Annie Leah Greene
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS:
2024 – present Assistant Professor
The University of Utah, Department of History; Middle East Center affiliate, Salt Lake City, UT
2023-2024 Postdoctoral Fellow
The University of Utah, Department of History; Middle East Center affiliate, Salt Lake City, UT
2022-2023 Research Associate
The University of Chicago, Center for Middle East Studies
2021-2022 Visiting Senior Research Associate
The University of Chicago, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, Chicago, IL
2021- present Part-Time Adjunct Instructor
Loyola University Chicago, Department of Political Science, Chicago, IL
Loyola University Chicago, Department of History, Chicago, IL
Lewis University, History Department, Romeoville, IL
University of Illinois at Chicago, Religious Studies Program, Chicago, IL
2020-2021 Visiting Assistant Professor-Middle East History
Skidmore College, History Department, Saratoga Springs, NY
2019-2020 Visiting Assistant Professor-Middle East History
William & Mary, Department of History, Williamsburg, VA
2018-2019 Research Fellow
The University of Pennsylvania, Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, Philadelphia, PA
Project title: “Imperial Citizens, Diasporic Citizens: Ottoman-Iraqi Jews and Practices of Multiple Affiliation”
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
Global History; Middle East History; Islamic History; Iraq; Ottoman History; Cultural & Intellectual Production; Gender History; Book & Print History; the Press; Language Politics & Multilingualism; Islamic Political Theory; Citizenship; Nationalism; Modern Arabic Literature; Mizrahi & Sephardic History; Archival Ethics
EDUCATION:
Summer 2018 PhD, The University of Chicago, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: Provincial, Not Peripheral: Ottoman-Iraqi Intellectuals and Cultural Networks, 1863-1914, Honors
Committee: Orit Bashkin (Chair), Holly Shissler, Dina Rizk Khoury (George Washington University)
Examination Fields: Islamic History, Modern Middle East History, Modern Arabic Literature
2010 MA, SOAS, University of London, London, United Kingdom, Degree with Distinction
2009 BA, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, First Class Honors
PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Eastern Lights: The Arab Renaissance in Iraq (manuscript in progress)
Articles & Chapters
“The Laws of Women and the Insecurities of Men: Regulating Modern Jewish Gender Performance in Baghdad,” in Longing and Belonging: Jews of the Modern Islamic World. Nancy E. Berg and Dina Danon, eds. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025, 94-116.
“‘Eastern’ Print Modernities and the Jewish Newspaper of Ottoman Baghdad,” Jewish Quarterly Review 114, no. 4 (Fall 2024): 473-478.
“The Pioneers of Print in the Ottoman Province of Mosul,” Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World 14, no. 1-2 (June 2020): 51-68.
“Burying a Rabbi in Baghdad: The Limits of Ottomanism for Ottoman Iraqi Jews in the Late-Nineteenth Century,” Journal of Jewish Identities 12, no. 2 (July 2019), 97-123.
Nancy E. Berg and Annie Greene, “Thoughts about Neutralizing Gender: Strategies for Inclusion in the Language Classroom,” Hebrew Higher Education 22, no. 1 (2020).
Book Reviews
“Faisal Husain, Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and the Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire,” Journal of International Maritime History, 34, no. 4 (2023): 677-678.
“Dina Danon, The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History,” Critical Inquiry, 48, no. 3 (2022): 617-618.
“Ami Ayalon, The Arabic Print Revolution: Cultural Production and Mass Readership,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 77 (2018), 154-156.
“Nadia Atia, World War I in Mesopotamia: The British and the Ottomans in Iraq,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 80 (2017), 590-592.
“James Grehan, Twilight of the Saints: Everyday Religion in Ottoman Syria and Palestine,” Journal of Religion 97 (2017), 121-122.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Ha-Dover,” and “Mizrahi, Barukh Moshe,” Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World
Chapters & Articles In-Progress
“The Ottoman Biography of Sassoon Efendi Hasqail,” Jews of Iraq, Edinburgh University Press edited volume (accepted)
“Translating Tanzimat in Baghdad: An Ottoman-Jewish Publication as Civic Guidance,” in Beyond Cultural Identities: The Jew of Polyphony, Relationality, and Translation in Muslim Contexts, edited volume (accepted)
“Qanun al-nisa‘ and Introductory Notes,” Source Reader on Gender and Global Jewish History, Oxford University Press edited volume (accepted)
“Plurilingual Polemics and Multilingual Subjectivities: Arabics, Ottoman Turkish, and the Wor(l)ds Between,” JAL special issue on multilingual subjectivities co-editor and author (in progress)
“Jews & Empire” (chapter co-author), Reimagining Jewish Life in the Middle East, 1800s-Present: Culture, Society, History, (NEH-grant co-authored volume) Stanford University Press (in progress)
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
2022, Loyola University of Chicago, Faculty Center for Ignatian Pedagogy, Magis Teaching Award for Part-Time Faculty Nomination
2021-2022 The University of Chicago, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, Visiting Research Fellowship recipient-Quest for Modern Language between the Mediterranean and Black Seas
AY 2018-2019 The University of Pennsylvania, Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, Research Fellowship recipient-Jewish Lives in Modern Islamic Contexts
AY 2017-2018 The University of Chicago, Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, Jacob Greenberg Dissertation Year Fellowship recipient
Spring 2016 The American Research Institute in Iraq, Research Fellowship recipient
Winter 2016 The University of Chicago, Nicholson Center for British Studies, Research Grant recipient
Summer 2015 The University of Chicago, Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, Research Grant recipient
Summer 2013 Institute of Turkish Studies, Grant recipient, Ottoman Studies Foundation Ottoman Summer School, Cunda, Turkey
Summer 2012 Foreign Language Acquisition Summer, Grant recipient, Boğaziçi University Intensive Turkish, Istanbul, Turkey
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Instructor, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Department of History
Autumn 2025, America and the Middle East, seminar course
Spring 2025, World History since 1500, lecture course
Autumn 2024, History of Israel/Palestine, lecture course
Spring 2024, History of Jews of the Islamic World, seminar course
Spring 2024, 2025 History of the Middle East since 1914, lecture course
Autumn 2023, 2025 Gender & Middle East History, seminar course
Autumn 2023, 2024, History of the Middle East, 1789-1914, lecture course
Instructor, Loyola University, Chicago, Department of Political Science
Spring 2023, Islamic Feminism, seminar course
AY 2021-2022, Autumn 2022, Islamic Political Theory, seminar course
Instructor, Loyola University, Chicago, Department of History
AY 2022-2023, Survey of Islamic History, lecture course
Instructor, Lewis University, History Department
AY 2021-2023, & Summer 2022 Global History and Cultures 2 (1500-2010), lecture course
Instructor, The University of Illinois, Chicago, Religious Studies Program
Spring 2023, Contemporary Islam: Select Themes & Debates, seminar course
Autumn 2021 & Autumn 2022 Introduction to the Study of Islam, lecture course
Spring 2022, Jews of the Islamic World, seminar course (UIC Jewish-Muslim initiative)
Instructor, Skidmore College, History Department
Spring 2021, Gender & Power in the Ottoman Empire, directed study
Spring 2021, Revolutions in the Middle East, seminar course
Spring 2021, WWI in the Middle East & North Africa, seminar course
Spring 2021, Making the Modern Middle East, lecture course
Autumn 2020, Survey of the Middle East, ca. 600-1500, lecture course
Autumn 2020, The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923, lecture course
Autumn 2020, Media History of the Middle East, seminar course
Instructor, William & Mary, Department of History
2019-2020, History of the Middle East since 1400, lecture course
Spring 2020, Beyond the Caravan: Travelers and Travel-Writing in the Middle East, writing seminar
Autumn 2019, History of the Middle East 500-1400, lecture course
Autumn 2019, America and the Middle East, seminar course
Lector, The University of Chicago
Winter-Spring 2017, Academic and Professional Writing, Writing Program
Language Teaching Assistant, The University of Chicago
2015-2016, Intermediate Arabic 1-2-3, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
2014-2015, Beginning Arabic 1-2-3, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
History Teaching Assistant, The University of Chicago
Winter 2015, Cultural History of the Ottoman Empire, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Spring 2014, History of the Modern Middle East, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Winter 2014, History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Guest Lecturer
Spring 2023, Jews of the Islamic World, Brown University, History Department & Judaic Studies Program, Providence, RI, Lecture: “Modern, not Progressive: Religious Authority & Gender Norms”
Spring 2021, Europe: From the Renaissance to the Present, Metropolitan State University, Denver, History Department, Denver, CO, Lecture: “Age of Imperialism”
Spring 2020, Jews of the Islamic World, Brandeis University, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Waltham, MA, Lecture: “Revolutionary Jews: The Spirit of 1908”
Autumn 2018, Ottoman History, University of Pennsylvania, Department of History, Philadelphia, PA, Lecture: “Manuscripts and Print Culture in the Middle East”
Autumn 2017, Islamic History, Loyola University, History Department, Chicago, IL, Lecture: “Constitutionalism and the Nahda”
Spring 2017, History of the Levant: From Antiquity to ISIL, Loyola University, History Department, Chicago, IL, Lecture: “The Ottoman Empire at War, 18th Century”
Spring 2016, Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and Politics in the Modern Middle East, Northwestern University, Middle East and North Africa Program, Chicago, IL, Lecture: “Oscillating Nationalisms: The Diverging Pasts in the Iraqi National Myth”
PRESENTATIONS:
Invited Lectures
02/2024 “‘Cairo Writes, Beirut Prints, and Baghdad Reads’: Reconstituting the Regional Frame for the Iraqi Nahda,” University of Utah, Department of History, Salt Lake City, UT
02/2023 “Jewish News, Imperial Matters: The 19th-Century Ottoman Baghdadi Press in Hebrew Script,” Brown University, History Department & Judaic Studies Program, Providence, RI
02/2020 “’He Speaks the Truth in His Heart’: Situating the Jewish Newspaper of Ottoman Baghdad,” Brandeis University, Near Eastern & Judaic Studies Department, Waltham, MA
03/2019 “The Ottoman-Iraqi Jewish Press,” Penn State University, History Department & Jewish Studies Program, State College, PA
01/2019 “Iraqi Letters: Networks and Identities in the Twentieth Century,” Stanford University, History Department, Stanford, CA
11/2018 “Ha-Dover: An Ottoman-Iraqi Jewish Newspaper, 1863-1871,” University of Pennsylvania, Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Public Lecture Series, Philadelphia, PA
Conferences
12/2025 “Ottoman Intellectuals and the Arab Renaissance in Iraq,” A Modern Iraq Convening, The Academic Research Institute in Iraq, Virtual Conference
12/2025 “A Public(ation) Shame: Ottoman Baghdadi agunot and Ha-Dover,” Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.
07/2025 “Printing God’s Wonders and Debating Gravity: Translating, Inventing, and Versifying Science in Iraq,” Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies World Congress, the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
04/2025 “‘The New Script (al-khatt al-jadid)’: Transforming Arabic into the Language of Modernity?” Tanner Humanities Center Symposium, the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
11/2024 “Dis/Located in Iraq: Translating History and Versifying Stagnation,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, panel organizer and presenter, (virtual)
04/2023 “Beyond Fusha in the Iraqi Nahda: Arabic Languages and Plurilingualism,” The Quest for Modern Languages Between the Mediterranean and the Black Seas, the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
12/2022 “Narrating Literary Histories, Translating Linguistic Presents: A Nahda Project of Ottoman Iraq,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, panel organizer and presenter, Denver, CO
07/2022 “Translating Tanzimat in Baghdad: Ottoman-Jewish Publications as Civic Practice,” Beyond Cultural Identities: The Jew of Polyphony, Relationality, and Translation in Muslim Contexts, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
12/2021 “Perceptions of Stasis in Late Ottoman Baghdad,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, (virtual)
10/2021 “Unraveling the Origins of a Future World in Ottoman Baghdad,” Midwest World History Association, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
01/2021 “Ottoman-Baghdadi Jews and the Discourse of Equal Rights,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington (on program–cancelled COVID-19)
10/2020 “World Building and Nation Seeking in the Ottoman-Iraqi School of Dreams,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, (virtual–COVID-19)
02/2020 “The Nahda in Iraq,” Iraqi Studies: Past, Present, Future, Columbia University, NY, NY
11/2019 “The Arabic Languages: Diglossia and Language Hybridity in Baghdadi Print Culture,” panel organizer and presenter, Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
09/2019 “Political Roots of an Iraqi Statesman: The Ottoman Deputy Sassoon Efendi Hesqel,” Jews of Iraq: Engagement with Modernities Conference, British Institute for the Study of Iraq and the British Academy, London, UK
05/2019 “Investing in Empire: Ottoman-Iraqi Jews as Imperial Subjects,” Order, Disorder, Re-Order: Jews and Muslims Encountering the Modern Era, Gruss Colloquium of the Herbert D. Katz Center of Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
11/2018 “Mobilizing Support through Multiple Channels: Ottoman-Baghdadi Jews’ Recourse to Justice,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX
07/2018 “The Baghdadi Press: From Model to Innovation,” Fifth World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies, Seville, Spain
11/2017 “‘The Suspension of Print is the Hand of Tyranny’: Freedom of the Press in Ottoman Iraq?” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
05/2017 “Between Liberty and Justice: Ottoman Frontier Constitutionalism,” Middle East History and Theory Conference, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
11/2016 “The Winding Road and Rivers Toward Responsibility: İsmail Hakkı Babanzâde’s Irak Mektupları,” American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages Annual Graduate Student Pre-Conference in Turkish and Turkic Studies, Boston University, Boston, MA
11/2015 “From Baghdad with Love: Negotiating Ottoman-Iraqi Regionalism under the CUP,” Panel sponsored by The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq, panel organizer and presenter, Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO
06/2015 “Provincial Threat and Freedom of the Press: Sulayman Faydi’s ‘al-Iqaz’ in Basra, 1909” British Society for Middle Eastern Studies – European Association for Middle Eastern Studies Joint Annual Conference, London, UK
11/2014 “Ma‘ruf al-Rusafi, the Private Press, and the Iraqi Nahda,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
05/2014“Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi and the Politics of Poetry, 1908-1918,” Middle East History and Theory Conference, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
10/2013 “al-Zawra’ and the East: Locating Baghdad through the Pages of its First Newspaper,” panel organizer and presenter, Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
Workshops
11/2025 “Reimagining Jews in the Modern Middle East,” roundtable participant, Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.,
09/2024 “Beyond Ottoman Orientalism: Loyal Critics and the Iraqi School of Dreams,” Middle East Center Faculty Friday Works in Progress Presentation, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
05/2022, “Zevra/Zawra‘ and Ottoman Official Provincial Bilingualism,” The Quest for Modern Language Workshop participant and organizer, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
12/2021 “Multilingual Shift in Middle Eastern Studies,” roundtable participant, Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, (remote)
11/2019 “Middle Eastern Studies within Jewish Studies and Vice Versa,” roundtable participant, Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
05/2017 “Reburying a Rabbi in Ottoman Baghdad,” Jewish Studies Workshop, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
05/2016 “Will We Talk about ISIS?” Teaching Middle East and Islamic History Today,” roundtable participant, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
05/2016 “Language(s) and Culture of the Press in Ottoman Baghdad,” Great Lakes Ottomanist Workshop, York University, Toronto, Ontario
03/2016 “Can the Provinces Speak?: A Roundtable Discussion on Writing Ottoman Provincial History,” roundtable organizer and participant, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
09/2015 to 06/2016, Research Assistant
Dr. Aaron Tugendhaft, Humanities, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Research on antique Mesopotamian influences and artifacts in 20th-century Iraqi nationalism and the Mosul Museum; collection and translation of Arabic sources
01/2014 to 06/2014, Research Assistant
Dr. A. Holly Shissler, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Research on Ottoman women’s mobilization in WWI
02/2014 to 05/2014, Research Assistant
Dr. Marilyn Booth, Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Collected biographies from the Arabic journal al-Lata’if for a project on Arab women’s auto-biographies
09/2011 to 06/2018, Freelance Editor for Non-Native English Speakers, Chicago, IL, Chicago, IL
SERVICE TO THE FIELD:
03/2019 to 08/2019 The Academic Research Institute in Iraq Fellowship Application Review Committee
2013-2014 29th Middle East History and Theory Conference Organizer, Chicago, IL
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
2025 – present Association of Jewish Studies
2023 – present Society for Global Nineteenth Century Studies
2021 – 2022 Midwest World History Association
2019 – present American Historical Association
2015 – 2016 British Society for Middle Eastern Studies
2014 – present British Institute for the Study of Iraq
2012 – present Middle East Studies Association
2012 – present The Academic Research Institute in Iraq
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
French: advanced in speaking, reading, writing
Arabic: advanced in reading, writing
Modern Turkish: advanced in reading, intermediate in speaking
Hebrew: advanced in reading, speaking, writing
Ottoman Turkish: intermediate in reading
German: intermediate in reading
Judeo-Arabic: intermediate in reading
Dr. Annie Greene 