People: Core Faculty

Kevin W. Martin

• Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern
  Languages and Cultures
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History
• Curriculum Vitae

Education

• PhD, Georgetown University, 2005 (History of the Middle East and North Africa)
• MA, Georgetown University, 2000 (Arab Studies)

Research Interests

• Modern Middle East
• Modern Levant (Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq)
• Cultural history of the Modern Arab world

Contact Information

Email: km66@indiana.edu
Office: Goodbody Hall 241
Phone: (812) 856-6861

Courses Recently Taught

• Theory and Method in Middle East Historiography
• Middle East History Through Literature and Film
• The Cultural History of the Middle East
• The Making of the Modern Middle East
• Iraq and Syria in the Twentieth Century

Publication Highlights

• "Presenting the ‘True Face of Syria’ to the World: Urban Disorder and Civilizational Anxieties at the First Damascus International Exposition." International Journal of Middle East Studies, 42, no. 3 (2010), 391–411.
• "Peasants into Syrians." International Journal of Middle East Studies. Feb 2009, 41 (1), 4–6.