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EDUCATION

Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations (Modern Middle Eastern History), Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, University of  Chicago (With Honors)       

Dissertation: “THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF IRAQ’S NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, 1918-1932: POLICING AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY IN THE IRAQ-NEJD AND IRAQ-SYRIA BORDERLANDS”

2018 Ph.D

Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Orit Bashkin, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

2009 M.A.

Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago

M.A. Thesis: "HISTORY IN TRANSLATION: ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROPAGANDA FROM THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR, 1980-1988"

M.A. Thesis Advisor: Dr. Ada Holly Shissler, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

2004 B.A.

History, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

Minor: Political Science

HONORS & AWARDS

2016

Affiliated Fellow, Franke Institute for the Humanities

University of Chicago

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2016

Provost’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship

University of Chicago

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2015

Nicholson Center for British Studies Fellowship

University of Chicago

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2012

Annual Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Persian)

University of Chicago

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2008

Annual Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Arabic)

University of Chicago

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