Christopher Rose

Christopher Rose is Assistant Professor and Program Head of History at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. He specializes in the social history of medicine, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth century Middle East. He earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in 2019.

Before coming to OLLU, he taught at St Edward’s Universityin Austin, Texas, and in the Departments of History and Middle Eastern Studies at UT-Austin.

In my relatively short teaching career, he has mentored students who have received a variety of accolades and awards, including Boren and Fulbright fellowships. He has also written a popular series of blog posts called the Grad School Survival Guide.

He is active as a public historian, and maintain an active media presence. He was co-host of the New Books in Middle Eastern Studies podcast channel, part of the New Books Network; as well as founding co-host of the 15 Minute Historypodcast for eight years.

He also has substantial experience in K-12 educator training, particularly working with world history and world geography educators. He has conducted numerous professional development sessions for educators, co-written several curriculum units for K-12 classrooms, and escorted numerous groups of educators to the Middle East.

He has traveled extensively in the Middle East, including Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Uzbekistan and the West Bank.

He has conducted archival research in Egypt, Switzerland, the UK, and in the US. He speaksEgyptian Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, and Spanish; and reads French and Portuguese.

When not nerding out in archives and contemplating the power implications of knowledge production, he enjoys food, wine, photography, and scratching cats behind the ears.