Dr. Rosie Bsheer

Biography

Rosie Bsheer is an Associate Professor of History at Harvard University, specializing in the modern Middle East. Her teaching and research interests focus on Arab intellectual and social movements, petro-capitalism, state formation, and the production of historical knowledge. Bsheer is the author of "Archive Wars: Politics of History in Saudi Arabia" (Stanford University Press, 2020), which won the AGAPS Biennial Book Award in 2021 and was recognized as an Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association. She is currently working on a manuscript exploring the history of private property in Saudi Arabia. Bsheer teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses on themes such as oil and empire, social movements, political economy, and historiography related to the modern Middle East. In addition to her academic work, she has contributed as an Associate Producer for the Oscar-nominated film "Country, Country" and serves as a co-editor for the e-zine Jadaliyya. Bsheer's research and projects have received support from various prestigious foundations, including the Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. She completed her Ph.D. in History at Columbia University in 2014 and was previously an Assistant Professor at Yale University from 2014 to 2018. Bsheer has been recognized for her interdisciplinary teaching with several awards at Yale University.

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