Betty Anderson

Betty Anderson is an Affiliate Faculty Member of the Boston University Global Development Policy Center and a Professor of Middle East History at Boston University. She is the author of ‘Nationalist Voices in Jordan: The Street and the State’ (University of Texas Press, 2005), ‘The American University of Beirut:  Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education’ (University of Texas Press, 2011) and ‘A History of the Modern Middle East’ (Stanford University Press, 2016). She  has published articles in Civil Wars, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Critique and Jordanies, as well as chapters for a number of edited volumes. She has written about the themes covered by Islamic and history textbooks used in Jordan, the politicizing role of education in the 20^th century Middle East history and the evolution of the American liberal education system at the American University of Beirut.