Michael Gasper teaches courses on the History of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, the History of the Ottoman Empire and the History of Islam and the Muslim World.
Spring 2025 Office Hours
Regular Office hours: M-W 11:45-1:15 by appointment (Schedule an appointment)
Special Office hours: Thursday Feb 13 only (Schedule an appointment)
Michael Gasper Teaching Schedule Spring 2025
Hist 182 The Modern Middle East
9:35am-10:30am Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Hist 211 Pandora’s Box: 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the United States
10:40 AM - 11:35 AM Monday, Wednesday, Friday
MICHAEL E. GASPER is Associate Professor of History at Occidental College in Los Angeles California. He has been named a Carnegie Scholar and a Mellon Scholar and is the author/editor of two books: The Power of Representation: Publics, Peasants and Islam in Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2009) and Is there a Middle East: The Evolution of a Geo-Political Concept (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011). He is currently finishing a manuscript entitled Identitarianism, State, and Sovereignty: Living Through the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990).
