|
 |
Faculty |
|
 |
| Bedross Der Matossian |
|
| Lecturer |
|
Bedross Der Matossian, born and raised in Jerusalem, is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he began his graduate studies in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. He completed his Ph.D. in Middle East History in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University in 2008. His dissertation, entitled “Ethnic Politics in Post-Revolutionary Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Arabs, and Jews in the Second Constitutional Period (1908-1909),” dealt exclusively with interethnic politics during the first year of the Second Constitutional Period (1908-1918), which led to a dramatic escalations of ethnic tensions culminating in the counterrevolution and the Adana massacres of 1909.
The research is a comparative study of the political history of the post-revolutionary period as viewed by three subordinate ethnic groups of the Empire: Armenians, Arabs, and Jews. The study, which covers a variety of geographic areas stretching from Istanbul to Anatolia, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine, and using more than half a dozen local languages, examines the impact of the revolution on the socio-political structure of the ethnic groups and the way it defined the political attitude of both the government and the these groups toward each other.
Bedross’s other areas of interest include Ethnic Politics in the Middle East, Development of Public Sphere in the Ottoman Empire/Modern Middle East, Social and Economic History of the Middle East 19th and 20th century, comparative study of Ethnic groups in the Middle East, and Ethnic Conflict in the Middle East. At MIT, he will be teaching The World Since 1492; Islam, the Middle East, and the West; The Middle East in the 20th Century; and Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
|