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Columbia University Public Humanities Initiative

Part of the series "Technologies of Power: Tracing Empire at Home &amp; Abroad" | A public humanities initiative at Columbia University

Zainab Bahrani is Edith Porada Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and author of Rituals of War (Zone/MIT Press, 2008) which won the American Historical Association Prize, and The Infinite Image: Art, Time and the Aesthetic Dimension in Antiquity (Reaktion/University of Chicago Press, 2014) which won the Lionel Trilling Prize. Bahrani is also editor and co-author of volumes written to accompany her co-curated exhibitions: Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire 1753-1914 (Istanbul, 2011) and Modernism and Iraq (New York, 2009). Major awards for her work include grants from the Getty Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, a 2003 Guggenheim, and a 2019 Carnegie award. In 2020 she was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Rosie Bsheer is a historian of the modern Middle East. She is the author of Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia(Stanford University Press, August 2020) and the Associate Producer of the 2007 Oscar-nominated film My Country, My Country. She is also Co-Editor of Jadaliyya E-zine, and Associate Editor of Tadween Publishing. Bsheer’s work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the Whiting Foundation, and the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life. She received her Ph.D. in History from Columbia University (2014) and comes to Harvard University from Yale University, where she was Assistant Professor of History (2014–2018). Priya Satia is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History and Professor of History at Stanford University, where she teaches modern British and British empire history. Her first book, Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East (2008), won three major prizes including the AHA’s Herbert Baxter Adams Prize. Her second book, Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution (2018), also won three major prizes, including the AHA’s Jerry Bentley Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize, the LA Times Book Prize in History, and the Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies. Her latest book, Time's Monster: How History Makes History (2020), was named one of BBC History Magazine and the New Statesman's best books of 2020.

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