Academic Bio
Carl is a PhD candidate specializing in modern Iraqi history. His research and teaching interests are the political and social history of the nineteenth and twentieth century Middle East, colonialism, and state-building, with a focus on borders, state interaction with transnational populations, and official nationalisms. His dissertation examines imperial exigency, state territoriality, and the role of Bedouin tribes in the formation of Iraq’s boundaries with Saudi Arabia and Syria during the British Mandate. He was an Affiliated Fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities (2016-17), and has received a Provost’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2016), a Nicholson Center for British Studies Fellowship (2015), and two Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (2012, 2008). He holds an MA in Middle East Studies from the University of Chicago (2009), and a BA in History from Western Washington University (2004). Carl is currently Preceptor in the Global Studies Program in the College.