Victoria Penziner Hightower
Biographic Data
| ID | 5442940 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria Penziner Hightower |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria Penziner |
| FAMILY NAME | Hightower |
| SIGNATURE | HIGHTOWER V P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0644-0109 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hope for the Future
The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Secretariat established the Committee for Undergraduate Middle East Studies (CUMES) in 2012 and since 2014 the committee has hosted annual undergraduate research workshops.
Mesa's Committee for Undergraduate Middle East Studies
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Methods in the madness? Exploring the logics of torture in Syrian counterinsurgency practices
While the administrations of Hafez and Bashar al-Assad employed torture regularly as a tool of authoritarian governance, this usage changed dramatically in nature as the revolution moved from protests to insurgency, which posed an increasingly significant threat to the regime’s survival. In the counterinsurgency literature, torture’s function is generally tied to intelligence gathering. In the context of Syria’s post-2011 Counterinsurgency (COIN)…
Sea of Pearls
Sea of Pearls, by Robert Carter, is an ambitious book that traces the history of pearling in the Persian Gulf for 7000 years. This is a virtual encyclopedia for Gulf pearling that provides any scho
Pearling and Political Power in the Trucial States, 1850–1930
The political ramifications of debt are often ignored in favor of looking at the economic problems or social ills that accompanied the accumulation of debts. This article examines how political power and debt are intertwined, pushing the discussion beyond a simple dichotomy of debt being good or bad. Subjects' accumulated debts could both harm and help a ruler cement his own power or destabilize a neighbor's. Pearling provides an excellent lens t…
Pearls and the Southern Persian/Arabian Gulf
Scholars often discuss marine commodities within the framework of man-made declension; indeed there are several examples in this volume. This article expands the scope of marine environmental history into a new area, the Persian/Arabian Gulf, and into a commodity that is often ignored, pearls. The pearl industry in the southern Persian/Arabian Gulf provides an example of exploitation that declined for reasons other than overfishing, habitat destr…
Pearls and the Southern Persian/Arabian Gulf
Scholars often discuss marine commodities within the framework of man-made declension; indeed there are several examples in this volume. This article expands the scope of marine environmental history into a new area, the Persian/Arabian Gulf, and into a commodity that is often ignored, pearls. The pearl industry in the southern Persian/Arabian Gulf provides an example of exploitation that declined for reasons other than overfishing, habitat destr…
Pearling and Political Power in the Trucial States, 1850–1930
The political ramifications of debt are often ignored in favor of looking at the economic problems or social ills that accompanied the accumulation of debts. This article examines how political power and debt are intertwined, pushing the discussion beyond a simple dichotomy of debt being good or bad. Subjects' accumulated debts could both harm and help a ruler cement his own power or destabilize a neighbor's. Pearling provides an excellent lens t…
Pearls and the Southern Persian/Arabian Gulf
Scholars often discuss marine commodities within the framework of man-made declension; indeed there are several examples in this volume. This article expands the scope of marine environmental history into a new area, the Persian/Arabian Gulf, and into a commodity that is often ignored, pearls. The pearl industry in the southern Persian/Arabian Gulf provides an example of exploitation that declined for reasons other than overfishing, habitat destr…
Sea of Pearls
Sea of Pearls, by Robert Carter, is an ambitious book that traces the history of pearling in the Persian Gulf for 7000 years. This is a virtual encyclopedia for Gulf pearling that provides any scho
Methods in the madness? Exploring the logics of torture in Syrian counterinsurgency practices
While the administrations of Hafez and Bashar al-Assad employed torture regularly as a tool of authoritarian governance, this usage changed dramatically in nature as the revolution moved from protests to insurgency, which posed an increasingly significant threat to the regime’s survival. In the counterinsurgency literature, torture’s function is generally tied to intelligence gathering. In the context of Syria’s post-2011 Counterinsurgency (COIN)…
Mesa's Committee for Undergraduate Middle East Studies
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Hope for the Future
The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Secretariat established the Committee for Undergraduate Middle East Studies (CUMES) in 2012 and since 2014 the committee has hosted annual undergraduate research workshops.
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (2 works) · Oceanography (2 works) · Persian (2 works) · Politics (2 works)