
Email: dyerjd@bc.edu
Curriculum Vitae: please click here
Education:
M.A. Arab Studies, Georgetown University
B.A. Middle Eastern Studies, U.C. Berkeley
Research Interests:
History of the early modern Persian Gulf; Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire; The Ottomans and British India in the Gulf; The position of the Arabian Peninsula in Indian Ocean networks; Gender, race, nationalism and hierarchies of power and identity; Modernization and the state in pre-colonial and colonial territories.
Publications:
“Desert Saints or Lions Without Teeth?: British Portrayals of Bedouin Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century Arabian Peninsula.” Arab Studies Journal. XVII:1 (Spring 2009): 85-97.
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