Faculty Member, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Assistant Professor
About
I recently joined the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Balamand. I will be teaching foundational courses: CVSQ 201 (Early Formation of Civilisations) and CVSQ 202 (The Religious Experience).
In addition to teaching, I am continuing my research on American Protestant missionaries in Ottoman Syria during the early to mid-nineteenth century and the development of a Protestant community in Ottoman Syria.I am interested in the way that women, both American and Syrian, performed, negotiated and subverted their gendered identity.My current research projects focus upon these women's relationship with biography and autobiography-specifically-the creation of role models through evangelical memoirs and fictional works.
I am more generally interested in the ways that American women engage with Arab women, both tangibly and discursively, in order to define their own identity. This includes both historical and present day negotiations of identity.
Contact Information
(+961) 6 930 0250 ext. 2270
