James L. Gelvin
James L. Gelvin is an American scholar of Middle Eastern history. He has been a faculty member in the department of history at the University of California, Los Angeles since 1995 and has written extensively on the history of the modern Middle East, with particular emphasis on nationalism and the social and cultural history of the modern Middle East.
Biography
Gelvin earned his B.A. from Columbia University in 1983, M.A. from the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University in 1985, and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1992.Before joining the faculty at UCLA, Gelvin taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston College, and Harvard University.
He has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the recipient of a U.C. President’s Fellowship in the Humanities. In 2002-3, he was Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Visiting Professor of History at the American University in Beirut.
Awards
In 2015, the Middle East Studies Association honored Gelvin with its Undergraduate Teaching Award, citing his “outstanding commitment to the practice and substance of undergraduate teaching, through his classroom performance, his training of future generations of undergraduate teachers, and his well-received undergraduate textbooks....James Gelvin’s accomplishments as a teacher and the teaching materials he has produced for others exemplify the kind of undergraduate teacher this award is meant to recognize." Gelvin also received the Faculty Excellence Award, presented by the UCLA chapter of Mortar Board National Senior Honor Society in 1998.Works by Gelvin
Books- The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know.
- Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print, 1850-1930.
- The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know.
- Israel Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War.
- The Modern Middle East: A History.
- Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire.
- “The Arab Uprisings: Lessons to be Learned,” Forum: “Arab Springs,” Il Mestiere di Storico 5:1.
- “‘Modernity,’ ‘Tradition,’ and the Battleground of Gender in Early Twentieth-Century Damascus,” Die Welt Des Islams.
- “‘Coup-Proof?” History Today.
- “Nationalism, Anarchism, Reform: Understanding Political Islam from the Inside Out,” Middle East Policy XVII, 3.
- “‘Arab Nationalism’ Meets Social Theory,” “Pensée: ‘Arab Nationalism’: Has a New Framework Emerged?," International Journal of Middle East Studies 41.
- “Al-Qaeda and Anarchism: A Historian’s Reply to Terrorology,” and “Al-Qaeda and Anarchism: A Historian’s Reply to Terrology: Response to Commentaries,” Terrorism and Political Violence 20:4.
- “The Politics of Notables Forty Years After,” Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 40:1.
- “Globalization, Religion, and Politics in the Middle East: The Current Crisis in Historical Perspective,” Global Development Studies.
- “Islamism and Nationalism: Common Roots, Common Destinies,” Beiruter Blaetter: Mitteilungen des Orient-Institutes Beirut, 10-11.
- “Zionism and the Representation of ‘Jewish Palestine’ at the New York World’s Fair, 1939-1940” The International History Review XXII:1.
- "Modernity and Its Discontents: On the Durability of Nationalism in the Arab Middle East," Nations and Nationalism 5:1.
- "The League of Nations and the Question of National Identity in the Fertile Crescent," in World Affairs.
- "The Social Origins of Popular Nationalism in Syria: Evidence for a New Framework," in International Journal of Middle East Studies.
- "Demonstrating Communities in Post-Ottoman Syria," in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History XXV:I.
- “The Arab Uprisings of 2010-11,” in David Motadel, Revolution in Modern World History.“The Arab Uprisings of 2010-11,” in David Motadel, Global Revolution.
- "Comprendiendo las insurrecciones árabes," in G. Conde et al., Mundo árabe: Levantamientos populares, contextos, crisis y reconfiguraciones.
- “Was There a Mandates Period? Some Concluding Thoughts,” in Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates.
- “Reassessing the Recent History of Political Islam in Light of the Arab Uprisings,” in Fahed Al-Sumait et al., Conceptualizing the Arab Uprisings: Origins, Dynamics, and Trajectories.
- “The Arab World at the Intersection of the Transnational and National,” in David W. Lesch and Mark Haas, The Arab Spring: Change and Resistance in the Middle East
- “American Global Economic Policy and the Civic Order in the Middle East,” Michael Bonine et al., Is There a Middle East?.
- “The Middle East Breasted Discovered,” in Geoff Emberling and John Larson, Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-20.
- “Resolution of the Syrian General Congress—1919,” in Neil Schlager, Milestone Documents in World History.
- “Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc?: Reassessing the Lineages of Nationalism in Bilad al-Sham,” in Thomas Philipp and Christoph Schumann, From the Syrian Land to the State of Syria.
- “T.E. Lawrence and Historical Representation,” in Charles Stang, The Waking Dream of T.E. Lawrence: Essays on His Life, Literature, and Legacy.
- “Secularism and Religion in the Arab Middle East: Reinventing Islam in a World of Nation States,” in Derek R. Peterson and Darren Walhof, The Invention of Religion: Rethinking Belief and Politics in History.
- “Developmentalism, Revolution, and Freedom in the Arab Middle East: The Cases of Egypt, Syria, and Iraq,” in Robert H. Taylor, The Idea of Freedom in Asia and Africa.
- "Presenting Nations: Demonstrations and Nationalisms in Pre-Mandate Syria," in F. Moge Gocek, Social Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle East.
- “Napoleon in Egypt as History and Polemic,” in Irene Bierman, Napoleon in Egypt.
- “The Other Arab Nationalism: Syrian/Arab Populism in Its Historical and International Contexts" in James Jankowski and Israel Gershoni, Rethinking Nationalisms in the Arab World.
- "The Ironic Legacy of the King-Crane Commission," in David W. Lesch, The United States in the Middle East: A Historical Reassessment.
- “Palestine, Zionism, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” 24-part lecture series, The Teaching Company, 2002. According to the author's UCLA homepage this is now officially distributed as a