The Faculty
Dr John-Paul Ghobrial
Biography:
He was born in New York City, and raised in southern California. He studied French and International Relations at Tufts University before being awarded a Marshall Scholarship for graduate study at St Antony's College, Oxford, where he completed an MPhil in Middle Eastern Studies in 2004. In 2010, he completed his PhD in the History Department at Princeton University. He came to Cambridge in 2009 when he was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Churchill College. From October 2011, he will join the Faculty as a Temporary Lecturer in early modern European history.
Subject groups/Research projects
Departments and Institutes
Teaching
His undergraduate teaching explores early modern Europe and its contacts with the wider world. For part I, he lectures and supervises for paper 16 on early modern European history. He also contributes to the teaching of part II, paper 14 on 'Material Culture in the Early Modern World'. In Lent 2012, he will be offering a set of lectures on 'Europe's encounter with the Ottoman world, 1453-1699'.
At the graduate level, he teaches an option for the MPhil in Early Modern History on 'Europe in the World: Thinking Globally in Early Modern History'. He is a co-convenor of the Early Modern European History seminar, along with Melissa Calaresu, William O'Reilly, and Ulinka Rublack.
Other Professional Activities
He is the organiser and chair of 'Storytelling and the Global Past: A Conversation with Natalie Zemon Davis and Amitav Ghosh' to take place at Cambridge in March 2012. For more information and booking details, see http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1899/ .