Michelle Campos

  

• Associate Professor
• UF

I am an historian of the modern Middle East. My current work is a social history of Jerusalem in the late Ottoman period (late 19th c- early 20th c). I am fascinated by the question of intra- and inter-communal relations in the urban environment - who lived, worked, and smoked with whom, and how this physical proximity impacted not only their own personal social networks, but how it might have altered urban life on a larger scale. I have been working with census, marriage, and business records, which are of course quantitatively rich, even overwhelming; my current challenge is trying to figure out how to integrate these sources with more narrative/qualitative ones like the press, memoirs, etc.