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HST 334: History of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
HST 333: History of the Modern Middle East
HST 354: History of Women and Gender in the Middle East
HST 356: Comparative History of Third World Women
HST 493: Seminar in Middle East history (various topics)
HST 499: Special Topics in History: Americans and the Middle East
HST 103: The West and the World
ASI 111-112: Integrated Studies
Georgetown University. Ph.D., with distinction, 1996. Dissertation: "The Nation and Its 'New' Women: Feminism, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Palestinian Women's Movement, 1920-1948"
Wesleyan University. B.A., 1977.
University of Dayton: Associate Professor, 2005-present. Assistant Professor of History, Middle East History, 1998- 2004.
Georgetown University: Professorial Lecturer. Middle East Civilization II (from the Ottoman Empire until the present), 1998; Empire and Independence in the Modern World, 1997; Conflict and Resistance in the Modern Middle East and North Africa, 1996; The 'New Woman' in Middle East History, 1996; Arab Nationalism and Feminism, 1995.
George Mason University: Adjunct Professor, The Middle East in the Twentieth Century, 1997.
Book:PUBLICATIONS (partial)
The Nation and Its 'New' Women: the Palestinian Women's Movement, 1920-1948. Berkeley: University of California Press, April 2003.Articles:
"Lost in Translation: Home Economics and the Sidon Girls' School of Lebanon, c. 1924-1932." Social Sciences and Mission, vol. 23 (2010), 32-62.Other:"The Other 'Awakening': the Emergence of Women's Movements in the Middle East, c. 1900-1940," in Globalizing Feminisms, 1789-1945, edited by Karen Offen. London and New York: Routledge, 2010.
"‘I Only Wish I Had a Home on This Globe’: Transnational Biography and Dr. Mary Eddy,” Journal of Women’s History, vol. 21, no 3 (Autumn 2009), 108-130.
“‘Under an American Roof:’ the beginnings of the American Junior College for Women.” Arab Studies Journal, vol. 17, no. 1 (2009), 62-84.
"Evangelization or Education: American Protestant Missionaries, the American Board, and the Girls and Women of Syria (1830-1910),” in New Faith in Ancient Lands: Western Missions in the Middle East in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, edited by Heleen Van der Murre. Leiden: Brill, 2006.
"The Impact of American Protestant Missions in Lebanon on the Construction of Female Identity, c. 1860-1950," Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 13, no. 4 (2002), 411-426.
"'Unnatural Vices' or Unnatural Rule? The Case of a Sex Questionnaire and the British Mandate," Jerusalem Quarterly File 11/12 (2001), 14-23.
"The Emergence of the Palestinian Women's Movement, 1929-1939," Journal of Palestine Studies XXIX, no. 3 (2000), 16-32.
"Nation, Tradition and Rights: the indigenous feminism of the Palestinian women's movement, 1929-1948," in Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizens, Nation and Race, edited by Ian Fletcher, Philippa Levine, and Laura Mayhall. New York: Routledge (2000).
"Selective Memory, Gender and Nationalism: Palestinian Women Leaders in the British Mandate Period," History Workshop Journal 47 (spring 1999), 141-158.
"The Other 'Awakening': the Emergence of Women's Movements in the Middle East, c. 1900-1940," in A Social History of Women and the Family in the Middle East, edited by Margaret Lee Meriwether and Judith Tucker. Boulder: Westview Press (1999).
“‘Our Moslem Sisters': Women of Greater Syria in the Eyes of American Protestant Missionary Women,” Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 9, no. 3 (1998), 307-323.
“Young Women in the City: Mandate Memories,” Jerusalem Quarterly File 2 (Fall 1998), 31-39.
"Crossing the Boundaries of History: Exploring Oral History in Researching Palestinian Women in the Mandate Period," Women's History Review 5, no. 3 (October 1996): 351-371.
"Window to a World: Arab Women of Jerusalem in Oral History During the British Mandate," in Arab Jerusalem, edited by Hisham Sharabi and Judith Tucker. Washington: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, 1998. Electronic book.Encyclopedia Articles:"Jerusalem Women's Organizations During the British Mandate, 1920s -1930s," Jerusalem: the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA), March, 1995.
Annotated Bibliography on Palestinian Women, ed. Jerusalem: Arab Thought Forum, 1993.
"Education in the West Bank During the Palestinian Intifada," Radical Teacher, 1990.
Featured in Women in World History: Analyzing Evidence: Oral History: http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/analyzing/oral/oral.intro.php
Contributor to Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, 2nd edition. Edited by Philip Mattar. Charles Butterworth, Neil Caplan, Michael Fischback, Eric Hoogland, Laurie King-Irani and John Ruedy. New York: Macmillan, 2004. (Nine articles on the Palestinian women’s movement and individual Palestinian women.)Book Reviews:"Education: Missionary. Arab States (excepting Sudan and North Africa).” Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Vol. IV: Economics, Education, Mobility and Space. Edited by Suad Joseph et al. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
"Palestine After 1850." Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Ussama Makdisi. Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East Middle. American Historical Review 114, no. 2 (April 2009), 422-423.
Assaf Likhovski. Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, International Journal of Middle East Studies 40, no.4 (August 2008), 686-689.
Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh. Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel. H-LEVANT, January 2003.
Mary Ann Fay, ed. Auto/Biography and the Construction of Identity and Community in the Middle East. Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, vol 37, no. 2 (winter 2003), 249-251.
Gertrude Bell. The Desert and the Sown. H-Gender Mideast. October, 2002.
Margaret L. Meriwether. The Kin Who Count: Family and Society in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840. International Journal of Middle East Studies 33 ( fall 2001), 625-627.
Deborah Bernstein. Constructing Boundaries: Jewish and Arab Workers in Mandatory Palestine. Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. XXX, no. 4 (summer 2001), 95-96.
Afaf Fay Kanafani. Nadia, Captive of Hope: Memoir of an Arab Woman. In Middle East Journal 54, no.2 (Spring 2000), 325-326.
Deniz Kandiyoti, editor. Gendering the Middle East: Emerging Perspectives. Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, vol. 34, no.1 (summer 2000), 78-80.
Ted Swedenburg. Memories of Revolt: the 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past, in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 31, no. 1 (July 1997), 58-59.
Michael Gorkin and Rafiqa Othman. Three Mothers, Three Daughters: Palestinian Women’s Stories. Middle East Journal, 51, no. 2 (Spring 1997), 291-292.
Kitty Warnock. Land Before Honour: Palestinian Women in the Occupied Territories, Journal of Palestine Studies 23 no. 4 (Summer 1994), 83-85.
(Review essay). Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal. Palestinians: the Making of a People; Ziad Abu-Amr, Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza; Ebba Augustin, Palestinian Women: Identity and Experience, and Marianne Heiberg et al., Palestinian Society in Gaza, West Bank and Arab Jerusalem: A Survey of Living Conditions, in Middle East Report 194/195, nos. 3-4 (May-Aug 1995), 61-63.
Noah Haiduc-Dale, New York University, 2009. "Nationalism and Religious Identification: Palestinian Christians, 1918-1948."
Nadya J. Sbaiti, Georgetown University, 2008. "Lessons in History: Education and the Formation of National Society in Beirut, Lebanon, 1920-1960s."
Andrea Stanton, Columbia University, 2007. "A Little Radio is a Dangerous Thing: State Broadcasting in Mandate Palestine."
Awad Halabi, University of Toronto, 2006. “The Transformation of the Nabi Musa Festival in Palestine from Local to National Identity: The Ottoman to the British Mandate Periods.”
Charlotte Weber, Ohio State University, 2003. “Making Common Cause? Western and Middle Eastern Feminists in the International Women’s Movement, 1911-1948."
Inger Marie Okkenhaug, University of Bergen (Norway), 1999. “‘The Quality of Heroic Living, of High Endeavour and Adventure:’ Anglican Mission, Women and Education in Palestine 1888-1948."
Research Fellowship, Center for Modern Oriental Research, Berlin, 2009
Norwegian Research Council, Bergen, 2006
Fulbright Scholar Program (Lebanon), 2006
Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad (Lebanon), 2005
Presbyterian Historical Society Fellowship, 2005-2006
Research Council Seed Grants, University of Dayton, 2002 (Lebanon), 2003 (Lebanon), 2004 (Massachusetts)
NEH Fellowship, American Center for Oriental Research (ACOR), Amman, Jordan, 1999
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant (Palestine/Israel, UK), 1992-1993
Mellon Foundation Dissertation Scholarship, 1994-1995
Royden B. Davis Teaching Fellowship, Georgetown University, 1995-1996
Piepho Language Grant (competitive), Georgetown University, 1991
Arabic Institute Grant, Middlebury College, 1989-1990
Teaching Fellowship, Georgetown University, 1989-1992
Scholarship,Georgetown University, 1988-1996
CONFERENCE PAPERS DELIVERED
"Lost in Translation: Home Economics at Sidon Girls' School." Presented at "Connections and Ruptures: America and the Middle East" Conference sponsored by The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdel Aziz Alsaud Center for American Studies & Research (CASAR), American University of Beirut, Jan. 8, 2010."Window to a World’: Single Women in Middle East History.” Presented at “Single Women in Europe and the Middle East, 1800-2000,” at University of Bergen, Mar. 19-20, 2009.
“‘I only wish I had a home on this globe:’” The Life of Mary Eddy, Itinerating Missionary Doctor in Lebanon, ca. 1893-1914. Paper for seminar on Women’s Biographies: Old Stories, New Trends, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 15, 2008.
“‘Under an American Roof:’ the Beginnings of the American Junior College for Women in Beirut.” Paper prepared for the conference on “Christian Missions and National Identities:Comparative Studies of Cultural ‘Conversions’ in the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, and EastAsia,” University of Pennsylvania, April 10-11, 2008.
“'I only wish I had a home on this globe': the transational life of Dr. Mary Eddy.” Presented at “Understanding the Middle East: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives,” workshop in Istanbul, May 22-25, 2007, sponsored by the Norwegian Research Council.
"'Under an American Roof': The Founding of the American Junior College for Women in Beirut.” Presented at international conference entitled “Missionaries in the Middle East: Re-Thinking Colonial Encounters,” at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, May 4-5, 2007.
“‘Lonely for Syria:’ the Life and Time of Dr. Mary Eddy,” Presented at a workshop entitled “Protestant Mission, Practice and Representation in the Formation of ‘Self’ and ‘Other,’ ca. 1850-2000,” Norwegian Research Council, University of Bergen, Norway, May 11-13, 2006.
“Doing or undoing gender? Women and American Protestant Missions in Syria and Lebanon,” at Conference entitled Social dimension of mission in the Middle East (19th and 20 century),” Faculty of Protestant Theology at Marburg University and the Fliedner-Foundation Kaiserswerth Düsseldorf, Germany, Mar. 13-15, 2006.
"Evangelization or Education: Protestant Missionaries, the American Board, and the Girls and Women of Syria, 1830-1910,” at Symposium, New Faith in Ancient Lands: Dynamics of Western Missions in the Middle East (1800-1914,” Leiden, Netherlands, Jan. 27-29, 2005.
“Creating ‘Responsible’ Female Citizens: American Missionary College Education in Mandate Lebanon,” at Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, Nov. 22, 2004."Creating Female Citizens of the Nation: American Protestant Missionaries and Women of Greater Syria, c. 1850-1950," at workshop on American Missionaries in the Middle East: Women, Children and Social Services, Graduate Center, City University of New York, Oct. 1, 2004.
“Sowing but Not Reaping? Tensions Between Medium and Message in Female Education in Lebanese Mission Schools, 1850-1940,” at conference on Religion, Gender and Social Change in the Middle East, 1800-2000, University of Bergen, Norway, Nov.27-29, 2003.
"Benign Neglect or Agent of Change? Palestinian Arab Women and British Mandate Policies," World Congress of Middle East Studies, Mainz, Germany, Sep. 11, 2002.
"Arab Feminism and the Centrality of Palestine, 1920s-1940s," Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Storrs, Connecticut, June 7, 2002.
"The Palestinian Women's Movement and the Press, 1920-1948: Forging Regional, National and International Identities,"American Historical Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, Jan. 5, 2002.
"Weapon of the Word: Palestinian Women and Manipulation of Media in Mobilizing Against the British Mandate," Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, Nov. 19, 2001.
"‘Unnatural Vices' or Unnatural Rule? Sex Surveys During the British Mandate Period in Palestine," at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida, Nov. 17, 2000.
"Working for the Man(date): Palestinian Women in the British Civil Service, c. 1920-1948," at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., Nov. 20, 1999.
"Selective Memory, Gender and Nationalism: Remembering and Forgetting Palestinian Women Leaders of the Mandate Period", Middle East Studies Association, Providence, Rhode Island, Nov. 22, 1996.
"'Our Moslem Sisters': Women of Greater Syria in the Eyes of American Protestant Missionaries", Middle East Studies Association, Washington, DC, Dec. 8, 1995, and the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, June 7, 1996.
"Window to a World: Arab Women of Jerusalem in Oral History During the British Mandate", Annual Symposium, "Arab Jerusalem", Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Apr. 18, 1996.
"Jerusalem Women During the British Mandate Period", at a colloquium of the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA), Jerusalem, May 10, 1994.
"Crossing the Boundaries of History: Exploring Oral History in Research on Palestinian Women in the Mandate Period", Middle East Studies Association, Raleigh, NC, Nov. 1993."The Emergence of the Palestinian Women's Movement During the British Mandate: Its Politics, Agenda and Contributions", Middle East Studies Association,Washington, DC, Nov. 1991.
INVITED TALKS:
"At Home in the World: Globalizing Domesticity at the Sidon Girls' School," Symposium on Gender and Globalism, Center for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin, Oct. 29, 2009.
“The Construction of Arab Middle Class Womanhood,” presented to the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Bergen, May 5, 2006.
“‘Under an American Roof:’ The Encounter Among Women of Greater Syria and American Protestant Women, 1830-1950,” presented to the Department of History, University of Bergen, May 4, 2006. Also presented to the Center for Arabic and Middle East Studies at the American University of Beirut, Oct. 12, 2005.
“Doing or undoing gender? Women and American Protestant Missions in Syria and Lebanon,” presented to the Center for Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, American University of Beirut, Mar. 1, 2006.
“Creating Female Citizens of the Nation: American Protestant Missionaries and Women of Greater Syria, c. 1850-1950," presented to the Department of History, Ohio State University, May 12, 2005.
“The Palestinian Women’s Movement: Negotiating National and International Identities, 1929- 1940,” presented at the University of Virginia, Feb. 21, 2002.
“The Palestinian Women's Movement: Forging a National and International Identity,” presented the Middle East Speaker Series, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Jan. 25, 1999, and to the History Department at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Nov. 19, 1998.
History book review editor, International Journal for Middle East Studies (IJMES), 2010-present.
Middle East Studies Association, Board of Directors, 2005-2007.
Arab Studies Journal, Member, Editorial Review Board.
Association for Middle Eastern Women's Studies, Member.
Palestinian American Research Center, Board of Directors, 2003-2007.
American Historical Association, Committee for Women Historians, 2006-2009.
History and social studies teacher, and department co-chair (grades 7-12), Friends Girls School, Ramallah, Palestine/West Bank, 1986-1988.
Unit Manager, FRONTLINE documentary series, and National Grants budget manager, both at WGBH Television, Boston, Massachusetts, 1982-1986.
Co-director, North Country Institute (community organizer training), Concord, N.H., and Portland, Maine, 1979-1982.
Community organizer, (Carolina Action), Raleigh, North Carolina, 1977-1979.