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Laura Frances Goffman

Assistant Professor

Research Description

Laura Frances Goffman is a historian of health in the modern Middle East. Her research focuses on the intersections of public health, empire, state building, and social change in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula. She is committed to bringing the Gulf region into discussions of world history, especially narratives of how migration, gender, citizenship, and state formation intersect with the movement of disease.

 

Education

Ph.D., Department of History, Georgetown University

M.A., Near Eastern Studies, New York University

B.A., HistoryGrinnell College

 

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Department of History 

Recent Publications

Goffman, L. F. (2023). Popular Politics and Epidemics in Eastern Arabia. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, 20(2), 74-94. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-10329820

Goffman, L. F. (2021). A Jar of Shaykhs' Teeth: Medicine, Politics, and the Fragments of History in Kuwait. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 53(4), 589-603. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743821000155

Goffman, L. F. (2021). Waiting for AIDS in Kuwait. Radical History Review, 2021(140), 21-48. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-8841670

Goffman, L. F. (2020). Malaria and Empire in Bahrain, 1931-1947. (Gulf Monographic Series; No. 7). Gulf Studies Center.

Goffman, L. F. (2019). Medicine and Health in the Modern Middle East and North Africa. The Arab Studies Journal, XXVII(2).

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