Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
History Department
Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard
35 Quincy Street
Cambridge
MA
02138
United States
ABOUT
Joan Chaker is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at Harvard University. She received a B.A. in Economics and an M.A. in History from the American University of Beirut, as well as an M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics. Her previous research focused on the Ottoman tobacco market. She is currently working on a study of the social transformation of the countryside as it joins the global market over the long nineteenth century, told as a collective biography of the mule drivers of Ottoman Lebanon.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Labor History
Historiography
Ottoman Studies
Political Economy
Theory
Colonialism
Banking & Finance
Environment
Middle East/Near East Studies
Pedagogy
Geographic Areas of Interest
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Rural History
Global History
History Of Capitalism
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
French (fluent)
Turkish (elementary)
Dutch (elementary)
Ottoman (elementary)
Education
MA
| 2012
| History
| American University of Beirut
MS
| 2005
| Economics
| London School of Economics
BA
| 2003
| Economics
| American University of Beirut
Abstracts
Muleteers as Bandits and Mutineers: Global Capital and Social Transformation in Ottoman Lebanon
