Research Description
Laura Frances Goffman is a historian of health in the modern Middle East. Her research focuses on the intersections of public health, empire, state building, and social change in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula. She is committed to bringing the Gulf region into discussions of world history, especially narratives of how migration, gender, citizenship, and state formation intersect with the movement of disease.
Education
Ph.D., Department of History, Georgetown University
M.A., Near Eastern Studies, New York University
B.A., History, Grinnell College
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Recent Publications
Goffman, L. F. (2023). Popular Politics and Epidemics in Eastern Arabia. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, 20(2), 74-94. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-10329820
Goffman, L. F. (2021). A Jar of Shaykhs' Teeth: Medicine, Politics, and the Fragments of History in Kuwait. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 53(4), 589-603. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743821000155
Goffman, L. F. (2021). Waiting for AIDS in Kuwait. Radical History Review, 2021(140), 21-48. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-8841670
Goffman, L. F. (2020). Malaria and Empire in Bahrain, 1931-1947. (Gulf Monographic Series; No. 7). Gulf Studies Center.
Goffman, L. F. (2019). Medicine and Health in the Modern Middle East and North Africa. The Arab Studies Journal, XXVII(2).