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Williams, Elizabeth

Assistant Professor
University of Massachusetts Lowell

DISCIPLINE
History
SUB AREAS
19th-21st Centuries   
Colonialism   
Nationalism   
Ottoman Studies   
Environment   
Gender/Women's Studies   
AREAS OF INTEREST
Palestine   
Lebanon   
Syria   
Ottoman Empire   
All Middle East   
SPECIALTIES
Economic History/Development   
Agriculture/Environ Hist of Ottoman Empire/Levant   
French and British Colonialism in the ME/Postcolon   
LANGUAGES
Arabic (Fluent)   
French (Advanced)   
Turkish (Advanced)   
Ottoman (Advanced)   
Persian (Elementary)   
EDUCATION
PhD2015HistoryGeorgetown University
MA2007Near Eastern StudiesNew York University
BA2000Religious Studies & EnglishCollege of William & Mary
ABSTRACTS ACCEPTED AT MESA MEETINGS SINCE 2009
The Technology of Fields: The Politics of Agricultural “Science” in Late Ottoman and French Mandate Syria (2017)   
The Agricultural Bank: From Ottoman Institution to French Mandate Crisis in Syria (2015)   
From World Exposition to Tractor Competition: Ottoman technocrats’ participation in the emergence of scientific agriculture (2014)   
Ottoman Constitutional Reform and Agricultural Change: The Travails of a post-1908 Vali (2013)   
Cultivating Land, Negotiating Change: The History of an Ottoman Agricultural School (2012)   
Contesting Cotton: The Production of Agricultural Space in French Mandate Syria (2011)   
The Politics of Agricultural Education in the Late Ottoman Empire (2010)   
The Discourse and Technologies of Agrarian Reform in Mandate Syria (2009)   

Elizabeth Williams






Department of History--Dugan Hall 106
883 Broadway St.
Lowell, MA
01854
United States
erw28@georgetown.edu