Louis Fishman

  Asst Professor
  Department: History
  Location: 520 Whitehead Hall
  Phone: 718-951-5000 x1165
  Fax: 718-951-4504

  Email:

University of Haifa, BA, 1995.
University of Chicago, MA, 1999.
University of Chicago, PhD, 2007.

Education:
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO - 2007 (Middle East History)

M.A., University of Chicago - 1999 (Middle East History)

B.A., University of Haifa - 1995 (Middle East History)

Areas of Expertise:
I work on questions dealing with Palestinian and Israeli history during the late Ottoman period, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, modern Turkey, and late Ottoman history. I also have interests in construction of nationalism, state-building, and historical narratives.

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
Participated in a conference on Modern Turkey, sponsored by NYMAS, and held at CUNY graduate center. I presented two lectures: one on late Ottoman history and the other entitled :Civil Society in Turkey. Lastly, I took part in a round table discussion on US-Turkey relations; March 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008

I presented a talk entitled "Zionism: the Debate in Istanbul, 1911" at Columbia's Ottoman Seminar program; October 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007

Participated in roundtable discussion on Ottoman Palestine; MIddle East Studies Association annual Conference, November 2007, Montreal Canada. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

Other Professional Activities
I organized a 4-day seminar in Istanbul, Turkey. This was for Carleton College's Middle East Mosaics Program and was entitled "Beneath the Surface: Learning About the Other in Istanbul." In addition to presenting two lectures on Modern Turkey, I organized meetings with different NGOs which provided the students to explore questions of "otherness," in Turkey; February 2008, Istanbul, Turkey. 2008