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Alexis Wickawick@ku.edu.tr +90 (0)2123380832Department of History – College of Social Sciences and HumanitiesKo? UniversityRumeli Feneri Yolu 34450 Sar?yer, IstanbulTurkeyEducation2010: PhD (with distinction), Department of History, Columbia University, New York2006: MPhil, Department of History, Columbia University, New York2004: MA, Department of History, Columbia University, New York2003: Ma?trise (mention très bien), African History, University of Paris VII – Denis Diderot 2002: BA (Cum laude and Distinction in History), Major in History, Yale University Academic experience2018 – Associate Professor of History, Ko? University, Istanbul2017 – 2018 Associate Professor of History, American University of Beirut2010 – 2017 Assistant Professor of History, American University of BeirutCourses taught at AUB: Undergraduate level: History of the Arabs and the Middle East, II: Sixteenth to the Twentieth CenturyThe Making of the Modern World Introduction to the Study of History Introduction to the Modern History of the Arab East The Sea in History Coffee and Empire: Histories Historical Interpretation Contemporary Studies The University, the City and the World: AUB at 150 YearsEmpire to Nation: The Making of Modern TurkeyGraduate level: Orientalism and History The Ottomans in the Age of European Hegemony, 1798-1923 The Spaces of HistoryIntroduction to Ottoman Language and Culture (tutorial) Reading Talal Asad in Beirut (faculty-student reading seminar)Student advising at AUB: Primary Advisor:Patrick Healy, “Making History in the Sahara: historiography in the nationalist discourse of the Polisario Front, 1973-1976” (MA, 2011) Cyma Farah, “Religion, Science and Power in the Making of the Survey of Western Palestine” (MA, 2014)Hratch Kestenian, “A Portrait of Armenian student life at the Syrian Protestant College, 1885-1920” (MA, 2015)Jack Davies, “10007183 [2010] RRTA 930: Member Cipolla’s History of the Islamic Republic of Iran" (MA, 2018)Yasmine Shafei, “The History of Madness in modern Egypt” (PhD, in progress)Member of Committee: Zeina Zayour, “Working in an NGO in a refugee camp: commentaries on life, labor and the aid enterprise” (MA, 2010)Joan Chaker, “Eastern tobacco and the Ottoman regie: a history of financiers in the age of Empire” (MA, 2012)Hazem Jamjoum, “The Village Leagues: Israel’s native authority in the 1981-1982 intifada” (MA, 2012)Aaron Tylor Brand, “Lives darkened by calamity: enduring the famine of World War I in Lebanon and Western Syria” (PhD, 2014)Tamara Maatouk, “Understanding the public sector in Egyptian cinema” (MA, 2017)2004 – 2007 Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Columbia UniversityCourses: History of Islamic Society; Modern History of the Middle East; Main Currents in African History; The Turbulent Century: East-Central Europe in the 20th CenturyPublicationsBookThe Red Sea: In Search of Lost Space (Oakland: University of California Press, 2016); reviewed in New Perspectives on Turkey, the AAG Review of Books, Mada Masr, al-Abhath, al-Akhbar, Le Monde Diplomatique, IJMESArticles“History, Geography and the Sea,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 48/4 (November 2016): 743-745“Sailing the Modern Episteme: al-?ah?āwī on the Mediterranean,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 34/2 (Summer 2014): 405-417“Modern Historiography – Arab World,” in A Companion to Global Historical Thought, ed. by Prasenjit Duara, Viren Murthy, Andrew Sartori (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014): 308-320“Narcissus: women, water and the west,” Feminist Review, 103 (2013): 42-57“Self-Portrait of the Ottoman Red Sea, 20th of July 1777,” Journal of Ottoman Studies, 40 (2012): 399-434“From Pax Romana to Pax Americana, 1798-1995: The Idea of the Mediterranean in the French Imaginary between Orientalism and Altermondialisme,” in L’Europe Mediteranéenne, ed. by Marta Petricioli (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2008)“Manifestations of Nationhood in the Writings of Amilcar Cabral,” African Identities, “Special Issue: Amilcar Cabral,” ed. by Carlos Lopes, 4, 1, April 2006: 45-70; reprinted in Carlos Lopes (ed.), Africa’s Contemporary Challenges: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral (London: Routledge, 2010); translation in Portuguese as Desafios contempor?neos da ?frica: O legado da Amílcar Cabral (Rio de Janeiro: Unesp, 2011)Book ReviewsDislocating the Orient: British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921, by Daniel Foliard, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, forthcomingThrough the Eyes of the Beholder: The Holy Land, 1517-1713, ed. by Judy A. Hayden and Nabil I. Matar, Leiden: Brill, 2013, al-Abhath, 60/61, 2012-2013River Jordan: The Mythology of a Dividing Line, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011, by Rachel Havrelock, Journal of Palestine Studies, XLII/3, Spring 2013Science, libertinage et clandestinité à l’aube des Lumières – Le transformisme de Telliamed, by Claudine Cohen, Le Monde Diplomatique, June 2012L’Intellectuel, l’état et la nation: Brésil-Amérique Latine-Europe, ed. by Denis Rolland, Marcelo Ridenti, Elide Rugai Bastos, Paris: L’Harmattan, Lusotopie, XVI/1, June 2009Eurafricans in Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, by George Brooks, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003, Lusotopie, XIII/2, November 2006The International Journal of African Historical Studies 36, 1, 2003 (“Special Issue: Colonial Encounters between Africa and Portugal,” ed. by Jeanne Marie Penvenne), Lusotopie, XIII/2, November 2006Rethinking the Late Ottoman Empire: A Comparative Social and Political History of Albania and Yemen, 1878-1918, by Isa Blumi, Istanbul: Isis Press, 2003, Arab Studies Journal, XIV/2, November 2006 Palestine & Palestinians – Guidebook, Beit Sahour: Alternative Tourism Group, Le Monde Diplomatique, August 2006The Transmission of Learning in Islamic Africa, ed. by Scott Reese, Leiden: Brill, 2004, Politique Africaine, 102, June 2006Décoloniser l’histoire? De “l’histoire coloniale” aux histoires nationales en Amérique Latine et en Afrique (XIXe-XXe siècles), ed. by Sophie Dulucq and Colette Zytnicki, Paris?: Société Fran?aise d’Histoire d’Outre-Mer, 2003, Lusotopie, XII/1-2, 2005L’Identité palestinienne?: La construction d’une conscience nationale moderne, by Rashid Khalidi, Paris?: La Fabrique, 2003, Le Monde Diplomatique, April 2003Le grand livre des Negro Spirituals, by Bruno Chenu, Paris?: Bayard, 2000, Le Monde Diplomatique, January 2001Organization of conferences, panels and networks“Adab as a way of life: History, Literature and Religion in Islam,” Conference co-organizer, American University of Beirut, October 2018“1516: The Year that Changed the Middle East and the World,” Conference co-organizer, American University of Beirut, December 2016“Constantine Zurayk Symposium,” Member of organizing committee, October 31st, 2016“Maritime Worlds of Islam,” Roundtable co-convener, American University of Beirut, April 5th, 2016“The Idea of Islam Today: Towards Non-Orientalist Genealogies,” Conference co-organizer, American University of Beirut, September 2014“The Arab Edward Said,” Panel convener, “Transnational American Studies” conference, American University of Beirut, January 2014 “Beyond Liberalism and Islamism: Homage to Albert Hourani,” Conference co-organizer, American University of Beirut, May 2013Lectures and papers“Other Geographies: Narrating the Indian Ocean before European Hegemony,” Ko? University, February 9th, 2018“Europe: The View from the Edge,” American University of Beirut, September 29, 2017Discussant at the book launch of Toufoul Abou-Hodeib’s A Taste of Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut (Stanford, 2017), American University of Beirut, May 3, 2017“Of Other Places: The Sea before Europe,” Paper presented at the conference “Spatial Thought in Islamicate Societies, 1000-1600,” University of Tübingen, March 30-April 1, 2017“History at Sea: The Ottoman Empire, the Red Sea and the Oceanic Turn,” Keynote lecture, CMES, UC Berkeley, November 10, 2016 “The Geographical Mission: Europe, the Mediterranean, Islam and the World,” Paper presented at the workshop “Between the World and the International: Thinking with Ottoman and Islamic Pasts,” UC Berkeley, November 10-11, 2016“Beyond the Fracture,” Presentation at the book launch of Yusif Sayigh: Arab Economist, Palestinian Patriot. A Fractured Life Story, American University of Beirut, May 30th, 2016“The Art of Navigation between Science and Ethics in Ibn Mājid’s Fawā?id,” Paper presented at the roundtable “Maritime Worlds of Islam,” American University of Beirut, April 5, 2016“Postcolonialism and the Critique of Orientalism,” Lecture in the course ‘Introduction to Middle East Studies’ offered by Nadya Sbaiti, American University of Beirut, February 2016“The Place in the Middle: A Geohistory of the Red Sea,” Presentation at the Ifriqiyya Colloquim, Columbia University, New York, September 24th, 2015“Europe: The View from the Edge,” Lecture delivered at the 60th anniversary of the Messina Conference, Messina, June 6th, 2015“The Ottomans,” Lecture in the course ‘Introduction to Islamic Studies’ offered by Nader el-Bizri, American University of Beirut, April 17th, 2015“The Other Mediterranean or the Mediterranean’s Other? The Red Sea in History,” Lecture delivered at Ko? University, Istanbul, February 27th, 2015“Orientalism and History,” Lecture in the course ‘Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies’ offered by Tariq al-Tell, American University of Beirut, October 17th, 2014“Other Geographies: Visions of the Sea before European Hegemony,” Paper presented at the “Indian Ocean before Western Colonization Research Network” of the Ifriqiyya initiative, Columbia University, New York, May 4th-5th, 2014 “Ranke of the Arabs: Asad Rustum and the Making of Post-Ottoman History,” Paper presented at the conference “Birzeit University’s Digital Archive in an International Perspective – Toward a Chaotic Order,” Birzeit University, March 24th-25th, 2014“Arab Critiques of Orientalism before Orientalism,” Paper presented at the panel “The Arab Edward Said” of the “Transnational American Studies” conference, American University of Beirut, January 2014“The Specter of Palestine at AUB,” Paper presented at the conference “AUB: A Century and a Half,” American University of Beirut, May 13th, 2013“The Birth of Arab History,” Paper presented at the conference “Beyond Liberalism and Islamism: Homage to Albert Hourani,” American University of Beirut, May 8th, 2013“History and the Humanities: Towards an Epistemology of Composition”, Lecture delivered for the Arts and Humanities Initiative, American University of Beirut, November 23rd, 2012“The Quest for the Ottoman Red Sea,” Paper presented at The First International Congress of Eurasian Maritime History, Istanbul, November 5th-7th, 2012“Is the Human in Human Rights the Human in Humanities?” Paper presented at the conference “The International Conference on Human Rights and the Humanities,” American University of Beirut, May 9th-11th, 2012“Orientalism and History,” Lecture in the ‘Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies’ led by Tarif Khalidi, American University of Beirut, November 25th, 2011 “The Arab Revolution: Three Circles of Temporality,” Lecture for the special panel “Engaging Change in the Middle East,” American University of Beirut, April 7th, 2011“Europe, Africa, and the Sea,” Paper presented at the conference “Knowledge and Transmission. Islam and Eastern Coastal Africa,” Lamu, July 22nd-24th, 2010“The Idea of a History of the Ottoman Red Sea,” Lecture delivered at the American University of Beirut, March 12th, 2009“The Sea and the Non-European: Genealogies of the Thalassographic Imagination,” Paper presented at the 10th Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, Florence, 25-28 March 2009“History, Modernity, Middle East: A Genealogical Introduction,” Opening lecture for Rashid Khalidi’s course: “History of Modern Middle East,” Columbia University, January 19th, 2007“One, Two, Many Intifadas: Palestine and the Struggle for History,” Paper presented at the workshop on “Palestine: History, Identity, Territoriality,” Birzeit University, May 6th, 2006“Conceptualizing Stalinism,” Lecture presented in Bradley Abrams’ course: “The Turbulent Century: Eastern Europe, 1914-1989,” Columbia University, November 3rd, 2005“From Pax Romana to Pax Americana: The Idea of the Mediterranean in the French Imaginary between Orientalism and Altermondialisme,” Paper presented at the 6th Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, Florence, March 20th, 2005“Les Apparitions de la Nation chez Amilcar Cabral,” Paper presented at the Simpósio Internacional Amilcar Cabral, Praia, Cape Verde, September 12th, 2004“Outside In: A Topographical History of the Palestinian National Movement,” Lecture presented in the seminar on Middle East Politics organized by Caroline Abu Saada, New York University in Paris, June 15th, 2003 Honors and awardsMellon Faculty Fellow, Arts and Humanities Initiative, American University of Beirut, Fall 2012Richard Hofstadter Fellowship, Columbia University, Department of History, Sep. 2003-May 2009Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship, Aug. 2007-Aug. 2008President’s Teaching Fellow, Columbia University, Sep. 2004-May 2007Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for the study of the Turkish language, U.S. Department of Education, Summer 2006Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for the study of the Persian language, U.S. Department of Education, Academic Year 2004-2005Senior Essay nominated for “Rest of the World Prize,” Yale University, Department of History, May 2002 ................
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