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Andrew Patrick

Assistant Professor of History

Andrew Patrick is a historian of the relationship between the United States and the Middle East, focusing on the early twentieth century. His latest book, entitled America's Forgotten Middle East Initiative: The King-Crane Commission of 1919, came out in 2015. He is the editor of the online journal New Middle Eastern Studies and is an active member of the working group “World War I in the Middle East and North Africa.” He has taught at the high school and university level in Maine, Turkey, Britain, and the United Arab Emirates. Before teaching, he worked for the National Park Service in Alaska, where he wrote the book The Most Striking of Objects: The Totem Poles of Sitka National Historical Park. Andrew’s latest book project focuses on the relationship between the United States and the Ottoman Empire during World War I era.

Education

PhD, Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester, 2011

MSc, Education, University of Southern Maine, 2005

MA, Modern History, University College London, 1997

BA, History/Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1996

Selected Publications

• America’s Forgotten Middle East Initiative: The King Crane Commission of 1919 (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015).
  • Reviews: H-Diplo Roundtable Review, Vol. XVII, No. 21 (2016); Middle East Media and Book Review Online, Vol. 4, Issue 1 (January 2016); Diplomacy and Statecraft, Vol. 27, Issue 3 (2016).
• “Jesus Optional: The Ottoman education regulations of 1914 and the shifting institutional identity of the Syrian Protestant College,” (First World War Studies, forthcoming, 2016)
• “‘These people know about us’: A Reconsideration of Attitudes Towards the United States in World War I-Era Greater Syria,” Middle Eastern Studies, (Vol. 50, No. 3 (2014)), 397-411.
• “The Zionist Commission and the Jewish Communities of Greater Syria in 1919,” The Jerusalem Quarterly, special double issue entitled “Palestine in World War One” (Vol. 56/57, winter 2013/spring 2014), 107-117.
• The Most Striking of Objects: The Totem Poles of Sitka National Historical Park (Anchorage, AK: U.S. Department of the Interior, 2002). [Available at the Hathi Trust Digital Library, http://www.hathitrust.org/.]
  • Reviews: CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2004); Pacific Northwest Quarterly,Vol. 95, No. 3 (2004).

Courses Taught

History of the Modern Middle East, World War I: Global Perspectives, The United States and the Middle East, The Teaching of History and the Social Sciences, Early World History, Modern World History, Global Culture in History, Modern United States History