Annie Greene | Assistant Professor
Annie Greene
Assistant Professor
CTIHB 213
About
Annie Greene is an intellectual and cultural historian of the modern Middle East.
She is interested in the Ottoman Empire quite broadly, and Iraq, in particular. Her
scholarship focuses on the Nahda (the Arab Renaissance) of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the
debates and ideas that comprised it, and the communities of intellectuals within its
networks. Her current book project, Eastern Lights: The Arab Renaissance in Iraq examines this intellectual production and consumption in Iraq, challenging present
understandings of who, what, where, when, why and how Nahda intellectuals were writing. She has also published on gender history and histories
of Jews of the Islamic world. She treats the Iraqi Jewish community as a part of,
not apart from, the Ottoman and Indian Ocean world intellectual and cultural networks
she traces. Her next book project is about the first newspaper in Iraq, Ha-Dover (1863-1871), which was written in the Hebrew script.
Education
- BA, International Development Studies, McGill University
- MA, Near & Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS, University of London
- PhD, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, The University of Chicago
Research Focus
Intellectual history; Ottoman Empire; Arab World; Arab Renaissance (Nahda); Iraq; Islamic thought; Press, print, & book history; Languages; Gender; Jews of the Islamic World; Citizenship; Nationalism; Modernity
Key Publications
“The Laws of Women and the Insecurities of Men: Regulating Modern Jewish Gender Performance in Baghdad,” in Longing and Belonging: Jews of the Modern Islamic World. Nancy E. Berg and Dina Danon, eds. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
2025, 94-116.
“‘Eastern’ Print Modernities and the Jewish Newspaper of Ottoman Baghdad,” Jewish Quarterly Review 114, no. 4 (Fall 2024): 473-478.
“The Pioneers of Print in the Ottoman Province of Mosul,” Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World 14, no. 1-2 (June 2020): 51-68.
“Burying a Rabbi in Baghdad: The Limits of Ottomanism for Ottoman Iraqi Jews in the
Late-Nineteenth Century,” Journal of Jewish Identities 12, no. 2 (July 2019), 97-123.
Nancy E. Berg and Annie Greene, “Thoughts about Neutralizing Gender: Strategies for Inclusion in the Language Classroom,” Hebrew Higher Education 22, no. 1 (2020).
Teaching
HIST 4490 – 001: Gender & Middle East History
HIST 4490 – 001: Jews of the Islamic World
HIST 4490 – 001: Islamic Thought
HIST 3910 - 004: History of Israel/Palestine
HIST 2300 - 001: America and the Middle East & North Africa
HIST 1501 - 001: World History since 1500
Awards
Visiting Research Fellowship, The University of Chicago, Neubauer Collegium for Culture
and Society, 2021-2022
Visiting Research Fellowship, The University of Pennsylvania, Herbert D. Katz Center
for Advanced Judaic Studies, 2018-2019
Research Fellowship, The Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TARII), 2016