Dr. Graham Pitts is a Croft Assistant Professor of History and International Studies in the Department of History and Croft Institute for International Studies at the University of Mississippi.
Research Interests
Dr. Graham Pitts's research interests include Middle East History, Eenvironmental History, Famine, Food Studies, Migration, War and Society, Health and Disease.
Biography
Dr. Graham Pitts grew up in North Carolina, between the city of Greensboro and the small town of West End. He was educated in Guilford County’s public school system. For his undergraduate degree, he attended Earlham, a small Quaker college in eastern Indiana. Study abroad experiences brought him to Mexico and Palestine. He completed his graduate studies in history at Georgetown University.
Before coming to the University of Mississippi, Graham held faculty positions at North Carolina State, Georgetown, and George Washington. His research considers global environmental history and the Middle East, with a particular focus on modern Lebanon.
Publications
Articles:
“A Hungry Population Stops Thinking About Resistance: Class, Famine, and Lebanon’s World War I Legacy.” Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 7, no. 2 (2020): 217-236.
“The Ecology of Migration: Remittances in World War I Mount Lebanon.” Arab Studies Journal 26, no. 2 (Fall 2018): 102-129.
Courses Taught
- INST 200 Thinking Globally
- INST 209 Middle Eastern Studies
- INST 315 Topics in Middle Eastern Studies
- HST 550 Historical Methods & Philosophy of Hist
Education
Ph.D. History, Georgetown University (2016)