Faculty Fellow
Professor, Department of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, Faculty of Arts & Science
Zachary Lockman is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and of History. His main research and teaching field is the socioeconomic, cultural and political history of the modern Middle East, especially Palestine/Israel and Egypt. His most recent book is Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism (Cambridge, 2004/2009). He is also the author of Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 (California, 1996) and (with Joel Beinin) Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954 (Princeton, 1987). His current research explores the institutional and intellectual history of area studies as a component of American academic life and the (often unanticipated) consequences of that development, with particular focus on the origins and trajectory of Middle Eaststudies as an academic field.