Michael provence biography

Michael Provence teaches modern Middle East history, focusing on the 20th century Arab East.
He earned a PhD in Modern Middle Eastern History from the University of Chicago under the direction of Rashid Khalidi in 2001.
Michael Provence is a professor of history who specializes in topics dealing with the colonial and postcolonial Arab world, particularly populist revolts.

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Provence, Michael 1966-

PERSONAL:

Born August 8, 1966. Education:University of Chicago, Ph.D., 2001.

ADDRESSES:

Office—University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., #0104, La Jolla, CA 92093-0104. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Writer, educator. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, assistant professor, 2001-04; University of California, San Diego, assistant professor, 2004-07, associate professor, 2007—.

WRITINGS:

The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism, University of Texas Press (Austin, TX), 2005.

Contributor of articles to scholarly books and journals, and to periodicals, including the San Diego Union and the Dallas Morning News.

SIDELIGHTS:

Michael Provence is a professor of history who specializes in topics dealing with the colonial and postcolonial Arab world, particularly populist revolts, insurgency, and nationalism between World War I and World War II. In his first book, The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism, Provence, according to History reviewer James F. Chastain, "draws on previously

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Curriculum Vitae

Michael Provence teaches modern Middle East history, focusing on the 20th century Arab East. He received the B.A in History from U.C. Berkeley in 1994 and the Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2001. During 2017-2018 he was Chercheur Résident (Research Fellow in Residence), Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Nantes, France. In 2010-11 and 2014 Provence was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin, Germany. In 2024-25 he is a visiting professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

He is the author of two books and many articles. The books are The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism (2005). and The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East (2017). Both available in Arabic and Turkish.

Provence lived and studied over the course of many years in several Middle Eastern countries, particularly Syria and Lebanon between 1998 and 2006. He returns as often as possible.

Recent Publications

Books
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PROVENCE, Michael. The Last Ottoman Generation and the making of the Modern Middle East, forthcoming 2017, Cambridge University Press.
PROVENCE, Michael. The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism, University of Texas Press, Modern Middle East Series, No. 22, 2005.
PROVENCE, Michael. “The Levant Mandates,” in the Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle East and North African History edited by Jens Hanssen and Amal Ghazal, Oxford University Press 2016. UK.
PROVENCE, Michael. "Legitimidad y discurso entre el Estado y la revolución en Siria,” in Mundo árabe: levantamientos populares, contextos, crisis y reconfiguraciones, Gilberto Conde, Camila Pastor and Marta Tawil (eds.) México: El Colegio de México and CIDE (2016), (in Spanish). ,Mexico.
PROVENCE, Michael. “French Mandate Counterinsurgency and the Repression of the Great Syrian Revolt,” in The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates, edited by Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan, 2015. UK.