Keith David Watenpaugh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3089016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith David Watenpaugh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith David |
| FAMILY NAME | Watenpaugh |
| SIGNATURE | WATENPAUGH K D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6549-8522 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Academic Freedom and the Right to Think in Post-Civil War Syria
With the collapse of the regime in Syria in late 2024 and the end of a brutal civil war, Syrian higher education faces a series of challenges as it adjusts to a post-authoritarian, but Islamist, government. Institutions of higher education were significantly degraded during the war and universities became sites of resistance, surveillance, torture, and violence. This article assesses the Middle East Studies Association’s failure to adequately eng…
The Pomegranate and the Orange
“No, our Armenian policy is absolutely fixed, and nothing can change it. We will not have the Armenians anywhere in Anatolia. They can live in the desert but nowhere else.” Talaat Pasha to US Ambas...
Fatma Müge Göçek. Denial of Violence
A hundred years ago, the Ottoman Empire embarked upon a centrally organized and bureaucratized process of forced displacement, extermination, mass rape, theft of property, and the sale of children to eliminate its Armenian community, one of the largest ethnicities in a modern state that encompassed the great world-city of Istanbul, Anatolia, modern-day Iraq, and the Arab Eastern Mediterranean. Ronald Grigor Suny’s “They Can Live in the Desert but…
The Drowned, the Saved, and the Forgotten
Dominant narratives of the Eastern Mediterranean's 20th century exclude the study of Western humanitarianism and refugee survivors of the 1915 genocide of the Ottoman Armenians. Reasons for this exclusion abound. At the forefront is the abject nature of the human beings who populate that history, something which often induces revulsion on the part of historians in the present: these were people who left little of the appealing and elegant traces …
Bread from Stones
Bread from Stones explores how modern humanitarianism evolved in the face of the historical experience of mass violence, starvation, human trafficking, and the displacement of millions in the early twentieth-century eastern Mediterranean. Using a vast array of archival, literary, and visual sources, the book juxtaposes the inhumanity of war, civil conflict, and genocide with the creation of forms of aid for the victims of violence, the establishm…
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi. The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860–1914
The Nahda, or Arab Renaissance—which as a historical period (roughly the last third of the nineteenth century) and concept remains largely unrevised and undertheorized—is characterized primarily by the efflorescence of Arabic-language literary activity in several cities of the Eastern Mediterranean, the Levantine port city of Beirut in particular, and is often portrayed as the genesis of Arab nationalism. Ilham Khuri-Makdisi's book seeks to recov…
Are There Any Children for Sale?”
The forced transfer of children from one group to another is considered an element of the crime of genocide, yet this subject has attracted little scholarly attention. Using the history of the mass transfer of Armenian children during the Armenian Genocide of 1915–1922 as a case, this article argues that the study of child transfer and recovery is critical to both the history of human rights and a more sophisticated understanding of genocide, inc…
The League of Nations' Rescue of Armenian Genocide Survivors and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism, 1920–1927
The essay centers of the efforts by the League of Nations to rescue women and children survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. This rescue -- a seemingly unambiguous good -- was at once a constitutive act in drawing the boundaries of the international community, a key moment in the definition of humanitarianism, and a site of resistance to the colonial presence in the post-Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean. Drawing from a wide range of source materi…
A Response to Michael Gunter's Review of the Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey
Michael Gunter should not have written a review of Guenter Lewy's The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide for IJMES or for any other scholarly journal, as he was intimately involved in the prepublication review and promotion of the book
Being Modern in the Middle East
Preface and Acknowledgments ix Note on Translation and Transliteration xiii Abbreviations and Acronymns xv CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: Modernity, Class, and the Architectures of Community 1 CHAPTER TWO: An Eastern Mediterranean City on the Eve of Revolution 31 SECTION I: Being Modern in a Time of Revolution: The Revolution of 1908 and the Beginnings of Middle-Class Politics (1908-1918) 55 CHAPTER THREE: Ottoman Precedents (I): Journalism, Voluntar…
Cleansing the cosmopolitan city
Opening the Doors” One Year Later
Word began to trickle out of Baghdad in mid-April 2003 that the Iraqi National Library and Archives and the library of the Ministry of Holy Endowments and Religious Affairs (al-Awqaf) had been burned and looted during the paroxysm of aggravated mayhem that followed the collapse of the Baathist regime. Soon, it became clear that in addition to the damage to those libraries, universities, research centers and private institutions had also been harm…
Fragile Glasnost on the Tigris
Syrian Studies Association Dissertation Award
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Middle-Class Modernity and the Persistence of the Politics of Notables in Inter-War Syria
From Paris in June 1928, Edmond Rabbath (1901–91) sent to Saעdallah al-Jabiri (1893–1947) his recently published L'évolution politique de la Syrie sous mandat . While the book is an early exploration of the legal underpinnings of the French Mandate, it is also the first nationalist history of Syria. Adopting a now familiar historiographical trope that the Ottoman past was a period of decadence and unjust alien rule, Rabbath organized recent episo…
Creating Phantoms”
This quotation may be nothing more than a well-turned phrase by its author, Zaki al-Arsuzi. Nonetheless, it illustrates a dilemma that young men like him faced in the troubled years preceding Syrian independence: As French-educated young men, should they take their places as minor functionaries in the colonial machine and accept the promise of a comfortable and privileged life, or should they join the growing political and ideological struggle to…
The League of Nations' Rescue of Armenian Genocide Survivors and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism, 1920–1927
The essay centers of the efforts by the League of Nations to rescue women and children survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. This rescue -- a seemingly unambiguous good -- was at once a constitutive act in drawing the boundaries of the international community, a key moment in the definition of humanitarianism, and a site of resistance to the colonial presence in the post-Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean. Drawing from a wide range of source materi…
Creating Phantoms”
This quotation may be nothing more than a well-turned phrase by its author, Zaki al-Arsuzi. Nonetheless, it illustrates a dilemma that young men like him faced in the troubled years preceding Syrian independence: As French-educated young men, should they take their places as minor functionaries in the colonial machine and accept the promise of a comfortable and privileged life, or should they join the growing political and ideological struggle to…
Cleansing the cosmopolitan city
Are There Any Children for Sale?”
The forced transfer of children from one group to another is considered an element of the crime of genocide, yet this subject has attracted little scholarly attention. Using the history of the mass transfer of Armenian children during the Armenian Genocide of 1915–1922 as a case, this article argues that the study of child transfer and recovery is critical to both the history of human rights and a more sophisticated understanding of genocide, inc…
Middle-Class Modernity and the Persistence of the Politics of Notables in Inter-War Syria
From Paris in June 1928, Edmond Rabbath (1901–91) sent to Saעdallah al-Jabiri (1893–1947) his recently published L'évolution politique de la Syrie sous mandat . While the book is an early exploration of the legal underpinnings of the French Mandate, it is also the first nationalist history of Syria. Adopting a now familiar historiographical trope that the Ottoman past was a period of decadence and unjust alien rule, Rabbath organized recent episo…
Creating Phantoms”
This quotation may be nothing more than a well-turned phrase by its author, Zaki al-Arsuzi. Nonetheless, it illustrates a dilemma that young men like him faced in the troubled years preceding Syrian independence: As French-educated young men, should they take their places as minor functionaries in the colonial machine and accept the promise of a comfortable and privileged life, or should they join the growing political and ideological struggle to…
Fragile Glasnost on the Tigris
Syrian Studies Association Dissertation Award
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Middle-Class Modernity and the Persistence of the Politics of Notables in Inter-War Syria
From Paris in June 1928, Edmond Rabbath (1901–91) sent to Saעdallah al-Jabiri (1893–1947) his recently published L'évolution politique de la Syrie sous mandat . While the book is an early exploration of the legal underpinnings of the French Mandate, it is also the first nationalist history of Syria. Adopting a now familiar historiographical trope that the Ottoman past was a period of decadence and unjust alien rule, Rabbath organized recent episo…
Opening the Doors” One Year Later
Word began to trickle out of Baghdad in mid-April 2003 that the Iraqi National Library and Archives and the library of the Ministry of Holy Endowments and Religious Affairs (al-Awqaf) had been burned and looted during the paroxysm of aggravated mayhem that followed the collapse of the Baathist regime. Soon, it became clear that in addition to the damage to those libraries, universities, research centers and private institutions had also been harm…
Cleansing the cosmopolitan city
Being Modern in the Middle East
Preface and Acknowledgments ix Note on Translation and Transliteration xiii Abbreviations and Acronymns xv CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: Modernity, Class, and the Architectures of Community 1 CHAPTER TWO: An Eastern Mediterranean City on the Eve of Revolution 31 SECTION I: Being Modern in a Time of Revolution: The Revolution of 1908 and the Beginnings of Middle-Class Politics (1908-1918) 55 CHAPTER THREE: Ottoman Precedents (I): Journalism, Voluntar…
A Response to Michael Gunter's Review of the Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey
Michael Gunter should not have written a review of Guenter Lewy's The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide for IJMES or for any other scholarly journal, as he was intimately involved in the prepublication review and promotion of the book
The League of Nations' Rescue of Armenian Genocide Survivors and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism, 1920–1927
The essay centers of the efforts by the League of Nations to rescue women and children survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. This rescue -- a seemingly unambiguous good -- was at once a constitutive act in drawing the boundaries of the international community, a key moment in the definition of humanitarianism, and a site of resistance to the colonial presence in the post-Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean. Drawing from a wide range of source materi…
Are There Any Children for Sale?”
The forced transfer of children from one group to another is considered an element of the crime of genocide, yet this subject has attracted little scholarly attention. Using the history of the mass transfer of Armenian children during the Armenian Genocide of 1915–1922 as a case, this article argues that the study of child transfer and recovery is critical to both the history of human rights and a more sophisticated understanding of genocide, inc…
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi. The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860–1914
The Nahda, or Arab Renaissance—which as a historical period (roughly the last third of the nineteenth century) and concept remains largely unrevised and undertheorized—is characterized primarily by the efflorescence of Arabic-language literary activity in several cities of the Eastern Mediterranean, the Levantine port city of Beirut in particular, and is often portrayed as the genesis of Arab nationalism. Ilham Khuri-Makdisi's book seeks to recov…
Bread from Stones
Bread from Stones explores how modern humanitarianism evolved in the face of the historical experience of mass violence, starvation, human trafficking, and the displacement of millions in the early twentieth-century eastern Mediterranean. Using a vast array of archival, literary, and visual sources, the book juxtaposes the inhumanity of war, civil conflict, and genocide with the creation of forms of aid for the victims of violence, the establishm…
The Drowned, the Saved, and the Forgotten
Dominant narratives of the Eastern Mediterranean's 20th century exclude the study of Western humanitarianism and refugee survivors of the 1915 genocide of the Ottoman Armenians. Reasons for this exclusion abound. At the forefront is the abject nature of the human beings who populate that history, something which often induces revulsion on the part of historians in the present: these were people who left little of the appealing and elegant traces …
Fatma Müge Göçek. Denial of Violence
A hundred years ago, the Ottoman Empire embarked upon a centrally organized and bureaucratized process of forced displacement, extermination, mass rape, theft of property, and the sale of children to eliminate its Armenian community, one of the largest ethnicities in a modern state that encompassed the great world-city of Istanbul, Anatolia, modern-day Iraq, and the Arab Eastern Mediterranean. Ronald Grigor Suny’s “They Can Live in the Desert but…
Academic Freedom and the Right to Think in Post-Civil War Syria
With the collapse of the regime in Syria in late 2024 and the end of a brutal civil war, Syrian higher education faces a series of challenges as it adjusts to a post-authoritarian, but Islamist, government. Institutions of higher education were significantly degraded during the war and universities became sites of resistance, surveillance, torture, and violence. This article assesses the Middle East Studies Association’s failure to adequately eng…
The Pomegranate and the Orange
“No, our Armenian policy is absolutely fixed, and nothing can change it. We will not have the Armenians anywhere in Anatolia. They can live in the desert but nowhere else.” Talaat Pasha to US Ambas...
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