About
I teach history at Florida State University. I studied at the Universities of Saskatchewan, Toronto, and Oxford before taking my doctorate in history at Princeton. My first book,
Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria, was published by Columbia University Press in 2017. In fall 2017, I am a Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study. While there, I am working on a variety of digital projects, including an NEH-funded
names database, an
undergraduate historical newspaper encoding project, a
digital gazetteer of the Ottoman empire, and lessons on linked open databases and ontologies for the
Programming Historian.
Education
PhD History, Princeton, 2007. Mastodon Feed
Football (soccer) clip art, 1907. #DigitalEgyptianGazette Does anyone remember the hockey store in Arkadia Mall? Was it just my imagination? (2024-05-31 ↗)
I have become the guy who only manages to shave 95% of his face. I used to wonder how that guy could be so sloppy. Now I know: profoundly not caring. (2024-04-25 ↗)
Anti-anti-semites of convenience leap onto the stage: "In the field of opportunity it's harvest time again." (2024-04-24 ↗)
Haven't heard anyone use "Islamo-fascism" recently. Most evanescent existential threat ever? (2024-04-24 ↗)
Reminder: there exists an *actually useful* definition of #antisemitism for academic purposes: https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/ (2024-04-23 ↗)
Memberships
American Historical Association
Middle East Studies Association
American Society for Legal History
Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association
