Will started following the work of Nate Holdren, University of Minnesota, History.
Will I'm in Istanbul for the month of May.
Will started following the work of Angelos Ntalachanis, Paris Est Marne la Vallée University, History.
Will
A blog post for the AHA: http://blog.historians.org/arc
Faculty Member, Department of History
Assistant Professor
About
I studied at the Universities of Saskatchewan (history and geography), Toronto (history), Jordan (Arabic), and Oxford (Middle East studies and study of religion) before taking my doctorate in history at Princeton.
I am working on a book about the emergence of nationality as a social and legal category in Alexandria (Egypt) between 1880 and 1914. My aim is to understand how and when ordinary people began to identify themselves as Egyptians, Ottomans, foreigners, and the like. This research is based on documents produced by the city's police and its European consular courts.
I'm also working on a companion project: an institutional history of justice in Egypt between 1875 and 1950. I'm interested in creating a guide that will help historians to navigate this complex landscape, and to offer scholars of legal pluralism a thorough introduction to a key historical example of the phenomenon.
I am developing a digital humanities tool called Prosop, for which I received an NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant. I am an administrator of the American Historical Association's ArchivesWiki.
My next project is a study of Western conversion to Islam between 1850 and 1950, in which I aim to understand what kinds of Islam the converts discovered (and made) for themselves.
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