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Aaron G. Jakes
University of Chicago
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Email: ajakes@uchicago.edu
Secondary Phone: 203-606-2989
Department of History
1126 E. 59th Street
Chicago IL 60637
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Cultural Studies
History Of Science
South Asian Studies
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
India
Pakistan
Specialties
Agric & Environ Hist Of Mod Egypt & India
Youth Cult & Educ
Critical Geography/Socio-Spatial Theory
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
Hindi (intermediate)
Urdu (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2015 | History and MEIS | New York University
MA | 2007 | CASA | Amer U in Cairo
MPhil | 2005 | Mod ME Stds | Oxford U
BA | 2003 | Hist | Yale U
Abstracts
“A Work of General Interest”: Agricultural Roads, Public Utility, and the Rescaling of the Egyptian State under British Rule Floating Towards Crisis: Gresham Life Insurance and the Mortgage Boom in British Egypt Egypt’s Colonial Interior: Agrarian Development and the Reinvention of the Village Headman, 1890-1914 Crisis Profiteering and the Nationalist Critique of Finance in Egypt, 1907-1914 Peaceful Wars and Unlikely Unions: the Vernacular Politics of Comparison in Colonial Egypt Egypt’s Roosevelt: Crisis and Comparison in 1907 “But These Excesses Were Abnormal and Short-lived”: 1919, the Milner Mission, and the Legacies of Colonial Economism in Egypt Currency Blockade: The Suez Crisis, Imperial Money, and Economic Sovereignty