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Beverly Tsacoyianis
University of Memphis
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Department of History
The University of Memphis
Memphis TN 38152-3450
United States
ABOUT
I am an Associate Professor in the Dept of History at the University of Memphis, and earned tenure in 2021. My first book was published in June 2021.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Colonialism
Comparative
Middle East/Near East Studies
Health
Queer/LGBT Studies
World History
History Of Medicine
Geographic Areas of Interest
Mashreq
Syria
Palestine
The Levant
Israel
Specialties
Late Ottoman Palestine, Syria, And Lebanon
20th C Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, And Israel
Medical And Disability History
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (elementary)
Hebrew (advanced)
Spanish (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2014 | History | Washington Univ St. Louis
MA | 2009 | History | Washington Univ St. Louis
BA | 2004 | Hist | Brandeis U
Abstracts
Treating Minds and Spirits: Psychiatry and Non-Biomedical Healing Practices in 1920s-1960s Syria Mental Illness and the Plural Medical Marketplace in Syria, 1922-?1956 "Violence that would consume it whole and eventually damage the collective mental health of its people": Lebanese and Syrian narratives of trauma, war, and treatment, 1900-2018 From Patient to Survivor: Enriching Palestinian and Israeli Psychiatric History through Disability Studies Approaches Committed: Madness and Duty in Palestinian and Israeli History "In This House of the Insane I Will Rescue Myself:" Gender, Disability, and Psychiatry in 1940s and 1950s Palestine and Israel