research overview
- Hilary Falb Kalisman's research focuses on education, standardization, colonialism, imperialism, state and nation building in Israel/Palestine, Iraq, Jordan and the broader Middle East.
- Contact Info
Kalisman, Hilary Falb
Positions
- Associate Professor, History
- Assoc Faculty Director, Jewish Studies
- Endowed/Named Professor, Jewish Studies
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- Jewish History, Middle Eastern History, History of Education, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Palestinians, Standardized Testing,
Publications
selected publications
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book
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chapter
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journal article
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Apostles of knowledge: Feminine modernities and the travelling schoolmistresses of interwar Iraq.
Gender & History.
2026
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Israel.
Middle East Journal, The.
2025
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The historiography of education in the modern Middle East.
History of Education.
311-329.
2023
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"A World of Tomorrow": Diaspora Intellectuals and Liberal Thought in the 1950s.
Journal of Palestine Studies.
92-107.
2021
- “Statecraft by Stealth: Secret Intelligence and British Rule in Palestine,” by Steven B. Wagner; and “Britain’s Pacification of Palestine: The British Army, the Colonial State, and the Arab Revolt, 1936–1939”. JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY. 2021
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Cyrus Schayegh. The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2017). Pp. 496. $49.95 cloth. ISBN 9780674088337..
Review of Middle East Studies.
428-431.
2018
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“The next generation of cultivators”: teaching agriculture in Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan (1920-1960).
Histoire de l'Education.
143-164.
2017
- Review of Marwa Elshakry Reading Darwin in Arabic: 1860-1960. Arab Studies Journal. 181-181. 2016
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Bursary Scholars at the American University of Beirut: Living and Practising Arab Unity.
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.
599-617.
2015
- Pedagogical paradox: Education and Internationalization in the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia. Kufa Review. 53-53. 2013
- Book Review: Egypt, The Moment of Change. Insight Turkey. 215-217. 2011
- The Little Persian Agent in Palestine: Husayn Ruhi, British Intelligence, and World War I. 65-65. 2006
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Apostles of knowledge: Feminine modernities and the travelling schoolmistresses of interwar Iraq.
Gender & History.
2026
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley 2015
- B.A., Brown University 2006
awards and honors
International Activities
geographic focus
- http://dbpedia.org/page/Palestine Geographic Region
- France Country
- Israel Country
- Jordan Country
- United Kingdom Country
- western Asia Transnational Region