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  Jennifer L. Derr

Jennifer L. Derr

Associate Professor; Founding Director, Center for the Middle East and North Africa at UC Santa Cruz

831-459-3602 (office)

 

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Humanities Division

History Department

Associate Professor; Founding Director, Center for the Middle East and North Africa at UC Santa Cruz

Faculty

Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA)
Science & Justice Research Center

Regular Faculty

Disease and Immunity
Science Studies
Environmental Studies
Biomedical Sciences
Capitalism
Colonialism
History
Water

Humanities Building 1
529

Winter 2024: Tuesdays, 1-2 pm in Humanities 529 or by appt. (via zoom)

Humanities Academic Services

Education

B.S. in Biological Sciences, Stanford University

M.A. in Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University

Ph.D. in History, Stanford University

Colonial and Post-colonial Middle Eastern history; environmental history; history of science; history of medicine; critical geography

Principal Investigator, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on "Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine," 2021-2023

National Science Foundation CAREER Award, "History of Science at the Interface of Biomedical and Environmental Concerns," 2019-2024 

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Department III, Working Group “Art of Judgment,” Visiting Scholar, January 2019 – July 2019 

UCHRI Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop Award, 2016-2017

National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend Award Winner, 2016

Hellman Fellow, 2015-2016

Social Science Research Council Book Fellowship, 2012

Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows in British Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009-2010

 

“The Dammed Body: Thinking Historically about Water Security and Public Health.” Dædalus: A Publication of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 150, no. 4 (Fall 2021): 143-158. https://doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_01877.

“Approaching the History of an Egyptian Biomedicine.” History Compass 19, no. 6 (June 2021). https://doi-org.oca.ucsc.edu/10.1111/hic3.12656.

"Hepatitis C, COVID-19 and the Egyptian Regime’s Approach to Health Care." Middle East Report: Health and the Body Politic" 297 (Winter 2020).

The Lived Nile: Environment, disease, and material colonial economy in Egypt. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019.

“Labor-time: Ecological bodies and agricultural labor in 19th and early 20th-century Egypt.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 50 no. 2 (May 2018): 195-212.

 “The Dirty Subject of the First World War.” International Journal of Middle East Studies vol. 46 no. 4 (November 2014): 781-783.

 “A Draft of the Colony: Historical Imagination and the Production of Agricultural Geography in British-Occupied Egypt.” In Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Edmund Burke III and Diana K. Davis, 136-157. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011.

 “Regulation of p53 by Hypoxia: Dissociation of Transcriptional Repression and Apoptosis from p53-Dependent Transactivation.” (with Constantinos Koumenis, Rodolfo Alarcon, Ester Hammond, Patrick Sutphin, William Hoffman, Maureen Murphy, Yoichi Taya, Scott W. Lowe, Michael Kastan, and Amato Giaccia) Molecular and Cellular Biology, Vol. 21, No. 4 (February 2001): 1297-1310.

 

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HIS 41: The Making of the Modern Middle East
HIS 151A: Medicine and the Body in the Colonial World
HIS 156: Interrogating Politics in the Post-Colonial Middle East
HIS 156A: Art, Culture, and Mass Media in the Arab Middle East
HIS 157: The Ottoman Empire
HIS 194Q: Making Space in the Colonial and Post-Colonial World
HIS 194W: Social Movements in the Modern Middle East
HIS 260: History and the Spatial Turn: Making Space, Place, and Geography in History
HIS 261: The Contours of the New Middle East History

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