Rank:

Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Education, UIC College of Medicine
Affiliated Faculty, Department of History

Address:

Department of Medical Education
808 S. Wood Street, 9th Floor
UIC College of Medicine
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60612

Phone: (312) 413-0113
Email: sufians@uic.edu



Education:



• Oregon Health & Sciences University. Masters of Public Health. Department of Public Health and
  Preventive Medicine. Epidemiology and Biostatistics Track. 1999-2001
  Master's Thesis Title: "The Historical Emergence of 'Social Mission' in Non-profit Health Care
  Organizations: the case of Kaiser Permanente in the Northwest, 1945-1959"
• New York University. M.A. and Ph.D., Department of Middle East Studies. 1993-1999
  Major field: Modern Middle Eastern History
  Dissertation Title: "Healing the Land and the Nation: Malaria and the Zionist project in Mandate Palestine, 1920-1947"
  Master's thesis title: Different Meanings of the Veil: A Comparison of Contemporary Iran and Egypt
  Proficient in Hebrew and Arabic. Reading knowledge of German and French
• Emory University. Bachelor's Degree in Religion. 1986-1990
  

 

Areas of Expertise: 

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• Medical History
• Middle Eastern History
  

Publications: 

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• Healing the Land and the Nation: Malaria and the Zionist project in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-1947
  (book manuscript under revision)
• Excerpts from "Mapping the Marsh: Malaria and the Sharing of Medical Knowledge in Mandatory Palestine."
  Newsletter of the Palestinian American Research Center (PARC). Spring 2002. Volume 4, Number 1. pp. 9-10.
• "Anatomy of the 1936-1939 Revolt: Images of the Body in Political Cartoons of Mandatory Palestine," Journal of Palestine Studies (forthcoming)
• "Legacy of the Past: an introduction to the History of Palestinian Arab health care during the British Mandate of Palestine, 1920-1948" in Separate and Cooperate, Cooperate and Separate: The Disengagement of the Palestinian Health Care System from Israel and its Emergence as an Independent System, Tamara Barnea and Dr.Rafiq Husseini, eds. (Joint Distribution Committee-Brookdale Institute/JDC-Israel and Palestine Academy of Science and Technology. Praeger /Greenwood Publishing Group, June 2002), pp. 9-30
• "Mission of Mercy: American Jewish Medical Relief to Palestine during World War I" in Proceedings of European Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Toledo 1998: Jewish Studies at the Turn of the 20th Century Volume II: Judaism from the Renaissance to Modern Times, Judit Targarona Borras and Angel Saenz-Badillos, eds. (New York: E.J. Brill, 1999). Co-authored with Professor Shifra Shvarts. pp. 389-398
• "Reapproaching the Border: Toward a New Historiography of Palestine/Israel." Co-editor, with Mark Levine. Manuscript under review.
• Review of Douglas Haynes, Imperial Medicine: Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease in the Journal
  of Science, Technology and Culture 9:1 (Jan-July 2004)
• Review of Shifra Shvarts, Workers Health Fund in Eretz Israel: Kupat Holim 1911-1937 in Bulletin of the History of Medicine (forthcoming)

Presentations:  

• "A newly established Global Network of Researchers on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East North Africa region (GNR-MENA): meeting needs of a neglected region" UIC International Center on Responses to Catastrophes Fall Roundtable Lunches. "Perspectives on HIV-AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa, the Caribbean and Kosova. December 17, 2003
• "Malaria and Arab-Jewish Relations in Palestine." Health and Healing in Islam Lecture Series. UCLA. Los Angeles, CA. November 20, 2003
• "Malaria, Medical Knowledge and the Medical Colonization of Mandatory Palestine." European Association for the History of Medicine. Oslo, Norway. September 2003
• "Malaria Eradication and Scientific Knowledge in Mandatory Palestine." SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine. June 2003
• "The Historical Emergence of Social Mission in Non-Profit Health Care organizations: The case of Kaiser Permanente in the Northwest, 1945-1959." University of Rochester School of Medicine. May 2003
• "Sharing Scientific Information between the British and the Zionists." Brown Bag lecture. History Department. University of Illinois-Chicago. April 2003
• "Malaria in the nexus between technology, politics and culture: the Zionist project in Mandatory Palestine." Newberry Library Seminar on Technology, Politics and Culture. Co-sponsored by University of Illinois at Chicago, Roosevelt University, Illinois Institute of Technology and Northwestern University. Chicago, Illinois. Accepted to participate in series. September 2002.
• "A Nation in Need of Healing: The Disabled Jew and the Zionist Project" American Historical Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California. January 2002
• "Duodenum or the twelve fingered intestine? (me'I ben trisar etzbaot/trisaryan): Medical terminology and the making of Hebrew medicine." Middle East Studies Association Meeting. San Francisco, CA. November 2001
• Discussant for panel entitled, "Defining Racial Health: the Uses of Myth and Memory." The Politics of 'Racial Health': Myths, Maladies and the History of Policy. Rutgers University. Sponsored by the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Graduate Program in the History of Technology, Environment and Health and the Department of History Center for African Studies. New Brunswick, NJ. October 2001
• "Mapping the Marsh: Colonial Knowledge, Scientific Information and Re-envisioning the Land." History of Science Society Meeting. Denver, Colorado. November 2001
• "Pathological Landscape: Malaria and the Sanitization of the Land." University of Pennsylvania's Middle East Center's monthly seminar. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 2001
• "Pathological Landscape: Malaria and the Sanitization of the Land." Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis seminar entitled, "Industrial Environments: Creativity and Consequences." October 2001
• "Colonial Discourse, Disability Studies and the non-Western world." Society for Disability Studies conference. Winnipeg, Canada. June 2001
• "Integrating Medical Histories into the History of Mandatory Palestine." Association for Israel Studies conference. Washington, DC. May 2001
• "The Medical Colonization of Palestine." Oregon Academy of Sciences conference. Oregon Chapter of American Association for the Advancement of Science. University of Portland. Portland, Oregon. February 2001
• "Mapping the Marsh: Exchange of Scientific Information between the British and the Zionists." Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association. Orlando, Florida. November 2000
• "Cooperation and Contestation: Malaria and the Arab/Zionist conflict." Brown Bag Series, Center for Health Research. Portland, Oregon. September 1999
• "Representations of the Palestinian Arab population in Zionist anti-malaria campaigns." Annual Meeting of the American Association of History of Medicine. New Brunswick, New Jersey. May 1999
• "Malaria, Arab/Jewish relations and the Transformation of Palestine." Part of panel entitled "Evolving Ideas about Environmental Health." Environmental History across Boundaries. Conference of the American Society for Environmental History. Tucson, Arizona. April 1999.
  "Obstacles and Partners: Malaria as a field for Jewish/Arab relations in Mandatory Palestine." The Uncertain State of Palestine: Futures of Research Conference. University of Chicago. February 1999
• "Mission of Mercy and the Ship that Came too Late: American Medical Relief to Palestine in World War I." European Association for Jewish Studies Congress. Toledo, Spain. July 1998
• "The Swamp-Draining Projects in Mandate Palestine, 1920-1948." Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association. Washington,D.C. November 1995
• "Disciplining Bodies: Malaria and the Swamp-Draining Projects in Mandate Palestine, 1920-1948." Colloquium for the Intersection of the Arts and Sciences, New York University. New York, New York. March 1995
• "Brit Shalom and the Incorporation of the Other." Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association. Tucson, Arizona. November 1994.
• "The Meanings of the Veil in Contemporary Iran." Reaching Back to the Future: Feminist Studies in the 1990's Conference. New York University. New York, New York. April 1992
  
  

Awards and Grants:  

• National Endowment for the Humanities and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Fellowship for University Professors. 2003-2004
• Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. Postdoctoral Fellowship. 2001-2002
• Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Short term fellowship. 2001-2002
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Disability Studies. San Francisco State University. July 10-August 11, 2000
• Ta Tartar Trust Research Fellowship. Oregon Health & Sciences University. 2000-2001
• Certificate of Completion. National Institutes of Health Office of Human Subjects Research. Completion of training course on Protection of Human Research Subjects. 2001
• Oregon Health & Sciences University/Center for Health Research. Academic and Applied Health Services Research Postdoctoral Training Fellowship. Sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research of the US Department of Health and Human Services. 1999-2001
• Dean's Dissertation Write-Up Fellowship. New York University, 1998-1999
• Women's Health Grant. Woodrow Wilson National Foundation. 1998-1999
• Erna Wolff Memorial Scholarship. Renewal. 1998-1999
• Preceptor-Morse Academic Program. New York University. World Cultures section of Morse Academic Core Curriculum Program. 1997-1998
• Erna Wolff Memorial Scholarship. Granted by Jewish Endowment Foundation of New Orleans.
  1997-1998
• Fulbright Hays Dissertation Fellowship. 1996-1997
• Social Science Research Council, Dissertation Fellowship. 1996-1997
• Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Dissertation Fellowship. 1996-1997
• Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship for Dissertation Research. New York University. 1995-1996
• Willard Bernbaum Merit Scholarship. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation 1995-1996
• New York University Summer Fellowship for Dissertation Research. 1995-1996
• New York University Alumnae Club Scholarship for outstanding woman of the Graduate School for Arts and Sciences. 1995-1996
• New York University's President's Service Award for Programming. 1995 and 1992
  
  

University Service:  

• Chair and Curriculum Developer. GPPA Undergraduate Honors Curriculum Committee in the History of Medicine. University of Illinois-Chicago. 2002-2003
• Member. Judaic Studies Committee. University of Illinois-Chicago. 2002-2003
• Member. Medical Humanities Programming Committee. University of Illinois-Chicago. 2002-2003
• Consultant in History of Medicine Curriculum Development. Oregon Health & Sciences University Medical School. Assisted Dean of medical school, Dr. Lynn Loriaux, in building a year-long history of medicine series for the medical school curriculum. Implemented Fall 2000
• Head Coordinator, Global Network of Scholars on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East. Group established as a result
  of HIV/AIDS workshop held at UIC. April 2003
• Coordinator, Middle East Health Group. University of Illinois-Chicago. Planned HIV/AIDS in the Middle East Workshop. Brought together international, national and UIC scholars across disciplines to discuss issues of HIV/AIDS in the Middle East. University of Illinois-Chicago. April 2003
• Supervisor. History of Medicine Student Interest Group. School of Medicine. University of Illinois-Chicago
• Member. Center for Human Responses to Social Catastrophe Planning Committee. University of Illinois-Chicago. 2002-2003
• Member. Center for Women and Gender Committee. University of Illinois-Chicago. 2002-2003
• Consultant, Coordinator and member of Steering Committee. University of Pennsylvania Middle East Health Group 2001-2002. Conceptualized MEHG, an interdisciplinary set of scholars in medicine, public health, humanities and social sciences that study problems of health, disease and disability in the region. Co-sponsored by International Medical Programs at Penn Medical School and Middle East Center. Organizing a seminar series and workshop on health issues in the Middle East, Spring 2002. Co-wrote and edited grant proposal for MEHG projects
• Founder, Coordinator, Moderator and Board Member of H-net Listserv on History of Disability (H-Disability). Editor from 2000-2002
  
  

Department of History