Occupation
Independent Scholar/Researcher
Contact
ABOUT
I am an interdisciplinary scholar who concentrates most heavily in history. I explore questions of identity, discourse, knowledge production, nationalism, and state-society relations in the 20th century Levant. My previous research explored questions of religious nationalism and territory in Lebanon with specific focus on the group Hizbullah. My current research explores two propaganda campaigns from Ba'thist Iraq that have been largely ignored by scholars. I am especially interested in the success and/or failure of these programs, considering they were so large and well-funded, to impact Iraqi society. I am likewise interested in questions of writing and rewriting history, given that these two programs explicitly aimed to do just that.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Colonialism
Historiography
Theory
Transnationalism
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iraq
Jordan
Lebanon
Mashreq
Syria
Specialties
Critical Theory
Comparative Colonialism
Revolutions
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
Turkish (elementary)
Spanish (fluent)
Portuguese (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2018
| Interdisciplinary Near and Middle Eastern Studies
| University of Washington
MA
| 2012
| Center for Middle Eastern Studies
| Lund University
BS
| 2006
| Business
| CSU CHICO
BS
| 2006
| Advertising Design
| CSU CHICO
Abstracts
Il Faut Defendre Saddam? Oil, State Racism, and Iraqi State Biopower in the 1980s
The Ba’th and the Non-Aligned Movement: More than a relationship of convenience
