Ussama Makdisi is an American historian, specializing in the history of the modern Middle East. He is a professor of history and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California, Berkeley.[1]
Makdisi's research focuses on the cultural and political history of the Middle East, with emphasis on identity, sectarianism, nationalism, and modernity.[2]
In 2018, he was awarded the Berlin Prize.[3]
Early life
[edit]Ussama Makdisi was born in 1968 in Washington, D.C. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University and later earned his Ph.D. in History from Princeton University.[2]
Academic career
[edit]Makdisi held the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He has also served as a visiting professor at the American University of Beirut and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.[4]
From 2012 to 2013, he was a resident fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study.[5]
Books
[edit]- Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World (University of California Press, 2019)
- Faith Misplaced: the Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations, 1820-2001 (Public Affairs, 2010)
- Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (Cornell University Press, 2008)
- The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (University of California Press, 2000)
- co-editor Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa (Indiana University Press, 2006)
References
[edit]- ^ "Ussama Makdisi | Department of History".
- ^ a b "Wiko Recollections | Ussama Makdisi" (PDF). Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
- ^ "American Academy in Berlin Announces 2017–18 Berlin Prize Recipients" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-10-16.
- ^ "Ussama Makdisi". Department of History. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
- ^ "Ussama Makdisi".