Dr Roberto Mazza Assistant Professor History of the Late Ottoman Empire and the Modern Middle East Research Associate SOAS, University of London 715 Auburn Drive Macomb, IL 61455 robbymazza@googlemail.com rm20@soas.ac.uk R-Mazza@wiu.edu Mobile: 309-826-2807 PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE: Assistant Professor 2009 WIU (Western Illinois University), Assistant Professor in the History of the late Ottoman Empire and Modern Middle East Courses taught: The Middle East a survey course from the Rise of Islam to the 20 th century The Modern Middle East upper level course on the making of the modern Middle East The First World in the Middle East upper level and graduate course on the First World War in the Middle East based on primary sources The Arab-Israeli Conflict postgraduate course based on primary sources Teaching Fellow 2008/09 SOAS, Lecturer, The First World in the Middle East and Jerusalem (Advanced Course) SOAS, Teaching Assistant, The Making of the Modern Middle East Temporary Lecturer, 2007/08 SOAS, Lecturer, The First World in the Middle East and Jerusalem (Advanced Course) SOAS, Teaching Assistant, Introduction to the History of the Near and Middle East SOAS, Teaching Assistant, The Making of the Modern Middle East Course Instructor, 2006/07 SOAS, Approaches to History Jerusalem in the Transition from Ottoman to British Rule (Course for first year students) Teaching Assistant, 2006/07 SOAS, The Making of the Modern Middle East SOAS, Introduction to the History of the Near and Middle East (Course for first year students) Teaching Assistant, 2005/06 SOAS, The Making of the Modern Middle East
ACADEMIC PREPARATION: PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, History Department, November 2007 Dissertation: Jerusalem During the First World War: Transition from Ottoman to British Rule. MA Government and Politics of the Middle East, SOAS, University of London, 2003 MA in International Relations, Bologna University, 2002 Laurea Degree (BA) in Political Science, Bologna University, 2001. LANGUAGES: Italian mother tongue English fluent Read in French and Spanish Hebrew level Aleph-Bet Basic knowledge of Turkish RESEARCH EXPERIENCE: The National Archives, Public Record Office, London National Archives and Records Administration, Washington Lambeth Palace, Anglican Archives, London Israel State Archives, Jerusalem Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem Spanish Foreign Office Archives, Madrid Italian Foreign Office Archives, Rome Vatican Secret Archive, Vatican City French Foreign Office Archives, Nantes Latin Patriarchate, Jerusalem Custody of the Holy Land, Jerusalem PUBLICATIONS Books: Jerusalem in World War One: the Palestine Diary of Consul Conde de Ballobar, I.B.Tauris: London (July, 2011) Jerusalem: from the Ottomans to the British, I.B.Tauris: London, September 2009 Articles: Writings and Changing Attitudes towards Late Ottoman Jerusalem and Early British Jerusalem To be submitted to History Compass
For God and La Patrie: Antonin Jaussen Dominica and French Agent in the Middle East 1914-1920 Submitted for publication to First World War Studies Dining Out in Times of War: Jerusalem 1914-1918, The Jerusalem Quarterly 41 (Spring 2010), p. 52-58. Antonio de la Cierva y Lewita: the Spanish Consul in Jerusalem 1914-1919, The Jerusalem Quarterly 40, (Winter 2010), p. 36-44. Churches at War: The Impact of the First World War on the Christian Institutions of Jerusalem 1914-20, Middle Eastern Studies 45, No. 2 (March 2009), p. 207-227 Le Chiese Cristiane di Gerusalemme nella Guerra Mondiale 1914-1920 (Italian) Contemporanea 4 (October 2008), p. 613-638 Chapters: Food 1250-1920, The Middle East: History, Religion and Culture, Sharpe Publisher: Armonk NY, pending publication Book Reviews: V. Lemire, La Soif de Jérusalem: Essai d Hydrohistoire (1840-1948), in The Jerusalem Quarterly M. Keren & S. Keren, We Are Coming, Unafraid: The Jewish Legion and the Promised Land in the First World War, in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies I. Khuri-Makdisi, The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism 1860-1914, in Journal of World History A. Safieh, The Peace Process: From Breakthrough to Breakdown, in DOMES 20, No. 1, (Spring 2011), p. 142-144 M. Ma oz ed., Muslims Attitudes to Jews and Israel, in DOMES 20, No. 1, (Spring 2011), p.132-35 M. Abu-Nimer, A.I. Khoury and E. Welty eds., Unity in Diversity: Interfaith Dialogue in the Middle East, in Peace and Change P. Satia, Spies in Arabia, in Insight Turkey 13, No. 1, (Jan-March 2011), p. 220-222 D. Lynch, A Divided Paradise, in DOMES 19, No. 2, (Fall 2010), p. 319-321
P. Sluglett, The Urban Social History of the Middle East, in Int. J. Middle East Stud. 42, No. 2, (2010), p. 332-334 J.M. Hammond, Battle in Iraq, in The Middle East in London, Vol. 6, No. 8, (March 2010), p. 17 G. Lewis, Balfour & Weizmann, in The Middle East in London, Vol. 6, No. 4, (October 2009), p. 13 E. Molinaro, The Holy Places of Jerusalem in Middle East Peace Process, in Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 45, No. 5, (September 2009) p. 850-851 M. Aksakal, The Ottoman Road to War in 1914, in Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 45, No. 4, (July 2009) p. 681-683 J. Renton, The Zionist Masquerade, in Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Issue 9.1, 2009 T. Mayer and S. Ali Mourad eds., Jerusalem Idea and Reality, in Bulletin of SOAS, Vol. 72, No. 1 (2009) p. 171-173 H. Ozdemir, The Ottoman Army 1914-1918, Disease and Death on the Battlefield, in Bulletin of SOAS, Vol. 72, No. 1 (2009) p. 168-169 PAPERS PRESENTED Jerusalem a City in Transition: from the Ottomans to the British 1910-1920. Kenyon Institute Jerusalem and Northern Illinois University Renegotiating Identity: The Nebi Musa Riots in Jerusalem, April 1920. University of Chicago For God and la Patrie: Antonin Jaussen Dominican and French Agent in the Middle East 1914-1919. Western Illinois University The British Conquest of Jerusalem: 9 December 1917. SOAS. The Nebi Musa Riots: Jerusalem 4-7 April 1920. SOAS, London School of Economics. Dining out in the Holy City: the Spanish Consul in Jerusalem 1914-1920. SOAS, Illinois State University.
CONFERENCES Food and Drink Histories Conference, Preston (UK), Food, Games and Leisure: the Spanish Consul in Jerusalem 1914-1920, June 2011. Urban Conflicts Conference, Belfast, Urban Violence in the Holy City: A Test of National Struggle, the Nebi Musa Riots in 1920, May 2011. MEHAT, University of Chicago, For God and la Patrie: Antonin Jaussen, Dominica and French Agent, May 2011. Symposium: Christians and the Middle East Conflict, Langley (British Columbia), Challenges and Responses of Christianity in the Holy Land: 1914-1920, March 2011. MESA, San Diego, Organiser of the Panel: A Land in Transition: Palestine and Jerusalem from Ottoman to British Rule 1900-1948 Paper Adapting and changing: the renegotiation of alliances in post-ottoman Jerusalem - Christian-Muslim Associations and Nebi Musa Riots 1920, November 2010. WOCMES III, Barcelona, Tradition and Modernity: The Custody of the Holy Land, July 2010 Ohio Academy of History Annual Meeting, Renegotiating Identity: The Nebi Musa Riots in Jerusalem, April 1920, March 2010 British Academy, Rethinking the Middle East? Values, Interests, and Security Concerns in Western Policies toward Iraq and the Wider Region, 1918-2010, Antonin Jaussen Dominican and French Agent in the Middle East 1914-1919, March 2010 Second Workshop Christian in the Middle East, St Andrews Scotland, For God and la Patrie: Antonin Jaussen Dominican and French Agent in the Middle East 1914-1919, February 2010 Workshop on Violence, Trauma, and Displacement in the Middle East and Eurasia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Effects of the First World War upon the Identities of Jerusalem, January 2010 Second Annual California State University Middle East and Islamic Studies Conference, San Francisco, The Christian institutions of Jerusalem and Palestine from the late 19th century to the early 1920s, October 2009 BRISMES, London, Archival Research in the Middle East: Practical and Ethical Issues, September 2008
MESA, Montreal, Roundtable Re-thinking Nationalism and Inter-Communal Relations in Late Ottoman Palestine, November 2007 Tel-Hai Academic College (Israel), Palestine and the First World War a New Perspective, The Spanish Consul in Jerusalem 1914-1920 a new perspective on Jerusalem in the First World War, September 2007 BRISMES, Oxford, A New Source in History: The Spanish Consul in Jerusalem 1914-1920, July 2007 GRANTS-PRIZES RECEIVED AND AFFILIATIONS: Western Illinois University Research Grant 2009/10 Western Illinois University, Provost Travel Grant 2009 SOAS Director s Teaching Prize 2008, runner up Council of British Research in the Levantine (CBRL), Travel Grant, awarded 2004 Senate House, University of London, Travel Grant, awarded 2004 Italian Foreign Office, Turkish language course, Istanbul, awarded summer 2004 Member of: AHA, American Historical Association MESA, Middle East Studies Association CBRL, Centre for British Research in the Levantine BRISMES, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies LMEI, London Middle East Institute PARC, Palestinian American Research Center NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE: 2009 Basketball Referee, IHSA (Illinois High School Association) 1992-2009 Basketball Referee, currently officiating at National level both England Basketball and the Professional BBL (British Basketball League). 2002-2005 Assistant Manager, SOAS Union Shop. 1992-1995 Sport journalist for local newspapers and radio. REFERENCES: Referees: Dr. Nelida Fuccaro, Reader SOAS, History Department, nf2@soas.ac.uk, +44 20 7898 4618
University of London Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (UK) Dr. Lee Brice, Associate Professor WIU, History Department, ll-brice@wiu.edu, 309 298 2982 Western Illinois University 1 University Circle Macomb IL 61455 Dr. Benjamin Fortna, Senior Lecturer SOAS, History Department, bf7@soas.ac.uk, + 44 20 7898 4632 University of London Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG (UK)