Fredrick Walter Lorenz
Education
- Ph.D., History, UCLA
- M.A., History, Indiana University
- M.A., Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
- B.A., Middle Eastern Studies, Georgia State University
- B.S., Biochemistry, SUNY Geneseo
Interests and Expertise
Professor Lorenz is a historian of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). His research focuses on migration, settler colonialism, and imperialism in the late Ottoman Empire and modern Middle East. He is currently working on a book provisionally titled Ottoman Settlerism: Empire, Migration, and Settler Colonialism in Late Ottoman Libya. This book project examines the making of the ‘Second Egypt’ in Ottoman Libya by investigating the roles of migrants, refugees, and exiles in transforming Cyrenaica into a cultivatable and lucrative commercial center along the North African hinterland and Mediterranean coast.
He has published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of World History, Global Food History, Archivum Ottomanicum, and Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies. His future publications and research agenda reinforce his ongoing initiative to incorporate a transimperial and transnational perspective into historiography on the Global South and consider the voices of migrants, refugees, and historically understudied populations in the Middle East and North Africa.
Dr. Lorenz teaches courses on the history of the Middle East and North Africa, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the Ottoman Empire, world history, and transregional migration, settlement, and displacement.
Courses
- HIST 109: World History to 1500
- HIST 110: World History Since 1500
- HIST 339: Arab-Israeli Conflict
- HIST 341: Modern Middle East History
- HIST 342: North Africa, 1798 to the Present
- HIST 379F: Topics in Middle Eastern History
- HIST 479F: Topics in Middle Eastern History
- HIST 543: Studies in Modern Middle East History
Publications and Presentations
Work in Progress
- Ottoman Settlerism: Empire, Migration, and Settler Colonialism in Late Ottoman Libya
Articles
- “Resisting Imperial Cartography: Empires, Nomads, and Refugees between Tripolitania and Tunisia.” Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies (forthcoming).
- “A Taste of Empire: Sacred Bread, Refugees, and the Making of Ottoman Imperial Subjects.” Global Food History (February 2025): 1-20.
- “Agents, Ambassadors, and Imams: Ottoman-British Transimperialism in the Cape of Good Hope, 1862-1869.” Journal of World History 34, no. 2 (2023): 241-276.
- “‘The Second Egypt’: Cretan Refugees, Agricultural Development, and Frontier Expansion in Ottoman Cyrenaica, 1897-1904.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 53, no. 1 (2021): 89-105.”
Book Reviews
- Review of Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State in Mahjar and Mashriq:Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies (forthcoming).
- Review of Sievert Henning, Tripolitanien und Bengasi um 1900: Wissen, Vermittlung und politische Kommunikation in Archivum Ottomanicum, 2023.
Memberships
- American Historical Association
- Middle East Studies Association
- American Institute for Maghrib Studies
- World History Association