Authors

John M. Willis

 

John M. Willis is assistant professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research area is the social and cultural history of the modern Middle East and the Indian Ocean. He is particularly interested in the relationship between state power and the geographical imagination, both as part of colonial modernity and movements of Islamic reform. He is the author of Unmaking North and South: Cartographies of the Yemeni Past, 1857-1934 (Columbia, 2012). His new research investigates debates over the future Islamic political community in the interwar period in the Arab world and South Asia.

ARTICLES BY John M. Willis