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Contact Info: Department of History Tufts University East Hall Medford, MA 02155 617.627.6560 Email Prof. Fawaz Download CV

Biography

Leila Fawaz is Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies and Founding Director of the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Tufts University. Between 1996 and 2001, she was a Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Jackson College, and Associate Dean of the Faculty. Fawaz also served as chair of the Department History at Tufts University. She holds a dual appointment as Professor of Diplomacy at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Professor of History at Tufts University.

Fawaz has served as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America and of the Alumni Association in North America of the American University of Beirut. Her editorial posts have included editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES) and editorial board positions with the American Historical Review, IJMES, the British Middle East Studies Association Review, and others. She is a Carnegie Scholar, an Overseer at Harvard University, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Comité Scientifique of the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme at the Université de Provence. She is editor of a series at Columbia University Press, serves on the Advisory Board of the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, and chairs the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars Fulbright Review Committee. At various times, she served on committees of the Social Science Research Council, the Steering Committee of the European Science Foundation, and as delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies. She also was also Visiting Professor at the University of Provence.

Her research interests include the social and political history of the modern Middle East, including the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Her publications include Modernity and Culture: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean (co-editor, 2002); An Occasion for War: Ethnic Conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus in 1860 (1994); and Merchants and Migrants in Nineteenth-Century Beirut (1983). As Carnegie Scholar, Fawaz will work next on "The Experience of War: Muslims in the Middle East and South Asia, 1914-1920."

Education

• Ph.D. Harvard University, 1979
• A.M. Harvard University, 1972
• B.A. American University of Beirut, 1967

Major Publications

• (Co-editor) Modernity and Culture: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean (2002).
• An Occasion for War: Conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus in 1860 (1994).
• Merchants and Migrants in Nineteenth Century Beirut (1983).

Courses

• History 60: The Modern Middle East until World War I
• History 61: The Modern Middle East from World War I