U of U Podcast Features History PhD Student
Brad Dennis, who graduated in the Fall of 2015 with his Ph.D. in History from the
University of Utah this December, discusses the origins of interethnic and interreligious
conflict at the birth of the modern Middle East from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire.
The conflicts he describes, instigated by foreign interventions and realizing a horrific
peak of violence in terrorism and the mistrust, discrimination, and eventual ethnic
cleansing that it engenders, provide a fascinating and almost eerily analogous comparison
to—and cautionary lesson about—contemporary events. This and other podcasts can be
accessed here.