Billie Melman () is professor of history at

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) is a Public university, public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Located in northwest Tel Aviv, the university is the center of teaching and ...

, Henri Glasberg Chair in

European Studies European studies is a field of study offered by many academic colleges and universities that focuses on the History of Western civilization and the evolution of Western culture, as well as on current developments in European integration. Some ...

, a member of the

Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, based in Jerusalem, was established in 1961 by the State of Israel to foster contact between Israeli scholars in the sciences and humanities and create a think tank for advising the government on res ...

, and a fellow of the

Royal Historical Society The Royal Historical Society (RHS), founded in 1868, is a learned society of the United Kingdom which advances scholarly studies of history. Origins The society was founded and received its royal charter in 1868. Until 1872 it was known as the H ...

. Melman specializes in British social and cultural history and in history of empires, and has written extensively on colonialism and culture, cultures of history and on gender history and historiography. Most recently,in a book published in 2020; Melman wrote on the rediscovery of Near Eastern antiquity in the 20th century.

Publications

Books

*''Empires of Antiquities: Modernity and the Rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, 1914-1950'' (Oxford University Press, 2020) *''London: Place, People and Empire'' (Hebrew) (Second ed., Tel Aviv, 2014) *''The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953'' (Oxford, 2006) *''Women's Orients: Englishwomen and the Middle East, Sexuality, Religion and Work'' (London, second, revised ed., 1995) *''Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties-Flappers and Nymphs'' (London, 1988)

Edited volumes

*''Popularizing National Pasts 1800 to the Present'' (ed. with

Stefan Berger Stefan Berger (born 1964) is the Director of the Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and Chairman of the committee of the Library of the Ruhr Foundation. He is Professor of Social History at the Ruhr University. He ...

and Chris Lorenz) (London and New York, 2012) *''Borderlines Genders and Identities in War and Peace 1870-1930'' (ed.) (London and New York, 1998)

References

External links

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