Orit
Bashkin
Research Topic
Rediscovering Iraq: Jewish Travels in Modern Babylon, 1921-1951
Bio
Orit Bashkin is a professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. A historian working on the intellectual, social, and cultural history of the modern Middle East, she teaches courses on nationalism, colonialism and postcolonialism in the Middle East, on modern Islamic civilization, and on Israeli history. Her fields of expertise include Iraqi history and culture, Arab-Jewish history, Arab intellectual history, and Israeli history.
Bashkin earned her PhD in Near Eastern studies from Princeton University. She has previously been a fellow at the Katz Center, and has also held fellowships at the National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education and at the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago.
Selected publications
- Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel (Stanford University Press, 2017)
- New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq (Stanford University Press, 2012)
