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Modern Iraqi history, US-Iraqi relations 1900-2000, archaeology and nationalism in the modern Middle East

Excerpt from recent WILLIAMS PRESS RELEASE:

"Magnus Bernhardsson's research is concerned with modern Iraqi history, U.S.-Iraqi relations 1900-2000, archaeology, and nationalism in the modern Middle East.

Winner of many academic honors, he graduated from the University of Iceland at Reykjavik in 1990 and received his Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1999. His doctoral dissertation, "Reclaiming a Plundered Past, Archaeology, and Nationalism in Modern Iraq, 1808-1941," was awarded the Theron Rockwell Field Prize in 2000.

At Williams since 2003, Bernhardsson has taught The United States and the Middle East, Iran and Iraq in the 20th Century, The Modern Middle East, and Apocalypse Now and Then: A Comparative History of Millenarian Movements, among others.

He is co-editor of "U.S.-Middle Eastern Encounters: Beyond the Stereotypes," author of "Reclaiming a Plundered Past: Archeology and Nationalism in Modern Iraq" and "Martyrs of Modernity: Religion and Politics in Iran and Iraq," which was nominated as the best non-fiction book of the year in 2005 by the Society of Icelandic Authors and Scholars. He is the author of numerous articles, conference papers, book reviews, and newspaper articles on Middle Eastern Affairs."