Dr. Hannah Louise Clark

Biography

Hannah-Louise Clark joined the University of Glasgow in January 2019. She teaches Special Collections Global History Hackathons and runs research projects on the history of European colonialism and decolonization from a global vantage point. She has decades of experience researching the changing economic, social, and political dynamics of global imperial interconnections across Africa and the Middle East from around 1800 to the present. Dr. Clark holds a PhD and MA in History/History of Science from Princeton University (2014, 2010), a diploma in Arabic Language and Culture from the American University in Cairo (2008), a degree in Regional Studies-Middle East from Harvard University (2005), and a BA Honours in Modern History (2002). She has lived and studied in Algeria, Egypt, France, Lebanon, Morocco, and the United States. Before taking her current post, she was a fixed-term Departmental Lecturer in Modern European World History at the University of Oxford (2014-2017) and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History at the University of Glasgow (2017-2018). Dr. Clark’s research interests include the writing of history in a global context, the dynamics of health and social welfare, cross-cultural translations of knowledge, and the organizational study of science and bureaucracy. She focuses on the intersection of race, religion, and the evolution of modern bureaucratic states, particularly in Algeria.

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