scholarship
I am an historian and professor of Middle Eastern history.
After receiving my Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2000, I was a UC Faculty Fellow in the history department there, then an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida for five years. Since the fall of 2006 I have been Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of North Texas, a large public institution located in Denton, Texas (an artistically-inclined college town in the cosmopolitan Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area.)
My speciality lay in cross-cultural and imperial encounters between Middle Easterners and Europeans in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as Middle Eastern gender issues, Palestinian history, Jerusalem, missionaries in the Middle East, the humanitarian cost of the Israeli-Arab conflict, and British imperialism.
My book, Colonial Encounters Among English and Palestinian Women, 1800-1948, was published by the University Press of Florida in November 2007.
In addition to publishing my research, I believe that teaching is another crucial way to enhance my scholarship, and I have been recognized by my peers and supervisors at UCF and UCSB for my fine work in the classroom. I hope to continue this tradition of personal and professional growth in teaching now that I am at the University of North Texas.
The scholarship section of this website will greatly expand. Until then, you may consult my curriculum vitae for information about my publications, presentations, awards, and expertise.
Here is a link to a PDF version of the entire journal holding my article on the Holy Land Experience theme park in Orlando, “'Citizens of Heaven' versus 'The Islamic Peril': The Anti-Islamic Rhetoric of Orlando's Holy Land Experience Since 9/11/01," American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 21:3 (Summer 2004), pp. 89-109. Check out the excellent article by my mentor, Nancy E. Gallagher, right before my piece!
