2017 Workshop
Beshara Doumani
Joukowsky Family Professor of Modern Middle East History, Brown University
Director of Middle East Studies, Brown University
Beshara Doumani is the Joukowsky Family Professor of Modern Middle East History and director of Middle East Studies at Brown University. He works on the social, economic, and legal history of Eastern Mediterranean.
Doumani is also a public intellectual who writes on current events in the Middle East, on the ethics of knowledge production, and on the relationship between culture and politics. He led a team that produced a strategic plan for the establishment of a Palestinian museum, and recently received the Sawyer Seminar award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for his proposal, “Displacement and the Making of the Modern World: Histories, Ecologies, and Subjectivities.”
He received his PhD from Georgetown University, and was first tenured at the University of Pennsylvania. Doumani was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.