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Dr Stephen Pascoe

Lecturer

PhD in History, The University of California, Irvine (2019)

MPhil, Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne (2011)

Graduate Diploma in Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne (2009)

Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours), Majors in History and Arabic, The University of Melbourne (2004)

Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Humanities & Languages

I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Laureate Centre for History & Population. Trained as a historian and urban planner, my research has focused on histories of cities, infrastructure and imperialism in the Modern Middle East and North Africa, as well as the Global French Empire. I am currently revising my PhD dissertation for publication under the provisional title of Contesting Concessions: Infrastructure, Imperialism and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Syria. I was a co-editor of the 2015 volume Making Modernity from the Mashriq to the Maghreb,a collection of essays on the meanings of modernity in the Middle East. My work has been published in Radical History Review,Arena,Al Jazeera,JadaliyyaԻThe Conversation. My new research project, through the Laureate Centre for History and Population at UNSW, seeks to chart the history of population as an object of state-formation, policy and debate in the Middle East and North Africa across the twentieth century.
E-mail
stephen.pascoe@unsw.edu.au
  • Books | 2022
    Fernandes C; Pascoe S, 2022, Sub-Imperial Power Australia in the International Arena, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne,
  • Book Chapters | 2020
    Pascoe S, 2020, 'Approaching Historiography', in Beauchamp T (ed.), Humanities Core Handbook, XanEdu (for Humanities Core, UC-Irvine), pp. 85 - 96
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Rey V; Pascoe S, 2020, 'Disappearing Minorities: Toponymical Identities and the Making of an Ethnographic Museum at the Azem Palace in Damascus', in Rey V (ed.), The Art of Minorities: Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North Africa, University of Edinburgh Press, Edinburgh, pp. 33 - 56
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Pascoe S; Rey V; James P, 2015, 'Introduction: Making Modernity from the Mashriq to the Maghreb', in Making Modernity from the Mashriq to the Maghreb, Arena Publications, North Carlton, pp. 1 - 13,
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Pascoe S, 2015, 'Making the Middle East Modern: Shifting Frameworks of History', in Pascoe S; Rey V; James P (ed.), Making Modernity from the Mashriq to the Maghreb, Arena Publications, North Carlton, pp. 14 - 30,
  • Edited Books | 2015
    Pascoe S; Rey V; James P, (eds.), 2015, Making Modernity from the Mashriq to the Maghreb, Arena Publications, North Carlton
  • Journal articles | 2019
    Pascoe S, 2019, 'A “Weapon of the Weak”: Electric Boycotts in the Arab Levant and the Global Contours of Interwar Anti-Imperialism', Radical History Review, pp. 116 - 141,
  • Conference Papers | 2012
    Pascoe S, 2012, 'The Death and Life of Beirut', in Urban Transformations: Booms, Busts and Other Catastrophes: Proceedings of the 11th Australasian Urban History, Planning History Conference, State Library of Western Australia, Perth, pp. 254 - 254, presented at Urban History Planning History, State Library of Western Australia, Perth, 05 February 2012 - 08 February 2012
    Conference Papers | 2010
    Pascoe S, 2010, 'An ‘Enlightened Urban Renewal’?: The University of Melbourne, The Housing Commission of Victoria and The Contest for Carlton in the 1960s', in Green Fields, Brown Fields, New Fields: Proceedings of the 10th Australasian Urban History, Planning History Conference, University of Melbourne, pp. 452 - 467, presented at Urban History Planning History, University of Melbourne, 07 February 2010 - 10 February 2010

2019: Recipient of the Alan Roberts Prize awarded by the Arena Foundation for "best essay related to ecology, social life, or a politics for the future"

2013: Recipient of the University of Melbourne's John Grice Prize for Best Research Thesis in the Architecture Building and Planning Faculty