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Christine B. Lindner

About

Dr. Christine B. Lindner

Dr. Christine B. Lindner

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY

Education 

  • Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, 2009
  • M.A., Durham University, 2004
  • B.A., Gordon College, 2002

Publications 

  • 鈥淔rom George Tom in Cleveland, Ohio, to His Father Tannous Gergis, Mt. Lebanon, Syria:  Remittances as Transnational Relief During World War One.鈥 In , edited by Rob McCormick, Araceli Hern谩ndez-Laroche and Catherine Canino, (London: Routledge, 2021)
  • 鈥淲omen and Christianity in the Middle East.鈥 In , edited by Mitri Raheb and Mark A. Lamport, 398-413. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021)
  • Journal of Mediterranean Studies 27, no. 2 (2018), 133-148.
  • 鈥淔rom Foreign soil to the 示Ard of Beirut: A history of the American University of Beirut and the Anglo-American Cemetery鈥, Nadia El Cheikh, Leila Choueiri and Bilal Orafli, eds., (Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 2016), 189-200.
  • Entangled Education: Foreign, National and Local schools in Ottoman Syria and Mandate Lebanon (19th-20th Centuries), Beiruter Texte und Studien 137: Herausgegeben vom Orient-Institute Beirut (Beirut: Ergon Verlag W眉rzburg in Kommission, 2016). Co-edited with Julia Hauser and Esther M枚ller.
  • 鈥淩ahil Ata al-Bustani: Wife and Mother of the Nahda,鈥 in: Adel Beshara, ed., Butrus al-Bustani: Spirit of the Age (Melbourne: IPHOENIX Publishing, 2014): 49-67.  
  • 鈥淭he Flexibility of Home: Investigating the Spaces and Definitions for the Home and Family Employed by the ABCFM Missionaries in Ottoman Syria from 1823 to 1860,鈥 in: Mehmet A. Dogan and Heather Sharkey, eds. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2011): 33-62.
  • 鈥,鈥 NEST Theological Review, 32, no. 2 (2011): 71-96.
  • 鈥溾業n this religion I will live, and in this religion I will die鈥: Performativity and the Protestant Identity in Late Ottoman Syria,鈥 Chronos 22 (2010): 22-48.
  • Mission & Social Sciences 23, no. 1 (2010): 7-31.

Digital Publications and Podcasts  

  • ,鈥 90 Second narratives, season 3, ep 8. Podcast episode. (5 October 2020)
  • 鈥溾楤urj Bird鈥 and the Beirut Mission Compound: Researching Women in the Protestant Church of Ottoman Syria,鈥 Presbyterian Historical Society Blog (31 May 2016).
  • with Ellen Fleischmann, hosted by Susanna Ferguson, Ottoman History Podcast (12 March 2016)
  • Anglo-American Cemetery Website (14 July 2015)
  • Anglo-American Cemetery Website (11 May 2015).
  • 鈥淧iecing Together the Fragmented History of Esther Mushriq Haddad," AMEWS E-Bulletin 1 (January 2014): 1-3
  • digital exhibition, Preserving Protestant Heritage in the Middle East Website, (21 October 2013)
  •   NEST Library blog (9 July 2013).

Courses Taught  

  • World Civilizations I
  • Understanding Global History
  • Survey of World Religions
  • Global History of Islam to 1800
  • Modern Middle East
  • Honors Seminar in World History I
  • Introduction to the Study of Religions            

Research Interests 

  • Middle East History;
  • Ottoman History;
  • Lebanon and Syria;
  • Protestantism in the Middle East;
  • Christianity in the Middle East;
  • Women鈥檚 History;
  • Historic Cemeteries;
  • Digital History

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