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Professor Gelvin received his education at Columbia College (A.B. 1983), the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University (M.A. 1985), and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1992). Before coming to UCLA, Dr. Gelvin taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston College, and Harvard University. While at Harvard, he was recipient of the Certificate for Distinguished Teaching and was twice nominated for teaching awards by the Government Department. In 1998 he was chosen by the UCLA chapter of the Mortar Board Honor Society to receive the Faculty Excellence Award. He has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1999-2000) and the recipient of a U.C. President’s Fellowship in the Humanities (1999-2000). In 2002-3, he was Sheikh Zayed Visiting Professor of History at the American University in Beirut.
The focus of Dr. Gelvin’s research has been on the social and cultural history of the modern Middle East, particularly Greater Syria (the area of present-day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is the author of Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire (University of California Press, 1998), The Modern Middle East: A History (Oxford University, 2004), and The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and has contributed chapters to numerous edited volumes. His articles have appeared in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Global Development Studies, Beiruter Blaetter, The International History Review, Nations and Nationalism, World Affairs, International Journal of Middle East Studies, and The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. He is currently editing a volume entitled Religion and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire.
