{"id":17,"date":"2021-12-16T06:13:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T06:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ppspringer\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2021-12-16T06:13:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T06:13:54","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ppspringer\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peter Polak Springer earned his PhD in History at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. He is an interdisciplinary and comparative historian, whose work focuses on transnationalism and cultural politics in borderlands and contested spaces in Europe and the Middle East during the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. Among his published research is a monograph on nationalization politics and identity in the German-Polish contested borderland of Upper Silesia, 1918-1967, as well as articles and chapters on topics, such as oil politics, borders, and contested spaces in the Gulf, and religiosity and nationalism in interwar Palestine and Poland. Other topics he has published on include Palestinian press encounters with anti-Semitism in 1930s Europe, Syrian refugees in Germany, as well as historical culture and memory in the Gulf. He teaches undergraduate courses on topics in modern European and world history as well as History of Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/images\/cleardot.gif\" alt=\"\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">\u062d\u0635\u0644 \u0628\u064a\u062a\u0631 \u0628\u0648\u0644\u0627\u0643 \u0633\u0628\u0631\u064a\u0646\u063a\u0631 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0643\u062a\u0648\u0631\u0627\u0647 \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u062c\u0627\u0645\u0639\u0629 \u0631\u0648\u062a\u063a\u0631\u0633 \u0641\u064a \u0646\u064a\u0648 \u0628\u0631\u0646\u0633\u0648\u064a\u0643\u060c \u0646\u064a\u0648 \u062c\u0631\u0633\u064a\u060c \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0648\u0644\u064a\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062a\u062d\u062f\u0629 \u0648\u0647\u0648 \u0645\u0624\u0631\u062e \u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a \u064a\u0642\u0648\u0645 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Culture, 1919-1989<\/em>, (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015, BBK 2018). 300 pages. \u00a0<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title.php?rowtag=Polak-SpringerRecovered\">http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title.php?rowtag=Polak-SpringerRecovered<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title.php?rowtag=Polak-SpringerRecovered\"><\/a><br><br>\u201cBordering Zubara: Oil politics, the 1937 Qatari-Bahraini Conflict, and the Making of a Modern Arabian (Persian) Gulf Borderland.\u201d <em>Journal of Borderlands Studies<\/em>, (online publication Dec. 2020) Open access: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/08865655.2020.1855228\">https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/08865655.2020.1855228<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGain Weight, Have Fun, Discover the Fatherland: The German-Polish  Summer Youth Exchange Program for Borderland Children and Interwar Irredentist Politics.\u201d <em>Contemporary European Histor<\/em>y 30:22 (May 2021). Open access: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S096077732000051X\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S096077732000051X<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cReligiosity, Nationalism, and Politics in Palestine and Poland: Islamic and Catholic Pilgrimages and Contested Spaces during the Interwar Era,\u201d <em>Nationalities Papers<\/em> 48:3 (May 2020): 603-619.<br><br>\u201c\u2018Jihad against the Jews:\u2019 Anti-Semitism in Interwar Eastern Europe in the Eyes of the Arab Press of Mandatory Palestine.\u201d Forthcoming in a special \u201cEastern Europe and Middle East\u201d edition of the Herder Institute in Marburg Series, <em>Sources and Studies on  the History of Eastern Europe<\/em>. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Polak Springer earned his PhD in History at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. 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