Participant Info
- First Name
- Laura
- Last Name
- Robson
- Country
- United States
- State
- OR Oregon
- lrobson@pdx.edu
- Affiliation
- Portland State University
- Website URL
- http://www.lauracrobson.com/
- Keywords
- Middle East, minorities, ethnicity and nationalism, empire, decolonization, mass violence, migration, refugees
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Laura Robson (PhD Yale, 2009) is a scholar of modern Middle Eastern and international history. Her work focuses on the politics of ethnicity and religion in the twentieth century Arab world; local, regional, and global reverberations of international governance and international law; and modern histories of mass violence.
She is currently Associate Professor of modern Middle Eastern history at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.
- Recent Publications
(Past 3 years – complete list available on request)
Books:
Partitions: A Transnational History of 20th Century Territorial Separatism (forthcoming Stanford University Press, 2019)States of Separation: Transfer, Partition, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (University of California Press, 2017)
Minorities and the Modern Arab World: New Perspectives (Syracuse University Press, 2016)
Articles:
“Refugees and the Case for International Authority in the Middle East: The League of Nations and UNRWA Compared,” special issue on “Forced Displacement and Refugees,” ed. Dawn Chatty, International Journal of Middle East Studies 49, 4 (2017): 625-644
“Memorialization and Assimilation: Armenian Genocide Memorials in North America,” special issue on “Being Middle Eastern in North America: Conceptions of Space and Identity,” ed. Jennifer Dueck, Mashriq & Mahjar 4, 1 (2017): 73-98
“Peripheries of Belonging: Military Recruitment and the Making of a Minority in Wartime Iraq, 1914-1919,” special issue on “The Middle East in the First World War,” ed. Andrew Patrick, First World War Studies 2 (2016): 1-20
“Refugee Camps and the Spatialization of Assyrian Nationalism in Iraq,” in Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East, ed. R. Goldstein-Sabbah and H.L. Murre-van den Berg (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 237-2
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq
- Expertise by Geography
- Mediterranean, Middle East
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Diplomacy, Genocide, Migration & Immigration, Politics, Religion
