Participant Info
- First Name
- Kara A.
- Last Name
- Peruccio
- Country
- United States
- State
- ME Maine
- kara.peruccio@maine.edu
- Affiliation
- University of Maine
- Website URL
- https://umaine.edu/history/people/kara-a-peruccio/
- Keywords
- Mediterranean, gender history, Modern Middle East, authoritarianism, suffrage, women's movements, cultural history, Fascist Italy, Kemalist Turkey
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Kara is a historian of the modern Middle East and Mediterranean. Her teaching and research interests include women’s movements, modern Middle Eastern History, the 20th-century Mediterranean, and cultural history.
At Maine, Kara holds a joint appointment in the Department of History and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.
She received her PhD from the University of Chicago’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in August 2020. She holds an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago Center for Middle Eastern Studies and a BA with Honors in History from Wake Forest University,, where she also minored in Italian and Women’s and Gender Studies. Kara held a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Uşak, Turkey from 2011-12.
In 2020-21, Kara was a Humanities Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago, where she taught courses on the Ottoman Empire and Women’s Movements in the Modern Middle East.
- Recent Publications
“Bad Romance: Toxic Masculinity, Love, and Heartbreak in Interwar Italian and Turkish Women’s Novels, 1923-32,” Journal of Women’s History 33, no. 2 (2021): 35-60. DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2021.0014.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @anMheanmhuir
- Country Focus
- Italy, Turkey
- Expertise by Geography
- Mediterranean, Middle East
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Family, Gender, Literary History, Sexuality, Women, World War I
