History
Julia Shatz
Assistant Professor
Office: Social Science 126
Email: jshatz@csufresno.edu
Office Phone: 559-278-8815
Education:
Ph.D - University of California, Berkeley (2018)
M.A. - University of California, Berkeley
B.A. - Vassar College
Fall 2024
| Course | Days/Times |
|---|---|
| HIST 13 - Empires of the Middle East | MWF 10:00 - 10:50 am |
| HIST 100W - Intro to Historical Writing | MW 2:00 - 3:15 pm |
| HIST 109T - Israel and Palestine | MWF 11:00 - 11:50 am |
| HIST 200A - Introduction to Graduate Writing and Historiography | M 6:00 - 8:50 pm |
Spring 2025
| Course | Days/Times |
|---|---|
| HIST 21 - World History II | MWF 10:00 - 10:50 am |
| HIST 21 - World History II | MWF 11:00 - 11:50 am |
| HIST 114 - Gender, Sex, and Family in the Middle East | TTH 12:30 - 1:45 pm |
- Modern Middle East
- British Empire/History of Colonialism
- Transnational History
- History of Childhood/child welfare
- Global Humanitarianism
Articles and Book Chapters:
“A Politics of Care: Local Nurses in Mandate Palestine,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 50 (2018): 1-21.
“Governing Jerusalem’s Children, Revealing Invisible Inhabitants: The American Colony Aid Association, 1920s-1950s,” in Ordinary Jerusalem 1840-1940, ed. Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire, Leiden: Brill, 2018.
Undergraduate:
- Modern Middle East
- Special Topics in Middle East History
- World History to 1500
- World History from 1500
Graduate:
- Creating the Global South
- Britain and the World
My current research project examines child welfare and humanitarian governance in
interwar Palestine. A related research project will look at the role of American capital
and corporate philanthropy in social welfare initiatives in Palestine and the Middle
East in the 1920s-1940s.