Shira Robinson

Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs

Phillips 330
801 22nd Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-2457
Fax: (202) 994-6231
E-mail: snrobins@gwu.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Stanford University

Expertise:

History of the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries; colonialism, nationalism, and citizenship in the Arab Middle East; the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Background:

Shira Robinson joined GW in 2007 after two years of teaching at the University of Iowa and one year as Visiting Fellow at the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University. She received her B.A. in Middle Eastern and North African Studies from the University of Michigan and her M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Stanford University.

Professor Robinson works on the social and cultural history of the Modern Middle East, with an emphasis on colonialism, citizenship, nationalism, and cultures of militarism after World War I. She is currently revising her manuscript, Liberal Dispossession: Palestinian Citizenship under Military Rule, 1948-1967, which examines the Israeli state's imposition of military rule on the Palestinian Arabs who remained within its borders after 1948. Her publications include "Local Struggle, National Struggle: Palestinian Responses to the Kafr Qasim Massacre and its Aftermath, 1956-1966," which appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies in August 2003.

Professor Robinson's research has been funded through the Fulbright Institute, the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, and the Palestinian American Research Center. She also spent a year at the Center for the Advanced Study of Arabic at the American University in Cairo. In 2006 her dissertation won the Halpern Biennial Dissertation Award from the Association for Israel Studies.

Courses Taught:

Hist 194 The Middle East in the 20th Century
Hist 297 Graduate Readings in Modern Middle Eastern History