Graduate Student Directory

Kristine Swarts-Zanin
  • Title
    • PhD Student
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • History Department
  • Affiliations Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA), Jewish Studies
  • Email
  • Office Location
    • Humanities Building 1, 1
  • Mail Stop Humanities Academic Services

Summary of Expertise

Teaching Assistant Experience

HIS 4-1: The Making of the Modern Middle East

HIS 5: Introduction to the Bible

HIS-10A-01: United States History to 1877

HIS 13-01: Introduction to American Religious Culture

HIS 58: From Pirates to Refugees: The History of the Modern Mediterranean

HIS 74A: Introduction to Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History: Ancient to Early Modern

HIS 74-1: Introduction to Jewish History and Cultures

HIS-139L-01: A More Perfect Union

Research Interests

Middle Eastern History, Modern Middle East and North Africa, Religious Studies, Jewish History

Biography, Education and Training

Education:

M.A., History, University of California, Santa Cruz (2024)
M.A., Middle Eastern Studies, Cum Laude, Leiden University (2017)
B.A., Global Studies, History, Carnegie Mellon University (2015)

Selected Publications

“The Responsibility for the Safety of the Fabric [of the Basilica]”: British Construction in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Status Quo Policy, 1927–1948" Nexus. The Haifa Laboratory for Religous Studies. 12 September 2024. 

Selected Presentations

“The Responsibility for the Safety of the Fabric [of the Basilica]”: British Construction in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Status Quo Policy, 1927–1948" Presentation at Middle East Studies Association. 11-16 November 2024.