For all periods, Druze voices remain largely obscured in the documentary record. While the uneven archival terrain (including the issue of access) is a general problem for historians of the Eastern Mediterranean, the obstacles to writing the history of Druze communities are particularly severe. ..
Graham Aumen Pitts and the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI)
Graham Aumen Pitts, the 2019-2020 American Druze Foundation Fellow at CCAS, was a postdoctoral teaching scholar from 2016 to 2018 at North Carolina State University’s International Studies program. He earned both his M.A. and Ph.D. from Georgetown University’s History Department and his B.A. from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. His dissertation was titled “Fallow Fields: Famine and the Making of Lebanon.”
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