Faculty

Elizabeth B. Frierson, Ph.D.           
Associate Professor
Fields: modern Ottoman history, modern Middle East, intellectual history, history of journalism, gender history, war and atrocity studies, history of memory, cities, and identity construction, history of consumption
Phone:  513-556-0919           
Email:  frierseb@email.uc.edu
Office: 301C McMicken Hall

Professor Frierson came to the study of the Middle East and North Africa after beginning to see the wide gap between reality in the Middle East and U.S. perceptions of the region in the early 1980's. She took her B.A. in Comparative Religion from the University of Vermont and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. She has published several articles on late-Ottoman politics and society, co-edited with Camron Amin and Benjamin C. Fortna The Modern Middle East: A Sourcebook for History (Oxford University Press), and is finishing a manuscript entitled Patriarchal Feminism for Syracuse University Press. She has received several fellowships and awards for research, development of teaching materials, and acquisition of library materials for UC, and has been an invited speaker and workshop participant in the U.S., Turkey, Israel, and Europe, as well as a visiting fellow at Cornell University, UCSB, and Princeton University. She speaks frequently to community groups and the media about the history of the Middle East and North Africa, and current events. Her current research focuses on popular culture, cities, atrocities, memory, and identity formation.

Selected Courses
History of the Middle East and North Africa in 3 quarters:  600-1258 c.e,, 1258-1850, 1850 to the present
War and Peace in the Modern Middle East
Identity Formation in the Modern Middle East
Atrocities and Memory in the Modern Middle East (graduate)
Comparative Studies in Modern European and Middle Eastern Cities (graduate)
History of Media in the Modern Middle East
History of Film in the Modern Middle East

Selected Publications
Camron Amin, Benjamin C. Fortna, and Elizabeth B. Frierson, Editors. The Modern Middle East:  A Sourcebook for History (Oxford University Press, 2006)

“Women in Ottoman Intellectual History” in Late Ottoman Society: The Intellectual Heritage, edited by Elisabeth Özdalga (Curzon, 2005)

“Patriots shop:  Print culture, patriotism, and consumer values in the late-Ottoman empire”, in Dale Eickelman and Armando Salvatore, Editors, Public Islam and the Common Good (Brill, 2005)