Faculty

Ellis Goldberg

Office: Smith 30
(206) 543-7197

goldberg@u.washington.edu

(Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley), associate professor, who joined the department in 1985, specializes in the study of Middle Eastern politics. From 1995-1999 he chaired the Middle East Center of the Jackson School of International Studies. His first book, Tinker, Tailor and Textile Worker (University of California Press, 1986), deals with the Egyptian labor movement. His most recent book is an edited collection of essays, The Social History of Labor in the Middle East (Westview Press, 1996). Other publications include work on Muslim political movements in Islam, the origins of the post-colonial trade union movement in Egypt, and human rights. He is presently working on a book on international trade and the political economy of Egypt in the first half of the twentieth century. He was the UW Social Science Professor for Spring 1990, received an NSF grant in 1991, a Ford Foundation grant to improve graduate education in 1993. In 1999 he co-chaired a conference of Arab intellectuals that met at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy. During the 1997-98 academic year, he was a Visiting Professor of Transregional Studies at Princeton University. In 1999-2000 he will be a visiting professor in the Department of Near East Studies at Princeton University. He teaches courses in Middle Eastern and comparative politics.