Michael Gasper
Assistant Professor
(On Leave, Academic Year 2008-09)
Office: HGS 2685
Phone: (203) 432-6218
Email: michael.gasper@yale.edu
Professor Gasper (Ph.D., New York University, 2004) joined the Yale History faculty as a Middle Eastern specialist in 2005. He has been named a Carnegie Scholar for his most recent research project Re-Thinking Secularism and Sectarianism in the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). His first book, The Power of Representation: Publics, Peasants and Islam in Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2008), explores questions of nationalism and religious identity in intellectuals’ writing about peasants and how their constructions drew the social boundaries of modern Egypt. He is the author of “Public Deliberations of the Self in Fin-de-Siècle Egypt” in The Arab Intellectual and the Question of Modernity, ed. Dyala Hamza (Routledge, 2009) and "Abdallah Nadim, Islamic Reform, and 'Ignorant' Peasants: State-Building in Egypt?" Muslim Traditions and Modern Techniques of Power, ed. Armando Salvatore ed., Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam, vol. 3 (Lit Verlag, 2001). He has previously taught at NYU, York College of the City University of New York and Albright College.
