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Jonathan Miran <Jonathan.Miran@wwu.edu> Western Washington University |
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List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-Horn |
Interests: | African History / Studies Islamic History / Studies Middle East History / Studies World History / Studies |
Bio: Education PhD, African History, Michigan State University MA, African Studies, INALCO, Paris BA, Amharic and African Studies, INALCO , Paris Position Associate Professor of Islamic and African History Department of Liberal Studies Western Washington University 516 High Street Bellingham, WA 98225-9064 USA Select Publications Red Sea Citizens: Cosmopolitan Society and Cultural Change in Massawa (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009) "Mapping Space and Mobility in the Red Sea Region, c.1500-1950", History Compass (forthcoming) "From Bondage to Freedom on the Red Sea Coast: Manumitted Slaves in Egyptian Massawa, 1873-1885," Slavery & Abolition 34 (1) 2013: 135-157. Guest Editor, 'Space, Mobility and Translocal Connections across the Red Sea Area since 1500'. Special Issue of Northeast African Studies 12 (1) 2012. "Guest Editor's Introduction", Northeast African Studies 12 (1) 2012: ix-xxvi. "Red Sea Translocals: Hadrami Migration, Entrepreneurship, and Strategies of Integration in Eritrea, 1840s-1970s," Northeast African Studies 12 (1) 2012: 129-168. “Constructing and deconstructing the Tigre frontier space in the long nineteenth century.” In Gianfrancesco Lusini, ed., History and Language of the Tigre-Speaking Peoples. Proceedings of the International Workshop, Naples, February 7-8, 2008, «Studi Africanistici. Serie Etiopica 8 »(Napoli:Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”, 2010): 33-50. “Endowing Property and Edifying Power in a Red Sea Port: Waqf, Arab Migrant Entrepreneurs, and Urban Authority in Massawa, 1860s-1880s,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 42(2) 2009: 151-178. “Power without Pashas: the anatomy of Na’ib autonomy in Ottoman Eritrea (17th-19th c.),” Eritrean Studies Review 5 (1) 2007: 33-88 (special issue on pre-colonial Eritrea edited by Bairu Tafla). “A historical overview of Islam in Eritrea,” Die Welt des Islams 45 (2) 2005, pp. 177-215. [Reprinted in Andrew Rippin (ed.), World Islam: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies, Volume III. (London and New York: Routledge, 2008),195-224]. “The Islamic and related writings of Eritrea,” In R. S. O’Fahey and J. O. Hunwick (eds.), Arabic Literature of Africa, Volume 13, III, Fascicle A. The Writings of the Muslim Peoples of Northeastern Africa (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003): 1-17. (with R. S. O’Fahey) “Grand mufti, érudit et nationaliste érythréen: note sur la vie et l’oeuvre de cheikh Ibrâhîm al-Mukhtâr (1909-1969),” Chroniques Yéménites 10 (2002): 35-47. “Missionaries, education, and the state in the Italian colony of Eritrea,” In Holger Bernt Hansen and Michael Twaddle (eds.), Christian Missionaries and the State in the Third World (Oxford and Athens, OH: James Currey and Ohio University Press, 2002): 121-135. Reference works: entries in the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica (Harrassowitz), Dictionary of African Biography (Oxford UP), and the Encyclopedia of Islam. Third Edition (Brill). Other Area Editor, (Ethiopia and Eritrea), Dictionary of African Biography (Oxford University Press). 2009-2011. Field Specialist, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. 2000-2012 (+ contributed more than 40 entries). Advisory Board, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. 2010. Editorial Board, Arabian Humanities. 2012-present. Editorial Board, Pount. Cahiers d'Etudes sur la Corne de l'Afrique et l'Arabie du Sud. 2007-present. Editorial Board, Northeast African Studies. 2013-present. |