Shira Robinson

Shira Robinson

Shira Robinson

Associate Professor of History and International Affairs

Full-time Faculty


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Office Phone: 202-994-2457
Fax: 202-994-6231

Shira Robinson works on the social and cultural history of the Modern Middle East, with an emphasis on colonialism, citizenship, nationalism, and cultures of militarism after World War I. She joined GW in 2007 after two years of teaching at the University of Iowa and one year as Visiting Fellow at the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University. She received her B.A. in Middle Eastern and North African Studies from the University of Michigan and her M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Stanford University.

Dr. Robinson's research has been funded through the Fulbright Institute, the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, and the Palestinian American Research Center. She also spent a year at the Center for the Advanced Study of Arabic at the American University in Cairo. In 2006 her dissertation won the Halpern Biennial Dissertation Award from the Association for Israel Studies. Professor Robinson works on the social and cultural history of the Modern Middle East, with an emphasis on colonialism, citizenship, nationalism, and cultures of militarism after World War I.


History of the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries; colonialism, nationalism, and citizenship in the Arab Middle East; the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Ph.D., Stanford University

HIST 2805W Sophomore Seminar: Middle East

HIST 3811 The Middle East in the 20th Century

HIST 6001 Graduate Readings in Modern Middle Eastern History

HIST 6801 Topics in Middle Eastern History

  • Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel's Liberal Settler State (Stanford Univ. Pr, 2013),
  • "The Ghetto vs. the Gun." Review of Idith Zertal's Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood. In Middle East Report 240 (Fall 2006): 42-43.
  • "My Hairdresser Is a Sniper" in The Struggle for Sovereignty Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005. Joel Beinin and Rebecca L. Stein, eds., (Stanford Univ. Pr, 2006).