Doctor of Philosphy in History- Middle East in Providence United States | Brown University

Brown University's Middle East Studies program is experiencing significant growth across faculty, graduate students, pioneering research projects, and creative academic offerings. The primary expansion occurs within the History Department, which invites applications from graduate candidates seeking to produce ethically engaged, globally situated, and rigorously researched knowledge about this crucial region.

Our faculty expertise spans the social, cultural, legal, and economic histories of the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia from the early modern era through contemporary times (17th-20th centuries). Their scholarship utilizes both materialist and discursive methodologies to examine diverse historical themes including capitalist development and political economy, Islamic legal systems and social structures, family dynamics and gender transformations, imperial systems and nationalist movements, forced migrations and territorial divisions, constitutional developments and nation-building processes, as well as financial and energy histories during Ottoman rule, Mandate periods, and post-colonial transitions. Additional faculty in other Brown departments specialize in early Islamic history and the Mamluk era.