• Near East History
• Lebanon and Jordan

Publications:

American University of Beirut (AUB): America’s Religious and Educational Legacy in the Middle East. (Contracted with University of Texas Press. Manuscript due in April 2008).

“Liberal Education at the American University of Beirut (AUB): Protest, Protestantism, and the Meaning of Freedom.” In The Roots of Liberal Thought in the Eastern Mediterranean. Edited by Thomas Philip and Christopher Schumann. (In Progress).

“Jordan: Prescription for Obedience and Conformity.” In Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East. Edited by Eleanor Doumato and Gregory Starrett. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Press, 2006.

Nationalist Voices in Jordan: The Street and the State. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.

“Writing the Nation: Textbooks of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East XXI, nos. 1 &2
(2001): 5-14.