天美传媒

Education 

• Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, 2009
• M.A., Durham University, 2004
• B.A., Gordon College, 2002

Publications 

• 鈥淔rom George Tom in Cleveland, Ohio, to His Father Tannous Gergis, Mt. Lebanon, Syria:  Remittances as Transnational Relief During World War One.鈥� In edited by Rob McCormick, Araceli Hern谩ndez-Laroche and Catherine Canino, (London: Routledge, 2021)
• 鈥淲omen and Christianity in the Middle East.鈥� In edited by Mitri Raheb and Mark A. Lamport, 398-413. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021)
• Journal of Mediterranean Studies 27, no. 2 (2018), 133-148.
• 鈥淔rom Foreign soil to the 示Ard of Beirut: A history of the American University of Beirut and the Anglo-American Cemetery鈥�, Nadia El Cheikh, Leila Choueiri and Bilal Orafli, eds., (Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 2016), 189-200.
• Entangled Education: Foreign, National and Local schools in Ottoman Syria and Mandate Lebanon (19th-20th Centuries), Beiruter Texte und Studien 137: Herausgegeben vom Orient-Institute Beirut (Beirut: Ergon Verlag W眉rzburg in Kommission, 2016). Co-edited with Julia Hauser and Esther M枚ller.
• 鈥淩ahil Ata al-Bustani: Wife and Mother of the Nahda,鈥� in: Adel Beshara, ed., Butrus al-Bustani: Spirit of the Age (Melbourne: IPHOENIX Publishing, 2014): 49-67.  
• 鈥淭he Flexibility of Home: Investigating the Spaces and Definitions for the Home and Family Employed by the ABCFM Missionaries in Ottoman Syria from 1823 to 1860,鈥� in: Mehmet A. Dogan and Heather Sharkey, eds. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2011): 33-62.
• 鈥湷�,鈥� NEST Theological Review, 32, no. 2 (2011): 71-96.
• 鈥溾�業n this religion I will live, and in this religion I will die鈥�: Performativity and the Protestant Identity in Late Ottoman Syria,鈥� Chronos 22 (2010): 22-48.
• Mission & Social Sciences 23, no. 1 (2010): 7-31.

Digital Publications and Podcasts  

• 鈥�,鈥� 90 Second narratives, season 3, ep 8. Podcast episode. (5 October 2020)
• Presbyterian Historical Society Blog (31 May 2016).
• with Ellen Fleischmann, hosted by Susanna Ferguson, Ottoman History Podcast (12 March 2016)
• Anglo-American Cemetery Website (14 July 2015)
• Anglo-American Cemetery Website (11 May 2015).
• " AMEWS E-Bulletin 1 (January 2014): 1-3
• digital exhibition, Preserving Protestant Heritage in the Middle East Website, (21 October 2013)
•   NEST Library blog (9 July 2013).

Courses Taught  

• World Civilizations I
• Understanding Global History
• Survey of World Religions
• Global History of Islam to 1800
• Modern Middle East
• Honors Seminar in World History I
• Introduction to the Study of Religions            

Research Interests 

• Middle East History;
• Ottoman History;
• Lebanon and Syria;
• Protestantism in the Middle East;
• Christianity in the Middle East;
• Women鈥檚 History;
• Historic Cemeteries;
• Digital History