K.M.J. (Karène) Sanchez-Summerer, Prof
PhD supervision: I welcome PhDs proposals on relational history of Palestine (1870-1948), cultural diplomacy in the Middle East, interconfesional relations in the Levant and the Middle East (1870-1960), Middle Eastern communities in Europe (1870-1960)
BA and MA seminars (2022-2025) -selection: ‘Understanding Sectarianism and minorities in the Middle East. A Global approach’, ‘Culture as soft power in the MENA region’, ‘Europe in the Middle East, The Middle East in Europe’
MA seminars (2010-2022)- selection: ‘Talking to the Levant’. Europeans’ Cultural and Linguistic policies in the Middle East (1900-1970), 'Middle Eastern Christianities’, 'Language ideologies, policies, identities in the Middle East'
PhD schools (selection; see CV)
Winter school University of Groningen, co-organizer with Prof. H. Sharkey (U. of Pennsylvania), ‘Commensality and Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and its diaspora’, 20-24 January 2025, https://www.rug.nl/education/summer-winter-schools/winter_schools/
2d edition, 26-30 January 2026, University of Groningen https://www.rug.nl/education/summer-winter-schools/winter_schools/commensality-cultural-heritage/
PhD School, 10-17 October 2026, Cairo, within the ANR consortium project PredicMO (2024-2029), 'Decompartementalizing the Study of Religion. The Middle East and its Doiasporas (late 19th-21 th c.). Lexis, Mapping, Staging'
PhD school co-organizer, MisSMO consortium project ‘Christian missions and societies in the Middle East: organizations, identities, heritagization (19th-20th centuries)’, Renewed sources and methods for the study of the missionary phenomenon, 3-6 June 2019, ‘Writing the history of missions to the Orient from the Roman archives. Centralization, classification, conservation?’, École française de Rome, https://missmo.hypotheses.org/category/activites-scientifiques/ecole-dete-2019
PhD school co-organizer, MisSMO consortium project ‘Christian missions and societies in the Middle East: organizations, identities, heritagization (19th-20th centuries)’, Renewed sources and methods for the study of the missionary phenomenon, 3-6 September 2019, ‘Ethnographies, scientific reportage and missionary source studies: towards a plurality of methods’, IFAO, Cairo, https://missmo.hypotheses.org/category/activites-scientifiques/ecole-dete-2019
PhDs:
PhD supervisor José Rafael Medeiros Coelho (November 2023-November 2027), ‘Ottoman Arab Migrations to Latin America (Antioch-São Paulo): Mapping Transnational Hubs, Networks, and Cultural Heritage (19-20 centuries)’, ICOG PhD (fully funded), co-supervisor: dr. K. Santing
PhD Supervisor Francesco Felle (November 2024- 2027), 'Arab-Jewish Intellectuals in a Changing Levant (1880–1948): Between Ottomanism, Zionism, and Arab Nationalism’, Double Degree with Turin University (fully funded); Co-supervisors: Prof. dr. L. Kamel, dr. A. Marzano, dr. L. Admiraal
PhD supervisor Gülnur Demirci (September 2024- September 2028), ‘Embodied Memory in Post-traumatic Communities. The Circassians - A Transnational Analysis’, Double Degree with Malmö University-Sweden, Malmö- Groningen University (fully funded), co-supervisor: Prof. dr. B. Peterson
PhD supervisor Brandon Johnson (March 2024 - March 2028), ‘Ottoman Violence and the Forging of U.S. Foreign Policy: Missionary Diplomats in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1880–1900’, co-supervisor: Prof. dr. I.M. Okkenhaug
PhD supervisor Elise Aghazarian (September 2024- September 2028), ‘The Christian neighbourhood of Jerusalem (1937-1987)’, co-supervisor: dr. S. Irving
PhD supervision Yasin Sari (April 2025-April 2029), '‘A Shattered People, Zaza's: Self-image, Identification and (Trans)nationalism’, co-supervisors: dr. K. Santing
PhD supervisor Roy Shukrun (Autumn 2020- 2024), ‘Transnational migration and the emergence of a global Moroccan Jewish diaspora in the 20th century’, Double Degree with McGill University (fully funded); co-supervisors: dr. S. Goldstein-Sabbah and dr. C. Silver
PhD supervisor Eline Eerlijk (February 2024-February 2028), ‘The emergence of racial antisemitism among the European population in French Algeria from the post-war period (1943) until Algeria's independence (1962) in the popular press’; co-supervisor: S. Goldstein-Sabbah
PhD supervisor Bernhard Kronegger (January 2017- January 2022), 'The Catholic Church in Palestine. International Politics, Interreligious Relations and Internal Struggles in the Interwar Period (1918-1939)’, Double Degree with Universität Erfurt (fully funded); co-supervisor: Prof. dr. Jörg Seiler
PhD supervisor Tijmen Baarda (2012-2018), ‘Arabic and Aramaic in Iraq. Language and Christian Commitment to the Arab Nationalist Project (1910-1950)’, Leiden University; co-supervisor: Prof. dr. H Murre van den Berg
PhD supervisor Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah (2012-2019), ‘Baghdadi Jewish Networks in Hashemite Irak: Jewish Transnationalism in the Age of Nationalism’, Leiden University; co-supervisors: Prof. dr. H. Murre-van den Berg and Prof. dr. Daniel Schroeter
PhD supervisor Kefan Bao (September 2019- September 2024), ‘The Construction of Identity by Linguistic References in the Arab World: A Comparative Study of Language Ideology and Practice between Berbers in Maghreb and Maronites in Levant’, CSC-Leiden University scholarship; supervisor: Prof. dr. M. Koosmann
Post-doc supervision
E. Marteijn (September 2024- September 2025), ‘Rituals in Flux: Diasporic religion of Christian Palestinian refugees, 1948-present’
S. Zananiri (September 2018- April 2022), ‘Between the Holy Land and the Mediterranean: the Arab Orthodox community of Palestine’
K. Papastathis (September 2018- August 2022), ‘Between Athens and Constantinople, the Greek Orthodox community in Palestine (1920-1950)’
O. Calafato (July 2021-February 2022), ‘Snapshots by the Seaside: Connected Histories of the Mediterranean in the 1920s and 1930s” (photographic representations of an emerging seaside culture across the Eastern Mediterranean region in the 1920s and 1930s)
S. Irakleos (September 2021-February 2022), ‘J. Reddaway personal archives, the formative years of the Director of the Arab-British Center and Deputy Commissioner General of the UNRWA’
A. Turiano (September 2021- Spring 2022), ‘Gender, philanthropy, and Empire: the Italian ANSMI in Ottoman and Mandate Levant’
S. Agsous-Bienstein (January-May 2021), ‘Pre-1948 archives, Palestinian cultural agents and Khalil Sakakini’s educational projects’
S. Irving (October-December 2019), ‘Linguistic and cultural policies in Ottoman/ British Mandate Palestine (1900-1948): the non-elites’ sources’
C. Nassif (September 2018- August 2019), ‘Between the Holy Land and the World: the Melkite community of Palestine (1920-1950)’
C. Rubio (February-April 2020), ‘Arabic, French and the national dilemma in Mandate Palestine and the first years of the Israel State’K. Papastathis (September 2018- August 2022), ‘Between Athens and Constantinople, the Greek Orthodox community in Palestine (1920-1950)’