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' 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
Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean
From the publisher:
Melding the rural and the urban with the local, regional, and global, Levantine cuisine is a mélange of ingredients, recipes, and modes of consumption rooted in the Eastern Mediterranean. Making Levantine Cuisine provides much-needed scholarly attention to the region’s culinary cultures while teasing apart the tangled histories and knotted migrations of food. Akin to the region itself, the culinary repertoires that constitute Levantine cuisine endure and transform—are unified but not uniform.
Selected Article(s):
"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 2000 Thinking Globally
- INST 2090 Middle Eastern Studies
- INST 3150 Topics in Middle Eastern Studies
- HIST 3520 The Middle East Since 1914
- HIST 3550 Water in the Middle East
- HIST 5500 Historical Methods & Philosophy of History
Education
Ph.D. History, Georgetown University (2016)