Stacy E. Holden
Associate Professor
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Research focus:
Modern Middle East and North Africa, US Relations with the Arab World
Office and Contact
Room: BRNG 6166
Office hours:
- Spring 2024:
- Mondays, 2-3pm
Email: sholden@purdue.edu
Fax: (765) 496-1755
Courses
Hist 246 Modern Middle East and North Africa
Hist 31105 World War I in the Middle East
Hist 250 US Relations with the Middle East and North Africa
Hist 31205 The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Hist 34505 Arabs in American Eyes
Hist 455 Modern Iraq
Ph.D., Boston University, 2005
Specialization
Stacy E. Holden teaches about the modern Middle East and North Africa as well as US engagement with the Mediterranean world. She is the author of The Politics of Food in Modern Morocco (University Press of Florida, 2009) and A Documentary History of Modern Iraq (University Press of Florida, 2012). She has written on war monuments, historic preservation, urban labor, and representations of the Arab world in American romance novels. She is currently completing a book for Cambridge University Press, “Edith Wharton and the Islamic East: How a Gilded Age Novelist Laid a Foundation for U.S. Interventionism in the Twentieth Century.”