K.M.J. (Karène) Sanchez-Summerer, Prof

PhD supervision: I welcome PhDs proposals on relational history of Palestine (1870-1948), cultural diplomacy in the Middle East, interconfesional relations in the Levant and the Middle East (1870-1960), Middle Eastern communities in Europe (1870-1960)

BA and MA seminars (2022-2024) -selection: ‘Understanding Sectarianism and minorities in the Middle East. A Global approach’, ‘Culture as soft power in the MENA region’, ‘Europe in the Middle East, The Middle East in Europe’

MA seminars (2010-2022)- selection: ‘Talking to the Levant’. Europeans’ Cultural and Linguistic policies in the Middle East (1900-1970), 'Middle Eastern Christianities’, 'Language ideologies, policies, identities in the Middle East'

PhDs:

PhD supervisor, José Rafael Medeiros Coelho (November 2023-November 2027), ‘Ottoman Arab Migrations to Latin America (Antioch-São Paulo): Mapping Transnational Hubs, Networks, and Cultural Heritage (19-20 centuries)’, ICOG funded PhD

 PhD supervisor, Gülnur Demirci (September 2024- September 2028), ‘Embodied Memory in Post-traumatic Communities. The Circassians - A Transnational Analysis’, Double Degree with Malmö University-Sweden, Malmö- Groningen University fully funded

PhD supervisor, Brandon Johnson (March 2024 - March 2028), ‘Ottoman Violence and the Forging of U.S. Foreign Policy: Missionary Diplomats in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1880–1900’.

PhD supervisor, Elise Aghazarian (September 2024- September 2028), ‘The Christian neighbourhood of Jerusalem (1937-1987)’

PhD co-supervisor, Bana Madi, Double degree with American University of Beirut (September 2024- September 2028), AUB-Groningen University fully funded

PhD supervisor, Roy Shukrun, co-supervisors: Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah (RUG) and Christopher Silver (McGill University) (Autumn 2020- 2024), ‘Transnational migration and the emergence of a global Moroccan Jewish diaspora in the 20th century’

PhD supervisor, Eline Eerlijk, co-supervisor: Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah (RUG) (February 2024-February 2028), ‘The emergence of racial antisemitism among the European population in French Algeria from the post-war period (1943) until Algeria's independence (1962) in the popular press’.

PhD co-supervisor with Prof. dr. Jörg Seiler (January 2017- January 2022), Bernhard Kronegger, The Catholic Church in Palestine. International Politics, Interreligious Relations and Internal Struggles in the Interwar Period (1918-1939)’, Universität Erfurt, Germany, defended 14 September 2023 (Groningen University)

PhD co-supervisor with Prof. dr. H Murre van den Berg, Tijmen Baarda, ‘Arabic and Aramaic in Iraq. Language and Christian Commitment to the Arab Nationalist Project (1910-1950)’, defended 8 January 2020 (Leiden University)

PhD co-supervisor with Prof. dr. H Murre van den Berg, Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah, ‘Baghdadi Jewish Networks in Hashemite Irak: Jewish Transnationalism in the Age of Nationalism’, supervisor: Prof. dr. H. Murre-van den Berg and Prof. dr. Daniel Schroeter (Michigan University), defended 10^th January 2019 (Leiden University)

PhD co-supervisor with Prof. dr. M. Koosmann (September 2019- September 2023), CSC-Leiden University scholarship, Kefan Bao, ‘The Construction of Identity by Linguistic References in the Arab World: A Comparative Study of Language Ideology and Practice between Berbers in Maghreb and Maronites in Levant’

Post-doc supervision

E. Marteijn (September 2024- September 2028), ‘Rituals in Flux: Diasporic religion of Christian Palestinian refugees, 1948-present’

S. Zananiri (September 2018- April 2022), ‘Between the Holy Land and the Mediterranean: the Arab Orthodox community of Palestine’

K. Papastathis (September 2018- August 2022), ‘Between Athens and Constantinople, the Greek Orthodox community in Palestine (1920-1950)’

O. Calafato (July 2021-February 2022), ‘Snapshots by the Seaside: Connected Histories of the Mediterranean in the 1920s and 1930s” (photographic representations of an emerging seaside culture across the Eastern Mediterranean region in the 1920s and 1930s)

S. Irakleos (September 2021-February 2022), ‘J. Reddaway personal archives, the formative years of the Director of the Arab-British Center and Deputy Commissioner General of the UNRWA’

A. Turiano (September 2021- Spring 2022), ‘Gender, philanthropy, and Empire: the Italian ANSMI in Ottoman and Mandate Levant’

S. Agsous-Bienstein (January-May 2021), ‘Pre-1948 archives, Palestinian cultural agents and Khalil Sakakini’s educational projects’

S. Irving (October-December 2019), ‘Linguistic and cultural policies in Ottoman/ British Mandate Palestine (1900-1948): the non-elites’ sources’ 

C. Nassif (September 2018- August 2019), ‘Between the Holy Land and the World: the Melkite community of Palestine (1920-1950)’

C. Rubio (February-April 2020), ‘Arabic, French and the national dilemma in Mandate Palestine and the first years of the Israel State’K. Papastathis (September 2018- August 2022), ‘Between Athens and Constantinople, the Greek Orthodox community in Palestine (1920-1950)’