From artifacts to people facts: Archaeologists, World War II, and the origins of Middle East area st...

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" From artifacts to people facts: Archaeologists, World War II, and the origins of Middle East area studies "

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	802935
Doc. No	:	TL48115
Call number	:	‭1655566307;‮ ‬3673917‬
Main Entry	:	Julio, Patricia B.
Title & Author	:	From artifacts to people facts: Archaeologists, World War II, and the origins of Middle East area studies
	:	\ Matthew August Kohlstedt
	:	McAlister, Melani
College	:	The George Washington University
Date	:	2015
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2015
field of study	:	American Studies
Page No	:	282
Note	:	Committee members: Cohen-Cole, Jamie; Guglielmo, Thomas A.; Khoury, Dina; Zimmerman, Andrew
Note	:	Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-51553-4
Abstract	:	This dissertation traces the complex factors that influenced the World War II-era transition of some archaeologists and physical anthropologists who studied the ancient Middle East into roles that impacted U.S. policy towards the Middle East. The first chapter focuses on the archaeological expeditions and disciplinary practices that first exposed these social scientists to the inhabitants of the region that came to be known as the Middle East. Their experiences during the 1920s and 1930s influenced the opinions they formed and would later put to political use. The second chapter traces the various roles they took on in service of the U.S. government during the Second World War. Although many academics performed a variety of duties during the war, they were all united by a common belief: that academic knowledge of foreign peoples was going to be necessary in the postwar world. The third chapter analyzes two attempts, at the University of Chicago and Princeton University, to institutionalize the teaching of knowledge about the modern Middle East. Both efforts failed to fully implement the visions of their founding scholars, who each attempted to modulate the impact of some of the negative practices they had witnessed during their wartime government work. The fourth chapter argues that one archaeologist who worked for the Central Intelligence Agency during the Cold War exemplifies the cozy manner in which scholars and the U.S. government collaborated during the postwar period. That chapter analyzes the modifications the scholar made to his published work on Iran, changes that were made in light of his government activities there.
Subject	:	American studies; Middle Eastern Studies; History
Descriptor	:	Social sciences;Central Intelligence Agency (CIA);Middle East area studies;Middle Eastern archaeology;Office of War Information (OWI);Oriental Institute;Propaganda;World War II
Added Entry	:	McAlister, Melani
Added Entry	:	The George Washington University
	:	American Studies