Michael R. Fischbach, Ph.D.
Randolph-Macon College
304 Henry Street
Ashland, VA 23005, U.S.A.
Telephone: +1 804-752-7234
Fax: +1 804-752-7231
Email: mfischba@rmc.edu
EDUCATION
| 1992 | Georgetown University Doctor of Philosophy, History |
| 1986 | Georgetown University Master of Arts, Arab Studies |
| 1980 | Northwestern University Bachelor of Arts, History |
PROFESSIONAL |
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| 1992-Present | Randolph-Macon College Professor, Department of History (2003-present) Associate Professor, Department of History (1998-2003) Assistant Professor, Department of History (1993-98) Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History (1992-93) |
| 1985-Present | Projects with United Nations Development Programme, Library of Congress, Kuwait University, Institute for Palestine Studies, InterMedia Survey Group, Adam Smith Institute, International Development Research Centre, Norwegian Refugee Council, Rabbis for Human Rights, Haqal (The Field) — United in the Defense of Human Rights, Middle Eastern negotiators, academics, NGOs, business organizations, film makers, novelists Consultant, expert witness |
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Sirhan Sirhan and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Palestine, America, and the Depoliticization of a Tragedy (manuscript in preparation)
The Movement and the Middle East: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left. Stanford University Press, 2019
Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018
Encyclopedia of the Palestinians, 3rd edition (co-edited with Philip Mattar). New York: Facts On File, InfoBaseLearning, 2017 (e-book)
Malafat al-Salb: Mulkiyat al-Laji’in al-Filastiniyyin wa’l-Sira` al-`Arabi al-Isra’ili (translation of Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict [see below]). Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2013
`Amaliyyat al-Salam wa Mutalibat al-Laji’in al-Filastiniyyin: Dirasa fi Mutalibat Ta`wid al-Mulkiya wa I`adat al-Mumtalikat (Arabic translation of The Peace Process and Palestinian Refugee Claims [see below]). Amman: Philadelphia University, 2010
Jewish Property Claims Against Arab Countries. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008
The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (editor-in-chief). Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Cengage, 2007
The Peace Process and Palestinian Refugee Claims: Addressing Claims for Property Compensation and Restitution. Washington: United States Institute of Peace, 2006
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, second edition (associate editor). New York: Macmillan Reference, 2004
Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003; reprint edition, Cairo: The American University of Cairo Press, 2004
State, Society, and Land in Jordan. Leiden, Köln, Boston: Brill, 2000
Articles, Chapters
“West German Holocaust Reparations and Palestinian Refugee Compensation.” De Vita, Lorena, and Constantin Goschler, eds. Reinventing Reparations: Wassenaar 1952 (not yet submitted for review)
“Black Power and Palestine: African-Americans, the Global Color Line, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in the 1960s and 1970s.” Tatour, Lana with Ronit Lentin, eds., Race and the Question of Palestine (under review by Stanford University Press)
“Black 1968 and Palestine: Transnationalism, Anti-Imperialism, and Revolutionary Culture.” Parsons, Timothy, ed., Black 1968 (scheduled for review by Routledge Press)
“American Activists’ Solidarity Trips and Interactions with Palestinians.” Thomson, Sorcha and Pelle Valentin Olsen, eds., Palestine in the World: International Solidarity with the Palestinian Liberation Movement. London: I.B. Tauris, 2023
“Sirhan Sirhan and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Palestinian Rage and the Depoliticization of a Tragedy.” Middle East Journal 76, 2 (Summer 2022): 245-64
“The 1948 War and its Consequences,” co-authored with Taylor L. Williams. Siniver, Asaf, ed. Routledge Companion to the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, 2022
“How a Middle East Experience Led to the Formation of MERIP.” Review of Middle East Studies 55 (2022): 234-40
“Nakba Denial: Israeli Resistance to Palestinian Refugee Reparations.” Bhabha, Jacqueline, with Caroline Elkins, and Margareta Matache, eds. Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021
“Give Peace a Chance?: The Anti-War Movement and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.” The Sixties 13, 2 (2020): 77-97
“What Color are Israeli Jews?: Intersectionality, Israel Advocacy, and the Changing Discourse of Color and Indigeneity.” Dorchin, Uri, and Gabriella Djerrahian, eds. Blackness in Israel: Rethinking Racial Boundaries. London and New York: Routledge, 2020
“The New Left and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in America.” Journal of Palestine Studies 49, 3 (Spring 2020): 7-21
“Transnational Peoples of Color: Black Power in America and the Middle East.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 52, 1 (February 2020): 167-72
“Palestinian Offices in the U.S.: Microcosms of the Palestinian Experience.” Journal of Palestine Studies 48, 1 (Autumn 2018): 104-18
“My Forty Days Among the Jordanian Qawm,” The Arab World Geographer 19, 3-4 (September-December 2016): 119-208
“Addressing Jewish Claims in the Context of a Palestinian-Israeli Agreement.” Brynen, Rex, and Roula El-Rifai, eds. The Palestinian Refugee Problem: the Search for a Solution. Pluto Press, 2013
“Linking Palestinian Compensation Claims with Jewish Property Claims Against Arab Countries.” Brynen, Rex, and Roula El-Rifai, eds. Palestinian Refugee Compensation and the Search for Palestinian-Israeli Peace. Pluto Press, 2013
“The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine’s Records on Palestinian Refugee Property Losses.” Ibid.
“Jewish Property Claims and Post-Qaddafi Libya.” Middle East Report No. 263 (Summer 2012): 44-45, 48
“Die Katastrophe von 1948: Wie die Nakba die Geschichte die Palästinenser beeinflusst hat” [The 1948 Disaster: The Ways that the Nakba has Influenced Palestinian History]. Palästina und die Palästinenser: 60 Jahre nach der Nakba [Palestine and the Palestinians: 60 Years after the Nakba]. Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and Christian Sterzing: 2011
“British and Zionist Data Gathering on Palestinian Land Ownership and Population during the Mandate.” Zureik, Elia, David Lyon and Yasmeen Abu-Laban, eds. Surveillance and Control in Israel-Palestine: Population, Territory,and Power. Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics. London and New York: Routledge, 2010
“Palestinian Refugee Compensation and Israeli Counterclaims for Jewish Property in Arab Countries,” Journal of Palestine Studies 38, 1 (Autumn 2008): 6-24
“Claiming Iraqi Jewish Communal Property in Iraq,” Middle East Report No. 248 (Fall 2008): 5-7
“Comparing Palestinian and Mizrahi Jewish Property Losses in Discourse and Diplomacy.” Lustick, Ian, and Ann M. Lesch, eds. Exile and Return: Predicaments of Palestinians and Jews. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005
“The British Land Program, State-Societal Cooperation, and Popular Imagination in Transjordan.” Sluglett, Peter, and Nadine Meouchy, eds., with Gérard Khoury and Geoffrey Schad. The French and British Mandates in Comparative Perspectives/Les Mandats FranVais et Anglais dans une Perspective Comparative (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004)
“The United Nations and Palestinian Refugee Property Compensation.” Journal of Palestine Studies 31, 2 (Winter 2002): 34-50
“Les Nations unies et l’indemnisation des réfugiés.” Mardam-Bey, Farouk, and Elias Sanbar, eds., le Droit au Retour: le problème des réfugiés palestiniens. Paris: Sindbad/Actes Sud, 2002
“Britain and the Ghawr Abi `Ubayda Waqf Controversy in Transjordan.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 33, 4 (November 2001): 525-544
“UN Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Land Records.” Tamari, Salim, and Elia Zureik, eds., Reinterpreting the Historical Records: The Uses of Palestinian Refugee Archives for Social Science and Policy Analysis Research (1947- 2000). Jerusalem: Institute for Jerusalem Studies and Institute for Palestine Studies, 2001
“Jordan.” Magnarella, Paul J., ed., The Middle East and North Africa: Governance, Democratization, Human Rights. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publications, 1999
“Settling Historical Land Claims in the Wake of Arab-Israeli Peace.” Journal of Palestine Studies 27, 1 (Autumn 1997): 38-50
“Documenting land in the Palestinian Authority.” Middle East Report No. 202 (Vol.27, No. 1 [Winter 1997]): 45-48
“The Cadastral Situation in Amman in the mid-1940s.” al-Manarah 1, 1 (January 1996) [AL al-Bayt University, Jordan]: 109-118
“The Modern Political Uses of Dusty Historical Documents.” CIRA Bulletin 11, 2 (Winter 1996) [Center for Iranian Research and Analysis]: 13-15
“British Land Policy in Transjordan.” Rogan, Eugene L., and Tariq Tell, eds., Village, Steppe & State: The Social Origins of Jordan. London and New York: British Academic Press, 1994
“The Palestinians.” Tachau, Frank, ed., Political Parties in the Middle East and North Africa. The Greenwood Historical Encyclopedia of the World’s Political Parties. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994
“The Implications of Jordanian Land Policy for the West Bank.” Middle East Journal 48, 3 (Summer 1994): 492-509
“Palestinian Land Documents.” Middle East Report No. 186 (Vol. 24, No. 1, January/February 1994): 14
“Al-Mukhayba Village: A Tale of Shaykhs, Efendis, Peasants, and Land in Transjordan.” Dirasat 21 A, 1 (February 1994) [University of Jordan]: 46-71
“New Indigenous Sources for the Socio-Economic History of Transjordan During the Mandate.” (with Abla Amawi) Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 25, 2 (December 1991): 169-172
“Observations on Land Ownership in Liwa’ `Ajlun During the Mandate.” al-Nadwa 2, 3 (October 1990) [World Affairs Council of Jordan]: 26-30
Encyclopedia Entries
“Palestinian Refugee Property Claims.” Rubenberg, Cheryl, ed. Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010
“Mahmud Abbas,” “Abu Mus`ab al-Zarqawi,” numerous other entries. Fischbach, Michael R., editor-in-chief, The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Cengage, 2007
“Jordan.” Stearns, Peter N., editor-in-chief. Encyclopedia of the Modern World New York: Oxford University Press, 2007
“Hussein bin Talal.” Darity, William A., ed. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, second edition. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale, 2007
“Saddam Hussein,” “Iraq.” Shelton, Dinah L., ed., Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. New York: Thomson Gale, 2004
“Abdullah II ibn Hussein,” “Hamas,” “War in Iraq (2003),” “Palestinian Authority,” numerous other entries. Mattar, Philip, ed., Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. Macmillan Reference USA. New York: Thomson Gale, 2004
“Land,” “Jerusalem,” numerous other entries. Mattar, Philip, ed., Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. New York: Facts On File, 2000; revised edition: Facts On File, 2005; internet edition, 2017
“Palestinian Authority.” Collier’s International Year Book [1997, 1998]. New York: P.F. Collier
“Palestinian Authority.” Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia Yearbook [1997, 1998]. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Corporation
“Hamas” numerous other entries. Bulliet, Richard, Philip Mattar, and Reeva Simon, eds., Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East. New York: Macmillan Press, 1996
“Palestine Liberation Organization.” Collier’s International Year Book 1996. New York: P.F. Collier, 1996
“Palestine Liberation Organization.” Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia Yearbook 1996. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Corporation, 1996
Reviews
Peter Shambrook, Policy of Deceit: Britain and Palestine, 1914-1939 (Journal of Islamic Studies, forthcoming)
Burleigh Hendrickson, Decolonizing 1968: Transnational Student Activism in Tunis, Paris, and Dakar (Journal of Contemporary History, forthcoming)
Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (American Historical Review 127, 3 [September 2022])
Seth Anziska, Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo (American Historical Review 127, 1 [March 2022])
R. Joseph Parrott and Mark Atwood Lawrence, eds., The Tricontinental Revolution: Third World Radicalism and the Cold War (The Global Sixties 14, 3 [2022])
Susie Linfield, The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky (American Jewish History 104, 4 [2020])
Teishan Latner, The Cuban Revolution in America (Diplomatic History 44, 4 [September 2020])
Nicholas E. Roberts, Islam Under the Palestine Mandate: Colonialism and the Supreme Muslim Council (Journal of Islamic Studies 39, 3 [September 2018])
Björn Brenner, Gaza Under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Government (Journal of Islamic Studies 29, 2 [May 2018])
J.M.N. Jeffries, ed. by William M. Mathew, The Palestine Deception 1915-1923: The McMahon-Hussein Correspondence, the Balfour Declaration, and the Jewish National Home (Journal of Palestine Studies 47, 1 (Autumn 2017)
Lorenzo Kamel, Imperial Perceptions of Palestine: British Influence and Power in Late Ottoman Times (Journal of Palestine Studies 45, 5 [Summer 2016])
Noah Haiduc-Dale, Arab Christians in Mandate Palestine: Communalism and Nationalism, 1917-1948 (Journal of Islamic Studies [August 2015])
Aida Asim Essaid, Zionism and Land Tenure in Mandate Palestine J(Journal of Islamic Palestine Studies 44, 1 [Autumn 2014])
Adel Safty, Might Over Right: How the Zionists Took Over Palestine (Journal of Palestine Studies 42, 2 [Winter 2013])
Nigel Ashton, King Hussein of Jordan: A Political Life (International Journal of Middle East Studies 44, 4 (November 2012): 839-41.
Richard Breitman, Barbara McDonald Steward, and Severin Hochberg, eds., Refugees and Rescue: The Diaries and Papers of James McDonald 1935-1945 (Journal of Palestine Studies 40, 1 [Autumn 2010])
Esmail Nashif, Palestinian Political Prisoners: Identity and Community (Journal of Islamic Studies 22, 2 [2011])
Ilana Feldman, Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917-1967 (Journal of Islamic Studies 22, 2 [2011])
Neve Gordon, Israel’s Occupation (Marine Corps University Journal 1,1 [Spring 2010])
Hillel Cohen, Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948 (American Historical Review 114, 4 [October 2009])
Martin Bunton, Colonial Land Policies in Palestine 1917-1936 (Journal of Palestine Studies 38, 2 [Winter 2009])
Michael Chiller-Glaus, Tackling the Intractable: Palestinian Refugees and the Search for Middle East Peace (Journal of Palestine Studies 37, 8 [Spring 2008])
Michael Dumper, ed., Palestinian Refugee Repatriation: Global Perspectives (MESA Bulletin 41, 2 [Winter 2008])
Michael Dumper, The Future for Palestinian Refugees: Toward Equity and Peace (Journal of Palestine Studies 37, 2 [Winter 2008])
Kimberly Katz, Jordanian Jerusalem: Holy Places and National Spaces (H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine, 2007)
Julie Peteet, Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps (American Historical Review 111, 5 [December 2006])
Review essay: Philip Robins, A History of Jordan; Ellen Lust-Okar, Structuring Conflict in the Arab World: Incumbents, Opponents, and Institutions; Russell E. Lucas, Institutions and the Politics of Survival in Jordan: Domestic Responses to External Challenges, 1988-2001; Betty S. Anderson, Nationalist Voices in Jordan: The Street and the State; Riad M. Nasser, Palestinian Identity in Jordan and Israel: The Necessary “Other” in the Making of a Nation (MESA Bulletin 40,1 [June 2006])
Ilan Troen, Imagining Zion: Dreams, Designs, and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement (American Historical Review 110, 4 [October 2005])
Itamar Levin, Locked Doors. The Seizure of Jewish Property in Arab Countries (International Journal of Middle East Studies 36, 2 [May 2004])
Raphael Israeli, Green Crescent Over Nazareth: the Displacement of Christians by Muslims in the Holy Land (Shofar 22, 2 [Winter 2004])
Calvin Goldscheider, Cultures in Conflict – the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Shofar 22,2 [Winter 2004])
Hanna Batatu, Syria’s Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics (American Historical Review 106, 5 ([December 2001])
Adnan Abu-Odeh, Jordanians, Palestinians & the Hashemite Kingdom in the Middle East Peace Process (International Journal of Middle East Studies 32, 4 [November 2000])
A.L. Macfie, The End of the Ottoman Empire 1908-1923 (Middle East Journal 53, 4 [Autumn 1999])
Ehud Toledano, Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East (Middle East Journal 53, 2 [Spring 1999])
Suraiya Faroqhi, Pilgrims and Sultans. The Hajj under the Ottomans 1517-1683 (Middle East Journal 52, 1 [Winter 1998])
Laurie A. Brand, Jordan’s Inter-Arab Relations: The Political Economy of Alliance Making (Middle East Journal 50, 2 [Spring 1996])
Schirin Fathi, Jordan: A Nation Invented? Tribe, State Dynamics and the Formation of National Identity (International Journal of Middle East Studies 28, 1 [February 1996])
Joseph Nevo and Ilan Pappé, eds., Jordan in the Middle East: the Making of a Pivotal State 1948-1988 (Journal of Palestine Studies 25, 1 [Fall 1995])
Donna Robinson Divine, Politics and Society in Ottoman Palestine. The Arab Struggle for Survival and Power (Middle East Journal 49, 2 [Spring 1995]).
Kamal Salibi, The Modern History of Jordan (Journal of Palestine Studies 23, 2 [Winter 1995])
Linda L. Layne, Home and Homeland. The Dialogics of Tribal and
National Identities in Jordan (Middle East Journal 48, 4 [Autumn 1994])
The Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights, Report on the Violations of Human Rights in the Territories During the Uprising, 1988 (Journal of Palestine Studies 59, 2 [Winter 1989])
Numerous “Shorter Notices” [short reviews], Journal of Palestine Studies
Journalistic Articles, Opinion Pieces
Los Angeles Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, History News Network, Aufbau, Middle East International, Daily Star, Middle East Land and Development, Jordan Times, Population Today
Conference Papers
“Native Struggles Against Settler Colonialism: Palestine Solidarity Among Indian and Latinx Peoples in the U.S. from the 1960s Until Today,” the Annual Palestine Forum, the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and Institute for Palestine Studies, Doha, Qatar, January 2023
Participant, “International Solidarity with Palestinians – Palestinian Internationalist Solidarities,” the “Radical History Review/Historians for Peace and Democracy Roundtable,” American Historical Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA (presented virtually), January 2023
“American Solidarity Activists and the Globalization of the Palestinian Cause During the Long 1960s.” “Towards the Global History of Solidarity Movements with Palestinians, 1950s-1980s” Workshop, Roskilde University and the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (presented virtually), March 2022
“Enduring Impact of Historical Injustice,” the “Human Rights Day — Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective” Webinar (presented virtually), FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University, Cambridge, December 2021
“Reconstructing American Activists’ Solidarity Trips and Interactions with Palestinians.” “Archival Methods and Global Palestine in the 1960s and 1970s” Workshop (presented virtually), Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark, April 2021
“Israeli Nakba Denial and Palestinian Refugees: Imposing and Resisting Spatial and Ideological Boundaries,” Eleventh Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies, Helsinki, Finland, August 2019
“Both Visible and Invisible: ‘The Spook Who Sat by the Door’ and Armed Black Militancy in the 1960s and 1970s,” at the “Black Revolutionary Thought from Gabriel to Black Lives Matter: the Seventh Annual Lemon Project Spring Symposium,” The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, March 2017
“Integrating Indigenous Peoples into Modern Bureaucratic Regimes: Palestinian Land and Bodies Under Ottoman and British Rule.” “The Legal Geography of Indigenous Communities: The Bedouins in Comparative Perspective” workshop, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel, October 2016
“Both Visible and Invisible: ‘The Spook Who Sat by the Door’ and Armed Black Militancy in the 1960s and 1970s,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History annual meeting, Richmond, October 2016
Participated in the “Palestinian Refugees: Stock-taking Meeting,” Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs), Minster Lovell, UK, October 2011
“Was There an ‘Exchange’? The Impacts of the 1947-48 Palestine Partition and War on Populations and Property.” “Trajectories of Partition in South Asia and the Middle East: Comparative Historical Perspectives” international conference, The National Archives of India, University of Kolkata, and the Maulana Abul Kalam Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata. New Delhi, India, September 2011
“Palestinian Refugee Property Claims in Regional Perspective.” “The Arab Peace Initiative and Israeli-Palestinian Peace: The Political Economy of a New Period” international conference, the Aix Group. Rabat, Morocco, February 2011
Participated in the “International Institutions and an Implementation Mechanism for Palestinian Refugees” seminar, Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs), Glion sur Montreux, Switzerland, September 2010
“The Impact of the 1948 Disaster: The Ways that the Nakba has Influence Palestinian History.” “The Transformation of Palestine: Palestine and the Palestinians After the ‘Nakba'” international symposium, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. Berlin, March 2010
“The Importance of British and Zionist Data Gathering on Palestinian Land Ownership and Population During the Mandate.” “States of Exception, Surveillance and Population Management: The Case of Israel-Palestine” Workshop of Queen’s University’s “New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting” Project. Larnaca, Cyprus, December 2008
“Irbid as Conduit of Tanzimat-Era Ottoman Land Policies in Southern Syria (Northern Transjordan).” American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting. Boston, November 2008
“Refugee Properties and Compensation.” United Nations Special Meeting to Mark 60 Years of Dispossession of the Palestine Refugees. New York, June 2008
“Origins of the Palestine Refugee Problem — 60 Years of Dispossession and Tragedy.” United Nations International Conference on Palestine Refugees. Paris, April 2008
“The Immigration of British Land Practices into Transjordan.” “The Immigration of Land Law” conference, Interdisciplinary Center. Herzliya, Israel, December 2007
“The Complexities Surrounding Jewish Property Claims Against Libya,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting. Montréal, Canada, November 2007
“Recent Developments Relating to Palestinian Refugee and Mizrahi Jewish Property Claims.” Association for Israel Studies Conference. Banff, Canada, May 2006
“Palestinian and Mizrahi Jewish Property Claims in Discourse and Diplomacy.” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting. Washington, December 2005
“The Future of Palestinian Refugee Property Claims.” “Palestinian Refugees: International Law, Human Rights Conventions, UN Resolutions. Past, Present, and Future Perspectives” conference. Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2005
“The UNCCP and the Palestinian Refugees: Early Attempts at Achieving Return, Compensation, and Restitution.” “A Just Solution for the Palestinian Refugees?” international seminar, organized by A’idun Group (Lebanon & Syria) in cooperation with the University of Damascus. Damascus, Syria, September 2004
“Legal and Diplomatic Issues Stemming from Israeli Expropriation of Palestinian Refugee Land.” Middle East Studies Association of North America. Anchorage, November 2003
“The Usefulness of the UNCCP Archives for Palestinian Refugee
Compensation/Restitution Claims.” Badil Expert Seminar on Palestinian Refugee Housing and Property Restitution. Geneva, Switzerland, October 2003
“The Usefulness of the UNCCP Archives for Palestinian Refugee
Compensation/Restitution Claims.” Stocktaking II Conference on Palestinian Refugee Research, International Development Research Centre. Ottawa, Canada June 2003
“Using Historical Documents in Negotiations Over Refugee Property Compensation.” The Fourth Mediterranean Social and Political Research conference of The Mediterranean Programme, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute. Florence and Montecatini Terme, Italy, March 2003
“Comparing Palestinian and Mizrahi Jewish Property Claims after 1948.” “The Predicaments of Palestinians and Jews: The Meanings of Catastrophe, Historical Knowledge, and the Return of Exiles” conference, United States Institute for Peace and Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, October 2002 and June 2003
“Women and Property in Jordan in the Modern Period.” “Women and the Labor Market the Islamic World Past and Present” conference of Harvard Law School’s Islamic Legal Studies Program and Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Cambridge, May 2002
“Mr. Dowson Goes to Transjordan.” Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting. San Francisco, November 2001
“The British Land Program, State-Societal Cooperation, and Popular Imagination in “Transjordan.” “The Mandates in Comparative Perspective” conference. Aix en Provence, France, June 2001
“Mandatory Land Records, the U.N., and Palestinian Refugee Property Rights.” Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting. Orlando, November 2000
“Land Policies and the Creation of ‘Jordan’.” Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting. Chicago, December 1998
“Land Policies and Socio-Economic Structures.” “Social Identities, Development Policies and the State in Jordan, 1946-1996” seminar series, Centre pour les études et des recherches sur le Moyen-Orient contemporaine (CERMOC). Amman, Jordan, August 1998
“Women, Land, and the State in Transjordan.” “Social History of Jordan Pt. 1” conference, al-Urdun al-Jadid Research Centre. Amman, Jordan, March 1998
“The Social Bases of the Anglo-Hashemite Regime in Transjordan.” Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting. San Francisco, November 1997
“Settling Historical Land Claims in the Wake of Arab-Israeli Peace.” Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting. Providence, November 1996
“Law, Custom, and Flexible Understandings of Waqf in Rural Ottoman Syria (Transjordan).” Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting. Phoenix, November 1994
“Britain and the Ghawr Abi `Ubayda Waqf Controversy in Transjordan.” Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting. Portland, October 1992 meeting (not presented)
“British Land Policy in Transjordan.” Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting. Washington, November 1991
Invited Lectures
Towson University, Department of History, March 2020
Christopher Newport University, Department of History, Department of English, African American Studies Program, Middle East and North African Studies Program, February 2020
Palestine Center, Washington, February 2020
Stanford University, Abbasi Program in Islamic Societies, February 2020
Columbia University, Center for Palestine Studies, November 2019
University of Richmond, Department of History, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, November 2019
Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, October 2019
Stanford University, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies and Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicities, April 2019
University of California at Los Angeles, Center for Near Eastern Studies, Department of African American Studies, Bunch Center for African American Studies, April 2019
Boston University, African American Studies Program, Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations, February 2019
Harvard University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, February 2019
University of Richmond, Department of History, January 2019
Palestine Center, Washington, December 2018
Virginia Commonwealth University, School of World Studies, November 2018
Columbia University, Center for Palestine Studies, forthcoming October 2018
College of William and Mary Law School, March 2018
University of Richmond, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and Department of History, October 2017
Norwegian Refugee Council, Bayt Jala, June 2017
Norwegian Refugee Council, Jerusalem, March 2016
World Affairs Council of Greater Richmond, March 2015
Palestine Center, Washington, November 2014
University of Virginia, Corcoran Department of History and Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages and Cultures, April 2012
Virginia Historical Society and World Affairs Council of Greater Richmond, April 2009
New York University, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, January 2009
Columbia University, Middle East Institute, November 2008
Palestine Center, Washington, March 2007
World Affairs Council of Greater Richmond, October 2005
University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, January 2005
Middle East Institute, Washington, March 2004
Palestine Center, Washington, January 2004
Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, December 2003
World Affairs Council of Seattle, December 2003
World Affairs Council of Los Angeles, December 2003
Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, November 2003
Institute for Jerusalem Studies and Shaml (Palestinian Diaspora and Refugee Centre), Ramallah, August 2003
Faysal al-Husayni Foundation, al-Ram, West Bank, August 2003
Institute for Palestine Studies, Beirut, August 2003
National Defense University, Washington, November 1999
World Affairs Council of Greater Richmond, January 1997
AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS
Finalist, Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award, the Jewish Book Council’s 2009 National Jewish Book Awards [for Jewish Property Claims Against Arab Countries] (2010)
Second Prize, British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize for Middle Eastern Studies, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies [for Jewish Property Claims Against Arab Countries] (2009)
Honorable Mention, first annual Benjamin L. Hooks Outstanding Book Award Contest, Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, University of Memphis [for Records of Dispossession] (2004)
United States Institute of Peace Grant (2003-2004)
Research and Writing Grant, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, granted through the Friends of the Institute for Palestine Studies (2000-2001)
Rashkind Endowment Grant, Randolph-Macon College (1999, 2007, 2015, 2023)
Walter Williams Craigie Teaching Endowment Grant, Randolph-Macon College (1994, 1996, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2021)
Maurice L. Mednick Memorial Fellowship, Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges (1996, 2008, 2011, 2014)
Thomas Branch Award for Excellence in Teaching, Randolph-Macon College (1995, 2018)
Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship, Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council (1990-91)
Fulbright Student Program Fellowship (1989-90)
Doctoral Fellowship, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University (1987-92)
Scholarship, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University(1984-86)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Article and book manuscript reviewer for: International Journal of Middle East Studies, The Middle East Journal, Journal of Refugee Studies, Journal of Palestine Studies, Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of Global History, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, British Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of Islamic Studies, Agricultural History, History & Memory, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Journal of Historical Geography, Israel Law Review, Law and Social Inquiry,Terrorism and Political Violence, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Nations and Nationalisms, Arab Studies Journal, Contemporary Review of the Middle East, Columbia University Press, Stanford University Press, State University of New York (SUNY) Press, University of Texas Press, University Press of Florida, Institute for Palestine Studies, Westview Press, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Routledge Press, I.B. Tauris, Palgrave Macmillan Publishers, Gale Cengage, Ginko Library
Grant reviewer for: National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, National Geographic Society, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (European University Institute), Austrian Academy of Sciences
Chair, Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Kerr Dissertation Committee, 2009
Member, MESA Kerr Dissertation Committee, 2008
Director, Palestinian American Research Center (1998-99; interim director, 2000)
Member, Academic Council, al-Urdun al-Jadid (The New Jordan) Center, Amman, Jordan, 1995-2005
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE (RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE)
Chair, search committee for an assistant professor in African American and/or Africana Diaspora in the history department and Black Studies program, 2021-22
Member, search committee for an assistant professor in the Black Studies program, 2020-21
History department’s representative to the Teacher Preparation Committee, 2018-20
Member, “Randolph-Macon College Moving Forward: Celebrating 50 Years of Integration” commemoration committee, 2016
Member, Budget Committee, 2009
Faculty representative to the cabinet and the board of trustees, 2008-09
Member, Strategic Planning Committee, 2008-09
Member, Diversity Project, 2007-08
Member, the Executive Committee, 2007, 1995-98
Member, Women’s Athletics Outreach Faculty Advisory Board, 2007-08
Faculty Advisor to student newspaper, 2006-07
Member, Publications Board, 2006-06, 1998-2001
Member, Judicial Board Review Committee, 2006-09
Member, Honorary Degree Committee, 2006-09
Member, International Studies Council, 1998-2004
President, Phi Alpha Theta History Honorary Society, 1998-2002
Member, Committee on Admissions, Credits, and the Academic Standing of Students, 1998-2004
Chair, Committee on Resources and Plans, 1996-98
Member, Committee on Resources and Plans, 1994-95
Member, search committees for assistant professors in the department of history, 1996-97, 1997-98, 2004-05, 2008-09, 2013-14, 2014-15
COURSES TAUGHT
INST [international studies] 100, Arabic Tutorial
HIST [history] 111, Europe: Renaissance to 1815
HIST 112, Europe from 1815
HIST 111, Foundations of the Modern World I
HIST 112, Foundations of the Modern World II
HIST 100, Modern Iraq
HIST 101, The Sixties
HIST 215, The Sixties
HIST 271, Middle East 500-1400
HIST 272, Modern Middle East
HIST 286, Islam and Politics
HIST 300, Historiography and Historical Methods
HIST 361, Modern Egypt
HIST 365, The Gulf War
HIST 367, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
HIST 381, Special Topics: History of Beer
HIST 400, Independent Research
HIST 481, Historical Methods: Brewing and History
Various other 300 and 400-level special topics, independent study, etc. courses
LANGUAGES
English (native speaker)
Arabic (Modern Standard and Greater Syrian dialect; excellent speaking and reading ability)
French (intermediate speaking and reading ability)
German (basic spoken ability)
Modern Hebrew (basic spoken ability)