Keith D. Watenpaugh
Associate Director
Center for Peace and Global Studies
and
Assistant Professor
Eastern Mediterranean and Islamic History
Office: RH 409
Office Hours: On leave through January 2005
Phone: (315) 445-4477
Email:watenpkd@lemoyne.edu
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I first became interested in the History of
the Islamic Eastern Mediterranean/ Middle East during my junior
year as an exchange fellow at the American University in Cairo.
After graduating from the University of Washington with a
double BA (honors) in History and Near Eastern Languages and
Civilizations - and a brief period of time as a National Park
Ranger in Oregon and Alaska - I began graduate studies in
Modern Middle Eastern History at UCLA. I completed my doctorate
in 1999.
While a graduate student I received both the
Fulbright-Hays and Social Science Resarch Council dissertation
research abroad fellowships. And before coming to Le Moyne,
I was the Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Middle
Eastern Studies at Williams College.
I have spent several years conducting research
and living in Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel,
Morocco and Egypt.
In addition to World History, I teach a sequence
of classes in Middle Eastern and Islamic History. Also, I
lead senior seminars in Comparative Genocide, the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict and Cultural Studies.
My own research examines issues of colonialism,
class and modernity in the urban history of the cities of
the Eastern Mediterranean. Several articles related to this
topic have been published in journals like the International
Journal of Middle Eastern Studies and Social History.
Princeton University Press is publishing my book Being
Modern in the Middle East.
I am a member of the Middle East Studies
Association and the founding editor of H-Levant, the H-Net
network for the Modern Middle East. My future work examines
questions of civil society, nationalism and neocolonialism
in the context of the contemporary history of Iraq.
I also designed the new program in Peace
and Global Studies at Le Moyne College. The program is
built around questions about ethics and justice in an era
of globalization.
My own interest in peacemaking and the challenges
of globalization has led me to become involved in efforts
to help rebuild Iraq and to appear on local television to
talk about violence in the Middle East.
Recently, I was appointed the Islamic Middle
East section editor, for the new e-journal History
Compass.
In my few spare moments, I take advantage
of the natural beauty of post-industrial central New York
by fly-fishing many of the region's streams and rivers.
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Links
Middle East
Studies Association
H-Levant
H-Turk
Syrian Studies
Association
Trout Unlimited
Fly fishing for steelhead, Hoh River, Olympic
National Park, February 2004
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Courses: 2004-2006:
History of the Middle East 1:
Rise of Islam-Crusades (600 - 1248)
History of the Middle East 2:
The Gun Powder Empires (1300 - 1774)
History of the Middle East 3:
The Modern Middle East
Comparative Genocide
History and Memory in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
History and Culture in the Modern Middle East:
Film, Media, the Arts and the Internet
Available to LMC users at Blackboard - to receive
more information please contact me.
Book
Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution,
Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Middle Class in the Arab Eastern
Mediterranean (1908-1946) Princeton: Princeton University Press,
forthcoming.
Publications
Articles and Book Chapters:
“Cleansing
the Cosmopolitan City: Historicism, Journalism and the Arab Nation
in the Post-Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean,” Social
History 30:1 (2005)
“Colonial
Cooperation and the Survivors’ Bargain - The Post-Genocide
Armenian Community of Syria under French Mandate,” in
The British and French Mandates in Comparative Perspective,
Peter Sluglett et al., eds., (Leiden: Brill, 2004) 597-622.
“Middle-class Modernity and the Persistence
of the Politics of Notables in Syria under French Rule,” The
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 35 (2003). 257-286.
“Steel Shirts, White Badges and the last Qabaday:
Fascist Forms and the Transformation of Urban Violence in French
Mandate Syria” in France, Syrie et Liban, 1918-1846 - les
dynamiques et les ambiguïtés de la relation mandataire,
Nadine Méouchy, ed., (Damascus: Institut Français
d’Études Arabes de Damas Press, 2003) 325-347.
"'Creating Phantoms:' Zaki
al-Arsuzi, The Alexandretta Crisis and the Formation of Modern Arab
Nationalism in Syria," in The International Journal
of Middle East Studies, 28 (1996), 363-389.
Other Writing
“Between
Saddam and the American Occupation: Iraq’s Academic Community
Struggles for Autonomy,” Academe: Bulletin of the
American Assn. of University Professors, 90:5 (September-October
2004) 18-24.
“Opening
the Doors One Year Later: Reflections on the Iraq War and the Middle
East Studies Community,” Bulletin of the Middle East Studies
Association 38:1 (Summer 2004) 16-23.
“Futuh al-abwab: al-haya al-fikriyya wa al-ahwal
al-akadimiyya fi Baghdad ma bcad al-harb,” al-Mustaqbal
al-carabi, 26 (October 2003) 142-164 (Arabic trans. of
Opening the Doors).
“A
Fragile Glasnost on the Tigris” Middle East Report, 228:
Fall 2003
With Edouard Méténier, Jens Hanssen and Hala Fattah,
“Opening
the Doors: Academic Conditions and Intellectual Life in Post-War
Baghdad,” The Iraqi Observatory (15 July 2003)
“The
Guiding Principles and the U.S. “Mandate” for Iraq: 20th
Century Colonialism and America’s New Empire,” Logos
(Winter: 2003)
Recent Conference Presentations
“Cosmopolitan Citizenship and the Phantasm
of ‘Ottoman Imperialism,’”
4th Bilad al-Sham Conference: The Roots of Liberal Thought in
the Eastern Mediterranean, University of Erlangen, Germany
7/1/2005.
“The Generation of 1900 in Rashid
Ali al-Kaylani’s Baghdad (1940-1941): Reassessing the Iraqi
Interregnum and Early Pan-Arabist Thought,” Iraq: Notions
of Self and the Other since the Late-Ottoman Era, Royal Institute
for Inter-Faith Studies (RIIFS) Amman, Jordan, 1/7/2005
“Killing Intellectuals and Violence against
Publics in post-War Iraq,” Thematic Conversation: “Rebuilding
Public Spheres in Iraq,” Annual Meeting, Middle East
Studies Association, San Francisco, 11/21/2004
“Rebuilding
Iraq’s Academic Community and the Challenges of Civil Society
in Civil War,” Center for Arab
and Islamic Studies, Villanova University, Philadelphia 9/29/2004
“Journalism, Media and the Culture of the American Occupation
in Post-Baathist Iraq,” 3rd International Conference on
the History of Journalism in the Middle East, University of
Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 5/25/2004
“Opportunities and Challenges for Undergraduate International
Studies Programs in Iraq and the Arab World” Undergraduate
Title-VI Directors’ Session, concurrent with the Annual
Meeting, International Studies Association, Montreal, Quebec 3/18/2004
“Whose Art Really Matters in Post-War Iraq:
Islamic and Ottoman Architecture and the Culture of the American
Occupation,” Special Advocacy Session: Cultural Heritage
in Time of War, Annual Meeting, College Art Association, Seattle,
2/20/2004
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