Dr. Stephen Pascoe

Biography

Stephen Pascoe is a historian specializing in cities, infrastructure, population, and imperialism, with a focus on the modern Middle East and the global French Empire. He received his Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) majoring in History and Arabic from the University of Melbourne in 2004, followed by an MPhil in Urban Planning from the Melbourne School of Design in 2011. He completed his PhD in History at the University of California, Irvine in 2019. Currently, he is a lecturer at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and a postdoctoral fellow at the Laureate Centre for the History of Population. His forthcoming monograph, 'Contested Concessions: Struggle Infrastructural Sovereignty Syria,' examines how foreign-capitalized infrastructure companies in the French Mandate of Syria became targets of popular discontent. His research also includes a book project on the intellectual history of population in the Middle East and North Africa, tracking its implications for state-formation and policy debate. Additionally, he has co-edited 'Making Modernity in the Mashriq and Maghreb' (2015), which explores the contested meanings of modernity in the Middle East. He is involved in an oral history project documenting the experiences of Syrian prison detainees in Australia.

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