Occupation
Independent Scholar
Contact
706 Ashurst Road
Havertown
PA
19083
United States
ABOUT
Born in Lafayette, Indiana, I completed my university degrees at Notre Dame (BA), and at Indiana University (MA and Ph.D.) majoring primarily in the humanities (Philosophy, Persian Language and Literature, and Middle East History) Along the way, I spent two years in Iran as a Peace Corps Volunteer with the Iran III program (1964-66), completed my thesis in 1975 and taught at Macalester College, Georgetown U., BirZeit U.,Villanova U., UPENN & Drexel Honors - I completed a work on Khalil Totah and his diaries, and on Southern Iran and the Persian Gulf. I am presently writing up my research on Iranian schools, American missionaries, Howard Baskerville, andan oral history of Palestinian schools during the Mandate. My research interests are in social and cultural history of Iran, Palestine and the Persian Gulf
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Gulf Studies
Iranian Studies
Political Economy
World History
Education
Historiography
Kurdish Studies
Globalization
Slavery
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Palestine
Kurdistan
West Bank
Specialties
Schools Of 19th-20th Century Palestine And Iran
18th-20th Cc. Social And Cultural History Of Iran
Iran, The Persian Gulf And The Indian Ocean
Languages
Arabic (elementary)
French (intermediate)
Kurdish (elementary)
Latin (intermediate)
Persian (advanced)
English (native)
Education
PhD
| 1975
| Hist
| Indiana U
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