Lecture: Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Area Studies/Middle East Studies in the United States

Lecture: Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Area Studies/Middle East Studies in the United States

Tuesday, 30 May 2017 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Investcorp Auditorium
Speaker(s): 
Professor Zachary Lockman (NYU)

Zachary Lockman has taught modern Middle Eastern history at New York University since 1995. His most recent book is Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States (2016). His other books include Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism (2004/2010); Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 (1996); and (with Joel Beinin) Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954 (1987). He is a former president of the Middle East Studies Association, chairs the wing of MESA’s Committee on Academic Freedom that deals with North America, and is a contributing editor of Middle East Report.