Roger Owen (historian)

Roger Owen
Roger Owen
Born	27 May 1935; London, England
Died	23 December 2018 (aged 83)
Nationality	British
Education	BA (1959), DPhil (1964)
Occupation(s)	Historian, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Harvard University, 1993-
Employer(s)	Harvard, Director of Center for Middle Eastern Studies 1996-99
Website	Harvard History Department - Faculty Emeriti

Edward Roger John Owen (27 May 1935 – 23 December 2018) was a British historian who wrote several classic works on the history of the modern

military occupations

.

Biography

He read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at

St. Antony's College, from 1960 to 1964. One of his close advisers was the renowned Middle East historian Albert Hourani

. His thesis which was on the cotton production and the development of the economy in nineteenth-century Egypt was later published into a book.

When in the 1960s new postgraduate course in modern Middle Eastern studies were introduced at St Antony's College and a raft of new posts created with British government funding, Owen was appointed in Economic and Social History in 1964. He served as Director of St. Antony's College Middle East Centre, from 1971-4, 1980-2, 1986-8, and 1991-3.

Subsequently he became the A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History at

Harvard

's Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES).

In addition to his teaching and scholarship, Owen frequently wrote columns for the

English-language versions of the Arabic newspapers Al-Hayat and Al-Ahram

.

He was a member of the

Middle East Studies Association of North America

, also known as MESA.

He died on 23 December 2018.[1]

Awards and honors

In 2007 he received a Doctorate in Humane Letters from the

American University of Cairo

.

In July 2010, he received the prestigious “Award for Outstanding Contributions to Middle Eastern Studies 2010” from the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) in Barcelona.

In 2012, he received the

UCLA.^[2]

Selected works

The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life. Harvard University Press (2012)
Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul (2004)
State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East. Routledge, revised version (2004)
A History of the Middle East Economies in the 20th Century, with Şevket Pamuk). I.B. Tauris (1999)
The Middle East in the World Economy 1800–1914 (1981)
Cotton and the Egyptian Economy, 1820–1914 (1969)

References

^ Professor Roger Owen Has Passed Away
^ Owen, Roger. "2012 Levi Della Vida Award for Excellence in Islamic Studies, honoring the scholarship of Professor Roger Owen". Retrieved 9 July 2015.

External links

Faculty page at Harvard University
Roger Owen presents at Harvard Law School at archive.today (archived 2012-11-30), March 17, 2008.
One Hundred Years of Middle Eastern Oil. By Prof. E. Roger Owen, 2008.

[1] Professor Roger Owen Has Passed Away

[2] Owen, Roger. "2012 Levi Della Vida Award for Excellence in Islamic Studies, honoring the scholarship of Professor Roger Owen". Retrieved 9 July 2015.

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