People Type: Middle Eastern & North African History

Lapina, Elizabeth

I am a historian of the Middle Ages with a research focus on the history of the crusades. One of my main interests is the perceptions and representations of the crusading movement in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. My first two monographs, Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade (Penn State, …

Stolz, Daniel

I research and teach the history of the late Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the modern Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  I am especially interested to understand how Ottomans used new kinds of technical knowledge to transform their society in the decades before World War I. In my first book, The Lighthouse …