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CURRICULUM VITA A/O Feb CURRICULUM VITA a/o Feb. 04, 2019 Name: Edmund Burke, III Date of Birth: July 30, 1940 Address: Merrill College Citizenship: American University of California Marital Status: Married Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Wife, Carolyn; one child EDUCATION B.A. University of Notre Dame, June 1962 M.A. Princeton University, June 1965 Ph.D. Princeton University, June 1970 (joint degree: Near Eastern Studies and History) ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS Graduated from Notre Dame cum laude; at Princeton: Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1962-63; Danforth Fellow, 1963-65; NDEA-related Fulbright-Hays Fellow, 1965-67; National Defense Foreign Language Fellow, 1967-68; Carnegie Fellow, 1969-70; Social Science Research Council grantee, 1973-74, summer 1975; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, summer 1978; National Science Foundation grantee, 1981; N.E.H. Fellowship, 1984-85; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow, 1989-90; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, summer 1997; Sabbagh Lecturer in Middle East Studies (University of Arizona, Tucson), February 21-22, 2002; Keynote address, World History Association annual meetings, June 2003; Presidential Chair in World History, July 2003-December 2007; Carson Endowed Lecture in History, (Oregon State University), 2009. Fernand Braudel Fellow in History and Civilization, European University Institute (Florence), Fall 2011; Keynote address, the Qualicum History Conference, The University of Victoria, British Columbia (Canada), 2013; Concluding Address, International Conference on the Idea of the Mediterranean, Center for Italian Studies, SUNY Stony Brook, 2015; Honorable Mention, American Institute for Maghrib Studies L. Carl Brown Book Prize 2015; Farhat J. Ziadeh Distinguished Lecture in Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Washington, 2016. LANGUAGES Read, write, and speak French well; read and speak Arabic; read Spanish and Italian. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research Associate, Committee for the Comparative Study of New Nations, Univ. of Chicago, 1969-70; Visiting Research Fellow, Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College, Oxford University, 1980; Director, Comparative and International Studies Research Group, UC Santa Cruz, 1980-84; Co-Organizer, Conference on "Islamic Political Movements," Middle East Center, University of California, Berkeley, May 1981; Organizer, N.S.F. Conference on "Global Crises and Social Movements," UC Santa Cruz, October 1981; Member, School of Social Sciences, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, 1989-90, Spring 1996.; Fall 2006; Fall 2007; Coordinator, Social 2 Movements Research group of Center for the Study of Global Transformations, Social Science Division, UC Santa Cruz, 1992-94; Organizer, UC Humanities Institute Conference on "Beyond Orientalism," UC Santa Cruz, October 1993; Resident Fellow, UC Humanities Research Institute (UC Irvine) “Islamic Modernities in an Era of Globalization,” Winter 2000; Member, Board of Directors, World History Workshop, a UC Multi-Campus Research Group 2000-present; Chercheur Invité, Maison mediterranéenne des sciences de l'Homme/CNRS (Aix-en-Provence) Nov. 2000; Director, Center for World History, UCSC (July 2003-June 2014); Fernand Braudel Senior Researcher, European University Institute, Florence (Italy), Fall 2011. 2 3 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1968-2010. Current rank: Professor Emeritus. Visiting Lecturer, Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College, Oxford University, spring 1980. Visiting Professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, spring 1981. Directeur d'études invités, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), 1985. Director, N.E.H. Summer Institute for College Teachers, "Rethinking Europe/Rethinking World History, 1500-1750," Summer 1995. Director, N. E. H. Summer Institute for College Teachers “The Environment and World History, 1500-1750," Summer 1998. Visiting Professor of History, Sydney University (Australia) July-December 1998. Organizer and Co-Chair, Mediterranean Studies Organized Research Group, IHR, 2001 – 2006. Summer Co-Director, “World History For Us All,” A project to develop an on-line model world history curriculum, San Diego State University (Summer 2001, 2002, 2003). Visiting Professor of Middle East Studies, American University at Beirut (Lebanon) Fall, 2004. Director, N. E. H. Summer Seminar for Teachers “Production and Consumption in World History, 1500-2000," Summer 2009 and Summer 2011. TEACHING FIELDS Middle Eastern History, 1750 to present Mediterranean History since 1492 World History, 1500-present World Environmental History North African History, 1800-present French Colonial History ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Senior Preceptor for Academic Affairs, Merrill College, UC Santa Cruz, 1977-79. Director, Organized Research Group, Comparative and International Studies, UC Santa Cruz, 1980-83. Chair, Board of Studies in History, UC Santa Cruz, 1986-89. Director, Center for World History, UC Santa Cruz, 2003-. PUBLICATIONS Books Prelude to Protectorate in Morocco, 1860-1912: Patterns of Pre-Colonial Protest and Resistance (University of Chicago Press, 1976). World History The Big Eras: A Compact History of Humankind for Teachers and Students. Co- authored with Ross E. Dunn and David G. Christian, (Los Angeles: National Center for History in the Schools, 2009. Second edition, 2012. Ihtijaj wa-l-muqawama fi Maghrib ma qabl al-isti‘imar (1912-1860). (Ar. Translation of Prelude to Protectorate in Morocco) Tr. M. Aafif (Rabat: Université Muhammad V, 2013). The Ethnographic State: France, Morocco and Islam, 1890-1930. (Berkeley: UC Press, 2014). Edited Books Islam, Politics and Social Movements Co-edited with I. M. Lapidus. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988). 3 4 Global Crises and Social Movements: Artisans, Peasants, Populists and the World Economy (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1988). Gulf War Reader Co-edited with Faculty Against the War (Santa Cruz: Kinko’s, 1991). Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East (Berkeley and London: University of California Press and I.B. Tauris, 1993). Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam and World History by Marshall G.S. Hodgson. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East. Co-edited with David Yaghoubian. 2nd ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005). Genealogies of Orientalism: History, Theory, Politics. Co-edited with David Prochaska. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 2008). The Environment and World History 1500-2000. Co-edited with K. L. Pomeranz. (University of California Press, 2009). Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East Co-edited with Diana K. Davis. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011). Conceiving Mozambique by John A. Marcum. Co-edited with Michael W. Clough. (New Yorkand London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Islam and World History: The Ventures of Marshall Hodgson Co-edited with Robert L. Mankin. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2018). Articles 1. "Morocco and the Near East: Reflections on Some Basic Differences," European Journal of Sociology (Paris), X (1969), 70-94. 2. "Recent Books on Colonial Algerian History," Middle Eastern Studies, VII (1971), 241-250. 3. "Parties and Elites in North African Politics: Algeria and Morocco," Africa Today, XVIII (1971), 50-59. 4. "Pan-Islam and Moroccan Resistance to French Colonial Penetration: 1900-1912," Journal of African History, XIII (1972), 97-118. 5. "The Moroccan Ulama, 1860-1912: An Introduction," in Nikki Keddie (ed.), Scholars, Saints and Sufis: Muslim Religious Institutions Since 1500 (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1972), 93-125. 6. "The Image of the Moroccan State in French Ethnological Literature: A New Look at the Origins of Lyautey's Berber Policy," in Ernest Gellner and Charles Micaud (eds.), Arabs and Berbers: From Tribe to Nation in North Africa (New York: D. C. Heath; London: Duckworth, 1972), 175-199. 7. Obituary. "In Memoriam. Roger Le Tourneau, 1907-1971," International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, III (1972), 361-363. 8. "A Comparative View of French Native Policies in Morocco and Syria," Middle Eastern Studies, IX (1973), 175-186. 9. "Rural Resistance and Popular Protest in Morocco: A Study of the Tribal Rebellion of 1911," Melanges Roger Le Tourneau, Special Issue of Revue de l'Occident Musulman et de la Méditérranée, Nos. 13-14 (1973), 193-206. 10. "Toward a History of the Maghrib," Middle Eastern Studies (London), Vol. II, No. 3 (1975), 306-323. 4 5 11. "Moroccan Resistance, Pan-Islam, and German War Strategy, 1914-1918," Francia (Munich), III (1976), 434-464. 12. "Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth," Daedalus 104, 1 (1976), 127-135. Reprinted in Sin Nombre (Puerto Rico), VIII, 1 (1977), 40-51. 13. "Fez, the Setting Sun of Islam: A Study of the Politics of Colonial Ethnography," The Maghreb Review, Vol. 2, No. 4 (1977), 1-7. 14. "Mouvements sociaux et mouvements de resistance au Maroc: La Grande Siba de la Chaouia, 1902-1906," Hespéris-Tamuda (Rabat), XVII (1976-1977), 149-163. Reprinted in Actes du Premier Congrès d'Histoire et de la Civilisation du Maghreb Vol. 2 (Tunis, 1979), 183-194. 15. "Islamic History as World History: Marshall Hodgson and The Venture of Islam," International Journal of Middle East Studies, X, 2 (1979), 241-264. Reprinted in "Islamic History as World History: Marshall G.S. Hodgson and The Venture of Islam," in E. Burke, III (ed.) Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam and World History
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