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Andrew Jan
University of California, Los Angeles
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
UCLA
History 6265 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles CA 90095
United States
ABOUT
Andrew Jan was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil but grew up in sunny Southern California. He is a recipient of the Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship at UCLA and a former recipient of the Department of State-funded Benjamin Gilman Scholarship at the American University in Cairo. He participated in the McNair Program at UC San Diego and received the McNair Fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin. He has studied Arabic in Cairo, Egypt and Salalah, Oman and Turkish at Istanbul, Cunda, and Ankara, Turkey. Andrew is a proud first-generation college student and comes to academia from a family of low socio-economic means.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Nationalism
Historiography
Ottoman Studies
Political Economy
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Lebanon
Ottoman Empire
Syria
Turkey
Specialties
Ottoman Modernity
Culture Of Nationalism
Egyptian Muslim Brothers
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Turkish (advanced)
Ottoman (intermediate)
French (advanced)
English (native)
Education
MA | 2012 | History | UCLA
MA | 2009 | Middle Eastern Studies | University of Texas at Austin
BA | 2007 | History | University of California, San Diego
Abstracts
The Education of Fakhri al-Barudi: Modernization, Hybridity and Discipline (1902-1908) "Waves in the Sea of Change": Liberalism, Civic Culture, and the Egyptian Blogosphere (2004-2009) Sufis, Bakris, and Pashas: The Bureaucratization of Religion in Nineteenth-Century Cairo