Assistant Professor of History
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Departments and Programs
- History
- African and African American Studies
- Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures
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Contact Information
Email: george.r.trumbull.iv@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-3425
Hinman Box: HB 6107
Education
- A.B. Princeton University; M.A. Yale University; M.Phil. Yale University; Ph.D. Yale University
Areas of Expertise
- North Africa; Islamic Africa; Africa in Global Contect; European Colonialism; Economic, Environmental, and Resource (especially water) History
Selected Works
- Book: An Empire of Facts: Colonial Power, CUltural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914 (2009)
- “‘Au Coin des Rues Diderot et Moïse:’ Religious Politics and the Ethnography of Sufism in Colonial Algeria, 1871-1906,” French Historical Studies , 30:3 (special issue, “France and Islam,” 2007) 451-484.
- “Africa: French Colonies,” Encyclopedia of Race and Racism , J H Moore (ed.), 1 (2007) 28-34.
Current Projects
- Book: Land of Thirst, Land of Fear: A History of Water in the Sahara from Empire to Oil
- Book Chapter: “Body of Work: Water and the Reimagining of the Saharan Economy in the Era of Decolonization,” in Diana K. Davis and Edmund Burke III, Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East: History, Policy, Power, and Practice (forthcoming) __
