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About Christopher Rose
Christopher S Rose is Assistant Professor and Program Head, History, at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. He specializes in the social history of medicine in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean in the 19th and 20th century. He researches the impacts and social perceptions of diseases and epidemic events. His monograph project, Home Front Egypt: Famine, Disease, and Death During the Great War examines the link between imperial governance, food shortages, disease, and social unrest among peasants and the urban poor. He is also interested in the link between imperialism and epidemics, and in tropical and colonial/imperial medicine. He has taught courses on the history of medicine and disease, the history of the Middle East and North Africa from the Rise of Islam to the present day, and other topics in imperial and world history. Keen listeners may recognize his voice from the podcast 15 Minute History, which he co-founded in 2012 and hosted for 8 years.Christopher S. Rose is Assistant Professor and Program Head, History, at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. He specializes in the social history of medicine in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean in the 19th and 20th century.
NBN Episodes hosted by Christopher:
February 3, 2022
Germs at Bay
"Quarantine, as an invention of man, is the most primitive and universal instrument of defense against contagious disease epidemics. Almost universal…
January 12, 2022
The Egyptian Labor Corps
During World War I, the British Empire enlisted half a million young men, predominantly from the countryside of Egypt, in the Egyptian Labor Corps (EL…
December 1, 2021
Indian Soldiers in World War I
More than one million Indian soldiers were deployed during World War I, serving in the Indian army as part of Britain's imperial war effort. These men…
November 15, 2021
The Algerian Dream
"Algeria is different." Africa's largest country is a place that few western academics have studied or been able to travel to. The modern nation, forg…
November 5, 2021
Revealed Sciences
Islam's contributions to the natural sciences has long been recognized within the Euro-American academy, however, such studies tend to include one of …
November 2, 2021
Midnight in Cairo
One of the world’s most multicultural cities, twentieth-century Cairo was a magnet for the ambitious and talented. During the 1920s and ’30s, a vibran…
August 16, 2021
ReOrienting Histories of Medicine
There's been a lot of resurgent interest in the Silk Routes lately, particularly looking at the cultural, political, and economic connections between …
August 11, 2021
Lebanon
Why has secularism faced such challenges in the Middle East and in Lebanon in particular? In light of dominating headlines about the spread of sectari…
August 6, 2021
Hip Hop Harem
Although hip hop culture has widely been acknowledged as a global phenomenon that has spread far beyond its roots in American African-Caribbean-Latinx…
July 28, 2021
Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography
Of the available sources for Islamic history published before the 9th century of the Christian Era, few are of greater importance than Kitab Futuh al-…
June 29, 2021
The Horde
The Mongols are widely known for one thing: conquest. Through the ages, word "horde" has entered the English lexicon with a negative connotation, conj…
June 25, 2021
Ahmad ibn Tulun
Ahmad Ibn Tulun: Governor of Abbasid Egypt, 868-884 (Oneworld Academic, 2021), by Matthew S. Gordon (Miami University (Ohio)) is an innovative look a…
June 21, 2021
A Physician on the Nile
A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years (NYU Press, 2021) is a unique text that will fascinate specialists and…