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Caroline Kahlenberg

Assistant Professor

NAU 182
Office Hours: T/Th, 2:00-4:00PM

Field & Specialties

Middle East History
Jewish History
Palestine/Israel
Gender & Sexuality
Material Culture
Sephardic/Mizrahi History
Migration & Diaspora

Education

Ph.D., History and Middle East Studies - Harvard University 

B.A., History - Middlebury College

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

“The Girl with a Bomb in Her Basket: Age, Race, and Jewish Terror on Trial in British-Mandate Palestine” (Jewish Social Studies, 2024) 

“The Predicament of a Palestinian Hebraist, 1912-1979,” Jewish Quarterly Review 114:1 (Winter 2024): 141-177. 

“How the Locals Grew an Accent: The Sounds of Modern Hebrew in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine,” Jewish Social Studies 28:3 (Fall 2023), 105-142. 

“Peddlers and the Policing of National Indifference in Palestine, 1920-1948,” History Workshop Journal 90 (2020), 115-141.

“New Arab Maids: Domestic Work, ‘New Arab Women,’ and National Memory in British Mandate Palestine,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 53:2 (2020), 449-467. 

“The Star of David in a Cedar Tree: Jewish Students and Zionism at the American University of Beirut (1908-1948),” Middle Eastern Studies 55:4 (Feb. 2019), 570-589.

“The Tarbush Transformation: Oriental Jewish Men and the Significance of Headgear in Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine,” Journal of Social History 52:4 (Summer 2019) 1212-1249.

“‘The Gospel of Health’: American Missionaries and the Transformation of Ottoman/Turkish Women’s Bodies, 1890-1932,” Gender & History 28:1 (April 2016), 150-176.

Courses Taught

HIEU3501: Modern Jewish History Through Literature and Film

HIEU2101: Ancient and Medieval Jewish History

HIEU2102: Modern Jewish History

HIME2010: Modern History of Palestine/Israel

HIME1501: Israel/Palestine Through Literature and Film

HIST1501: Jews & Humor

HIME2002: The Making of the Modern Middle Eastern 

HIME2012: Israel/Palestine 1948

HIME4501: Remembering Palestine/Israel: History, Memory, Method