Assistant Professor of History
Office: Swift 36
Phone: 437-5676
Contact Joshua Schreier
Joshua Schreier was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Baltimore, Maryland. He received is B.A. from the University of Chicago (1991), and his M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University (1996, 2003). Schreier's research focuses on French colonialism in Algeria, and notably how the ideal of “civilizing” was carried out in both colonial and metropolitan contexts. He teaches an introductory survey of the modern Middle East, as well as more advanced courses on the Israel-Palestine conflict, Islamic social movements, national identity in modern France, and French colonialism.
Professor Schreier recently finished his dissertation, From Jewish Regeneration to Colonialism: The Ideology and Practice of Civilizing in France and Algeria, 1815-1870 under the auspices of New York University's Departments of Middle Eastern Studies and History. His training and research was supported by several Foreign Language and Area Studies grants, the Dolores Zorhab Liebmann fellowship, and the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Hômme.