• Africa 25%-49% • Asia 10%-24% • International 25%-49% • Middle East 50%-74% • Western Europe/European Union (EU) 10%-24%
Languages:
• Arabic, North Levantine (elementary proficiency) • French (professional proficiency) • Turkish, Modern (professional proficiency) • Turkish, Ottoman (professional proficiency)
Specialization:
Nationalism in the Middle East; Islamic civilization; Middle East history; economic and social history of the Ottoman Arab provinces.
Relevant Experience:
• Overseas experience in Africa (25-50%) and the Middle East (75%). Ongoing research focusing on the development of national identities in Syria, Turkey and Iraq.
Distinctions:
• 2010-2010 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship • 2008-2010 Co-Principal Investigator, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar • 2007-2007 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship • 2006-2007 National Humanities Center Fellowship • 2005-2005 Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching • 2005-2005 “Favorite Geek,” Triangle Independent
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
3
Relevant Courses Taught:
• HIST 062, First Year Seminar: Nations, Borders, and Identities; HIST 138, Introduction to Islamic Civilization; HIST 139, Later Islamic Civilization and the Modern Muslim World; HIST 202, Borders and Crossings; HIST 276, Modern Middle East; HIST 890, Graduate Seminar- Section Title: Diversity and Conformity in Muslim Societies.
Recent Publications:
• 2016 “Forced Migration as Nation-Building: The League of Nations, Minority Protection, and the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange,” Journal of the History of International Law 18 (2006), 120-145.
• 2016 Shields, Sarah. "Forced Migration as Nation-Building: The League of Nations, Minority Protection, and the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange." Journal of the History of International Law 18, no. 1 (2016): 120-145.
• 2014 "The Greek-Turkish Population Exchange: Internationally Administered Ethnic Cleansing," Middle East Report 267 (Summer 2013).
• 2011 Fezzes in the River: Identity Politics and European Diplomacy in the Middle East on the Eve of World War II (Oxford Univ. Press, 2011)
• 2009 Shields, Sarah, "National Geographic Countries of the World: Turkey," National Geographic Children's Books, (2009).
• 2009 “Mosul, the Ottoman Legacy, and the League of Nations,” International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 3:2 (2009), 217-30
• 2007 Shields, Sarah, “The US and the Sancak Question: Navigating a New Relationship in a Rapidly-Changing Context,” American-Turkish Relations (2007).
• 2007 Shields, Sarah, “Imperial Myopia, the Prequel: Great Britain, the Mosul Question, and the League of Nations,” Iran and Iraq Face the Future (2007).
• 2004 Shields, Sarah, “Mosul Questions: Economy, Identity and Annexation,” The Making of Modern Iraq, Reeva Simon (ed.), Columbia University Press (2004).
• 2001 Shields, Sarah, “Convivencia and Muslims,” Pacem, 4: 39-53
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