Dr. Elizabeth Bishop

Dr. Elizabeth Bishop earned a PhD in the history of the modern Middle East at the University of Chicago (1997). A recognized historian of Iraq’s Hashemite monarchy, Dr. Bishop is one of the foremost scholars to carry out research regarding member nation-states of the Arab League in records groups across the Second World. Because her research introduced the innovative thematic of “alternate modernities” for the postcolonial world, the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University awarded her a postdoctoral fellowship (2021), and she co-convened the workshop “Arab-Soviet Internationalism; Socialist Internationalism, International Organizations and the Politics of Revolution in the 20th and 21st Centuries” with Andreas Hilger, Jeffrey G. Karam, and Sana Tannoury-Karam at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin (2022).

An active contributor in the field of environmental history as well, Dr. Bishop served the American Association for Environmental History on its George Perkins Marsh book prize committee (2022-2025). Bishop has taken an active role in Cambridge University Library, Research & Collections Programme’s “Empire & Environment, in the museum” professional development network (2021), and Dumbarton Oaks–a Harvard University research institute—awarded her a research residency in the of field garden and landscape studies (2022). Complementing these academic achievements in the adjacent fields of diplomatic and environmental histories, she also played a leadership role in expansion of the U.S. National Council on U.S. Arab Relations’ Model Arab League diplomatic simulation and student leadership activity, serving on the Board of Directors of the Academic Research Institute in Iraq. The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) awarded her three prestigious Fulbright grants (2007, 2018, 2019), and she held an advisory role in the ECA’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program (2021, 2022, 2023).