https://sah.hcommons.org/members/sfahrenthod/activity/ Activity feed for Stacy Fahrenthold. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:53:59 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 4d92a17463c42d771b79af48dd13d7ad https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1918043/ Sat, 10 May 2025 01:15:47 -0400 0 8676a25bc0686f4974ed6914b2b92d15 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1858076/ Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:12:29 -0400 0 4896a3c9f24f19bb0a458ff75d3a72ce https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1849586/ Fri, 16 Jun 2023 14:52:29 -0400 0 c255e54814da2e68e8de5f55e61d138d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1823534/ Tue, 22 Nov 2022 18:10:26 -0500 0 2eeb116fbd2a1cc86ce9c5de3bb9810e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1790949/ Fri, 19 Aug 2022 02:23:58 -0400 The concept of return is an intoxicating analytic for scholars, for several reasons. The idea that migrants return home creates opportunities to reclaim them from the hegemony of the bordered nation-state. For diaspora theorists, return works as a rebuttal to the field’s preoccupations with exile and loss. Migrants return home all the time, t…[Read more]

]]> 0 10fd41ef858ea8356dd05f3a5a32a69d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1790948/ Fri, 19 Aug 2022 02:23:38 -0400 The concept of return is an intoxicating analytic for scholars, for several reasons. The idea that migrants return home creates opportunities to reclaim them from the hegemony of the bordered nation-state. For diaspora theorists, return works as a rebuttal to the field’s preoccupations with exile and loss. Migrants return home all the time, t…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff4c4c805da08b3648e8c3888501a643 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1790847/ Thu, 18 Aug 2022 03:47:14 -0400 The concept of return is an intoxicating analytic for scholars, for several reasons. The idea that migrants return home creates opportunities to reclaim them from the hegemony of the bordered nation-state. For diaspora theorists, return works as a rebuttal to the field’s preoccupations with exile and loss. Migrants return home all the time, t…[Read more]

]]> 0 5e3e823414442b858e06626c6c7792d1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1776204/ Tue, 29 Mar 2022 14:33:50 -0400 0 e46df699019ee320401212f4e46cb99e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1772022/ Tue, 15 Feb 2022 20:08:27 -0500 0 a00565162c61a71bc68296f5daedf928 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1771842/ Mon, 14 Feb 2022 21:19:27 -0500 0 f2dddf52da106e57527de11cfa09cff4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1769498/ Fri, 28 Jan 2022 03:36:00 -0500 0 56af21694820d9dd531ccb32716ba9ba https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764607/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 02:26:38 -0500 In the Arabic-speaking mahjar (diaspora), the plight of the working poor was the focus of women’s philanthropy. Scholarship on welfare relief in the interwar Syrian, Lebanese, and Palestinian diaspora currently situates it within a gendered politics of benevolence. This article reconsiders that frame and argues for a class-centered reassessment o…[Read more]

]]> 0 91b96671f10133b0c76c648a440e8ad3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764606/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 02:26:30 -0500 In the Arabic-speaking mahjar (diaspora), the plight of the working poor was the focus of women’s philanthropy. Scholarship on welfare relief in the interwar Syrian, Lebanese, and Palestinian diaspora currently situates it within a gendered politics of benevolence. This article reconsiders that frame and argues for a class-centered reassessment o…[Read more]

]]> 0 3bbbe596491a28ade8cdd7416b526e11 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764591/ Mon, 03 Jan 2022 22:21:26 -0500 In the Arabic-speaking mahjar (diaspora), the plight of the working poor was the focus of women’s philanthropy. Scholarship on welfare relief in the interwar Syrian, Lebanese, and Palestinian diaspora currently situates it within a gendered politics of benevolence. This article reconsiders that frame and argues for a class-centered reassessment o…[Read more]

]]> 0 610e2d34d5d82c195336e9b5df0339d8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1762114/ Mon, 20 Dec 2021 23:01:00 -0500 0 0ceb8e50ecaa3458358c9aac7a49e25b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1737499/ Thu, 06 May 2021 22:28:38 -0400 0 0d94a223342e1cd2955652765c9c3de7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1734141/ Tue, 06 Apr 2021 19:08:27 -0400 This course explores histories of forced migration in the Middle East and South Asia during the twentieth century. Looking at the role of colonialism, partition, and social unrest in driving the movement of refugees, IDPs, and stateless peoples, we examine how everyday struggles for refugee protection, asylum, and citizenship influence regional…[Read more]

]]> 0 5800a25ab780af3a641b8dc119d87f78 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1725581/ Sat, 30 Jan 2021 18:08:44 -0500 0 0285dbcbfc044676ee806bcdce0df0af https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1720724/ Wed, 23 Dec 2020 23:02:44 -0500 0 8c6cabff960f8d1f7796ac5864208b82 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1713536/ Sun, 18 Oct 2020 02:24:14 -0400 Unofficial Description: In Arab American studies, it’s long been understood that Syrian immigrants became “legally white” in 1915’s George Dow v United States. This access to whiteness was critical in getting access to US citizenship. However, US laws governing Syrian racial status also bore implications beyond the US context. Starting with Dow…[Read more]

]]> 0 8041fb37908a75783799baf659413d61 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1713535/ Sun, 18 Oct 2020 02:24:08 -0400 Unofficial Description: In Arab American studies, it’s long been understood that Syrian immigrants became “legally white” in 1915’s George Dow v United States. This access to whiteness was critical in getting access to US citizenship. However, US laws governing Syrian racial status also bore implications beyond the US context. Starting with Dow…[Read more]

]]> 0 5a90286085b8665a37c53af7f3b5e268 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1713534/ Sun, 18 Oct 2020 02:23:57 -0400 Unofficial Description: In Arab American studies, it’s long been understood that Syrian immigrants became “legally white” in 1915’s George Dow v United States. This access to whiteness was critical in getting access to US citizenship. However, US laws governing Syrian racial status also bore implications beyond the US context. Starting with Dow…[Read more]

]]> 0 b650cc6615ae9c9223027b25df847915 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1713507/ Sat, 17 Oct 2020 16:32:33 -0400 Description: In Arab American studies, it’s long been understood that Syrian immigrants became “legally white” in 1915’s George Dow v United States. This access to whiteness was critical in getting access to US citizenship. However, US laws governing Syrian racial status also bore implications beyond the US context. Starting with Dow (1915), this…[Read more]

]]> 0 6a10907599a11e989f45e186db4b7e5d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1708505/ Tue, 15 Sep 2020 17:32:37 -0400 0 d96a68079094f0d4d65f0fcd513d4542 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1680694/ Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:27:59 -0400 This graduate reading seminar examines some of the historical literature on migration in a global perspective, focusing on the nineteenth century through the present. It focuses on theoretical approaches to the study of migration as well as on case studies, moving between longue-durée and comparative issues on the one hand and local effects of…[Read more]

]]> 0 99a6ec06194ff86bd859cacb6be68c53 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1680693/ Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:27:53 -0400 This graduate reading seminar examines some of the historical literature on migration in a global perspective, focusing on the nineteenth century through the present. It focuses on theoretical approaches to the study of migration as well as on case studies, moving between longue-durée and comparative issues on the one hand and local effects of…[Read more]

]]> 0 99a6ec06194ff86bd859cacb6be68c53 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1680692/ Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:27:53 -0400 This graduate reading seminar examines some of the historical literature on migration in a global perspective, focusing on the nineteenth century through the present. It focuses on theoretical approaches to the study of migration as well as on case studies, moving between longue-durée and comparative issues on the one hand and local effects of…[Read more]

]]> 0 99d65a7444ed88d6156561ffba729977 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1680615/ Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:23:29 -0400 This graduate reading seminar examines some of the historical literature on migration in a global perspective, focusing on the nineteenth century through the present. It focuses on theoretical approaches to the study of migration as well as on case studies, moving between longue-durée and comparative issues on the one hand and local effects of…[Read more]

]]> 0 0689a471573920edbb69177efc8abdcb https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1671291/ Tue, 03 Dec 2019 17:10:50 -0500 0 2442e165daff84ac5ef9fc1b6b5bcf00 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666501/ Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:06:21 -0400 0 db21952e4871380d0cdc3a11620365c5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642067/ Sat, 08 Jun 2019 16:25:24 -0400 In the contemporary discourse on migration, it feels peculiarly seamless to discuss “bans and border walls” in a single breath. However, the global preoccupation with travel restriction and border security must not be taken as an inevitability. States arrive at bans and walls as preferred means of migration control as a result of making spe…[Read more]

]]> 0 de312f58968d80d8f3d7d9cdd3b934d1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642066/ Sat, 08 Jun 2019 16:25:23 -0400 In the contemporary discourse on migration, it feels peculiarly seamless to discuss “bans and border walls” in a single breath. However, the global preoccupation with travel restriction and border security must not be taken as an inevitability. States arrive at bans and walls as preferred means of migration control as a result of making spe…[Read more]

]]> 0 c46f22e6cfe7953f5bd0ab323ceb2797 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642025/ Sat, 08 Jun 2019 01:23:26 -0400 In the contemporary discourse on migration, it feels peculiarly seamless to discuss “bans and border walls” in a single breath. However, the global preoccupation with travel restriction and border security must not be taken as an inevitability. States arrive at bans and walls as preferred means of migration control as a result of making spe…[Read more]

]]> 0 26eace4389eef5282846f5e9b701e427 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641501/ Mon, 03 Jun 2019 16:26:08 -0400 Between 1880 and 1924, an estimated half million Arab migrants left the Ottoman Empire to live and work in the Americas. Responding to new economic forces linking the Mediterranean and Atlantic capitalist economies to one another, Arab migrants entered the manufacturing industries of the settler societies they inhabited, including industrial…[Read more]

]]> 0 de9f1620c1ccb1094d37f63d83c5d55f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641500/ Mon, 03 Jun 2019 16:26:04 -0400 Between 1880 and 1924, an estimated half million Arab migrants left the Ottoman Empire to live and work in the Americas. Responding to new economic forces linking the Mediterranean and Atlantic capitalist economies to one another, Arab migrants entered the manufacturing industries of the settler societies they inhabited, including industrial…[Read more]

]]> 0 39b36d30d3f2207e5becf1827d4fd81a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641499/ Mon, 03 Jun 2019 16:26:00 -0400 Between 1880 and 1924, an estimated half million Arab migrants left the Ottoman Empire to live and work in the Americas. Responding to new economic forces linking the Mediterranean and Atlantic capitalist economies to one another, Arab migrants entered the manufacturing industries of the settler societies they inhabited, including industrial…[Read more]

]]> 0 f044210de2110e05fe39afec0b8fd2a0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641498/ Mon, 03 Jun 2019 16:25:59 -0400 Between 1880 and 1924, an estimated half million Arab migrants left the Ottoman Empire to live and work in the Americas. Responding to new economic forces linking the Mediterranean and Atlantic capitalist economies to one another, Arab migrants entered the manufacturing industries of the settler societies they inhabited, including industrial…[Read more]

]]> 0 df1f17b3b85dee754af5a8b85f5ab66a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641433/ Sun, 02 Jun 2019 15:19:19 -0400 Between 1880 and 1924, an estimated half million Arab migrants left the Ottoman Empire to live and work in the Americas. Responding to new economic forces linking the Mediterranean and Atlantic capitalist economies to one another, Arab migrants entered the manufacturing industries of the settler societies they inhabited, including industrial…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e239be2ee0d03097cb64d537f678094 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641432/ Sun, 02 Jun 2019 15:06:28 -0400 0 77d91c6915a19717880deda7425a12ad https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1631008/ Mon, 04 Feb 2019 16:25:27 -0500 This dissertation traces the emergence of transnational political institutions among Arabophone Ottoman emigrants living in New York City, São Paulo, and Buenos Aires, and analyzes the development of a long-distance nationalist politics among emigrant activists during and after World War I. Using socially-produced primary materials written and…[Read more]

]]> 0 37465ad85a6ea115760cc09cf3887f12 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1631007/ Mon, 04 Feb 2019 16:25:24 -0500 This dissertation traces the emergence of transnational political institutions among Arabophone Ottoman emigrants living in New York City, São Paulo, and Buenos Aires, and analyzes the development of a long-distance nationalist politics among emigrant activists during and after World War I. Using socially-produced primary materials written and…[Read more]

]]> 0 9206de9c70b52784dabb7030529e946e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1631006/ Mon, 04 Feb 2019 16:25:21 -0500 This dissertation traces the emergence of transnational political institutions among Arabophone Ottoman emigrants living in New York City, São Paulo, and Buenos Aires, and analyzes the development of a long-distance nationalist politics among emigrant activists during and after World War I. Using socially-produced primary materials written and…[Read more]

]]> 0 5979a4f84d546b38603c05603e31516e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1630976/ Mon, 04 Feb 2019 02:49:29 -0500 This dissertation traces the emergence of transnational political institutions among Arabophone Ottoman emigrants living in New York City, São Paulo, and Buenos Aires, and analyzes the development of a long-distance nationalist politics among emigrant activists during and after World War I. Using socially-produced primary materials written and…[Read more]

]]> 0 34329e628ad4f75c6108d5fe2866522c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1628424/ Wed, 09 Jan 2019 07:00:33 -0500 0 104a2d379512ac374a71fb0ba898c1d4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615180/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:27:49 -0400 Part of a larger roundtable series on Arab American histories for the Journal of American Ethnic History.

]]> 0 57d43f502f7df590aea4e41cab1cf30a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615179/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:27:46 -0400 Part of a larger roundtable series on Arab American histories for the Journal of American Ethnic History.

]]> 0 ebed7c6b26c2d24a5afb0d4c496752f5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615178/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:27:45 -0400 Part of a larger roundtable series on Arab American histories for the Journal of American Ethnic History.

]]> 0 3776186b85adb0ae6fe9351eb3037fb5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1613855/ Tue, 24 Jul 2018 19:45:34 -0400 Part of a larger roundtable series on Arab American histories for the Journal of American Ethnic History.

]]> 0 9305dde527bbec8b073ee96d07ddb484 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1613852/ Tue, 24 Jul 2018 19:38:22 -0400 0 b23c3d5026c6419d7adfb2ee5251e4ee https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1580007/ Tue, 29 Aug 2017 01:21:59 -0400 This article argues that during World War I, the Syrian and Lebanese periodical press in the American mahjar created new space for transnational political activism. In São Paulo, Buenos Aires, and New York City, diasporic journalists and political activists nurtured a new nationalist narrative and political culture in the press. In a public…[Read more]

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