Annie Greene | Assistant Professor
Annie Greene
Assistant Professor
CTIHB 213
About
Dr. Annie Greene is Assistant Professor of modern Middle East history at the University of Utah. Her scholarship focuses on late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century cultural and intellectual production in the Ottoman Arab provinces in general, and in Iraq in particular. Her current book project examines multilingual press networks, neoclassical poetry, and Ottoman civic participation as part of the Nahda (Arab renaissance) in Iraq. She is also interested in gender histories of the Islamic world, print histories, and histories of nondominant religious communities.
Education
- BA, International Development Studies, McGill University
- MA, Near & Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS, University of London
- PhD, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, The University of Chicago
Research Focus
Cultural and intellectual production in the Ottoman Arab provinces; gender; nondominant religious communities in the Islamic world
Key Publications
“The Pioneers of Print in the Ottoman Province of Mosul,” Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World 14, no. 1-2 (2020): 51-68.
“Burying a Rabbi in Baghdad: The Limits of Ottomanism for Ottoman-Iraqi Jews in the Late Nineteenth Century,” Journal of Jewish Identities 12, no. 2 (July 2019): 97-123.
Teaching
HIST 3398 – 001: History of the Middle East, 1798-1914
HIST 4490 – 001: Gender & Middle East History
HIST 3400 – 001: History of the Middle East since 1914
HIST 4490 – 001: Jews of the Islamic World
HIST 3910 - 004: History of Israel/Palestine
HIST 4490 - 001: America & the Middle East
Awards
Visiting Research Fellowship, The University of Chicago, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, 2021-2022
Visiting Research Fellowship, The University of Pennsylvania, Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, 2018-2019
Research Fellowship, The Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TARII), 03/2016