oriental Studies | University of Oxford
MA | 2001 | Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies | University of Edinburgh
Abstracts
Colonial Revolts in Metropolitan Politics: The Chambre des Députés and the 1925-27 Uprising in Syria Sibling Rivalry and the Institutions of Mandate Rule: A Druze Family, the French High Commission, and the Unsettled Law in Syria, 1933-37 Refugees and nationality in 1920s Syria and Lebanon