Associate Professor (1996)

Middle East

Office Hours: Mon 3:30-4:30, Thurs. 1-2pm, and by appointment

Office: 208 Levering Hall

Phone: (434) 924-6423

Fax: (434) 924-7891

Email: eft3kvirginia.edu

Education

Publications, Awards, and Activities

Books

Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon, New York, Columbia University Press, 2000

Articles

“Soldiers, Patriarchs, and Bureaucrats: Paternal Republicanism in French Syria and Lebanon,” in Representing Masculinity: Male Citizenship in Modern Western Culture, Stephan Dudink, et. al. eds. (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007) 213-33.

“The Gendered Edge of Islam,” in Neguin Yavari, et. al. eds., Views from the Edge: Essays in Honor of Richard W. Bulliet (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004) 304-21.

"Public and Private in Middle Eastern Women's History," Journal of Women's History 15:1 (Spring 2003) 52-69.

"Neither Conspiracy nor Hypocrisy: The Jesuits and the French Mandate in Syria and Lebanon ," in E. Tejirian and R. Simons, eds., Altruism and Imperialism: Western Cultural and Religious Missions in the Middle East ( New York : The Middle East Institute, Columbia University , 2002) 66-87.

"Sex and Cinema in Damascus: The Gendered Politics of Public Space in a Colonial City," in H.C. Korsholm Nielsen and J. Skovgaard-Petersen, eds., Middle Eastern Cities 1900-1950: Public Places and Public Spheres in Transformation. Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus I. Copenhagen: Aarbus University Press, 2001, pp. 89-111.

"The Climax and Crisis of the Colonial Welfare State in Syria and Lebanon during the Second World War" in Steven Heydemann, ed., War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

"Gender, War and the Birth of States: Syria and Lebanon in World War II," in Nicole Ann Dombrowski, ed. Women and War in the 20th Century. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998.

"Tanzimat", The Enclyclopedia of the Modern Middle East. New York: Macmillan Publishers, 1996

"Ottoman Political Reform in the Provinces: The Damascus Advisory Council in 1844-45." International Journal of Middle East Studies 25 (August 1993) pp 457-75.

Awards

United States Institute of Peace, Senior Fellowship, Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace, 2007-08, for forthcoming book, Struggles for Justice in the Middle East

Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2005 Scholar Award for forthcoming book, Struggles for Justice in the Middle East

Library of Congress, Kluge Center, Mellon Fellowship in International Studies, 2002-2003 for forthcoming book, Cinema and the Politics of Late Colonialism

Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, First Book Prize for Colonial Citizens, 2000

American Historical Association, Joan Kelly Memorial Book Prize for Colonial Citizens, 2000

American Council of Learned Societies, SSRC/NEH International Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1999-2000

Republic of France, Chateaubriand fellowship, 1995

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Dissertation Award, 1994

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Honorary Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow, 1994

Social Science Research Council, Dissertation Fellowship, 1992-93, Ibn Khaldun Essay Prize, 1991

Current Research

I am involved in three projects that approach issues of citizenship in the late colonial Middle East from different angles. One project conducts a comparison of social movements that arose after World War I in the Levant, Egypt and North Africa through lenses of social mobilization theory and of political culture. A second project examines cinema as a political arena in the late colonial Middle East and North Africa. And a third project is a comparative study of statebuilding and the construction of citizenship in the late French empire.