George Mason University, 2009-Present              (Graduate Student in History)

Graduate student in the Department of History, on Path I: Pre-doctoral History (with concentration in World History).

Hebrew University, 2005-2006                 (Graduate Student in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies)

Graduate student at Rothberg International School. One year of Master’s courses in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.

English, Arabic, French, Spanish

• The Ancient and Modern Near East
• Syro-Palestinian archaeology
  
  
• The Roman and Byzantine Empires in the Levant
  
  
• Islamic history and the pre-Islamic Arabian Penninsula (Al-Jahiliya)
  
  
• Early Christian history
• Jewish history
• Identity, Memory, and Nationalism

“Remembering Israel, Forgetting Palestine: Archaeology, Identity, and the Politics of Historic Memory” (2009)

“Judging History, Discovering the Past, and Telling the Tale: Power, Politics, and the Changing Role of the Historian in the Twentieth Century” (2009)

“Stealing the Holocaust: The Uniqueness Debate and the Battle for Holocaust Memory” (2009)

“Memories of a Failing State: Collective Memory and the Making of Sectarian Conflict in Yemen” (2009)

“Textual Traditions of the Battle of Uhud and the Formation of the Early Islamic State” (2006)