Faculty and Staff

Kenneth M. Cuno

Department of History
The University of Illinois
309 Gregory Hall
810 South Wright St.
Urbana, IL  61801

Tel. (217) 333-1245
Fax (217) 333-2297
E-mail: kmcuno@uiuc.edu

Academic Employment

1996-: Associate Professor of History, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
2002-06: Director, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
1990-96: Assistant Professor of History, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
1985-90: Visiting Assistant Professor of History, The American University in Cairo, Egypt.
1985: Visiting Lecturer, The University of California, Santa Barbara.
1982-84: Teaching Assistant, The University of California, Los Angeles.

Education

1977-85: University of California, Los Angeles. Ph. D in history.
1975-77: University of California, Los Angeles. M.A. in history.
1968-72: Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Ore. B.A. in history.

Publications

Books

The Pasha's Peasants:  Land, Society, and Economy in Lower Egypt 1740-1858.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Articles and Book Chapters Accepted or in Press

“Disobedient Wives and Neglectful Husbands: Marital Relations and the First Phase of Reform of Family Law in Egypt,” to appear in Family, Gender and Law in a Globalizing Middle East and South Asia, ed. Kenneth M. Cuno and Manisha Desai.
“Household: Comparative Practices.” to appear in Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford University Press.
“Egypt to c. 1919,” to appear in The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 5, The Islamic World in the Age of Western Dominance, ed. Francis Robinson
“Divorce and the Fate of the Family in Modern Egypt,” to appear in Family Ties and Ideals: Portraits of Continuity and Change in Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia, ed. Kathryn Yount and Hoda Rashad.

Articles and Book Chapters Published

“United States Policy towards the Middle East.” Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450, ed. Thomas Benjamin (3 vols.; Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007), 3:1101-1108.
“Contrat salam et transformations agricoles en basse Égypte à l’époque ottomane,” Annales, Histoire, Sciences Socials, 61, 4 (July-Aug. 2006), 925-940.
“Demography, Household Formation, and Marriage in Three Egyptian Villages during the Mid-Nineteenth Century,” in Sociétés rurales ottomanes / Ottoman Rural Societies, ed. Mohammad Afifi, Rachida Chih, Brigitte Marino, Nicolas Michel et Isik Tamdogan (Cairo: IFAO, 2005), 105-117.
“Middle East.” World Book Encyclopedia (2006), 13:530-535.
“The U.S. in the Middle East: Oil as a Factor,” Bridges: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History and Science, 1, 1/2(Spring/Summer 2004), 69-86.
“Ambiguous Modernization: The Transition to Monogamy in the Khedival House of Egypt,” in Beshara Doumani, ed., Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003), 247-270.
“The Reproduction of Elite Households in Eighteenth Century Egypt: Two Examples from al-Mansura,” in Brigitte Marino, ed., Etudes Sur les Villes du Proche Orient,
XVI-XIX Siecle. Hommage a Andre Raymond (Damascus: Institut Français des Études Arabes de Damas), 2001, 237-261.
“Muhammad Ali and the Decline and Revival Thesis in Modern Egyptian History,” in Reform or Modernization? Egypt under Muhammad Ali (Islah am tahdith? Misr fi `asr muhammad `ali), ed. Rauf Abbas (Cairo: Supreme Council for Culture, 2000), 93-119.
“Ideology and Juridical Discourse in Ottoman Egypt:  the Uses of the Concept of Irsad,” Islamic Law and Society, 6, 2 (May, 1999), 136-163.
“A Tale of Two Villages:  Family, Property, and Economic Activity in Rural Egypt in the 1840s,” pp. 301-329 in Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times, ed. Alan K. Bowman and Eugene Rogan.  Proceedings of the British Academy 96. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 301-329.
“The Census Registers of Nineteenth-Century Egypt:  A New Source for Social Historians,” co-authored with Michael J. Reimer, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 24, 2 (1997), 193-216.
“Joint Family Households and Rural Notables in Nineteenth-Century Egypt,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 27, 4 (Nov.1995), 485-502.
“Was the Land of Ottoman Syria Miri or Milk?  An Examination of Juridical Differences within the Hanafi School.”  Studia Islamica, 81 (June 1995), 121-152.
“Commercial Relations between Town and Village in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Egypt,” Annales Islamologiques, 24 (1988), 111-135 (appeared in 1989).
“Legal Sources for the History of Egyptian Women before the Twentieth Century," Islamic and Mediterranean Women's History Network Newsletter,” 1, 2-3 (1988), 6-10.
“Egypt's Wealthy Peasantry, 1740-1820.  A Study of the Region of al-Mansura,” Land Tenure and Social Transformation in the Near East, ed. Tarif Khalidi (Beirut: The American University of Beirut, 1984), 303-332.
“The Origins of Private Ownership of Land in Egypt:  a Reappraisal,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 12 (1980), 245-275.

Short essays and journalism.

“The United States, Israel and the Middle East.” The Public i. Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, Nov. 2006.
“U.S. Needs to Work toward Achieving a Long, Durable Peace.” Daily Southtown (Tinley Park, IL), July 23, 2006.
“Sunni-Shi`i Differences in Iraq.” Illinois International Review, supplemental feature, Spring 2006. http://www.ilint.uiuc.edu/Intl_Review_Extra.pdf.
“Constructing Muhammad Ali.” Ahram Weekly, No. 768., 10-15 Nov. 2005.
“War? The View from the Arab Middle East,” Swords and Ploughshares, Program In Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 14, 3 (Winter 2002), 14-16.
“U.S. pays for Israeli policy it condemns,” Chicago Tribune, Apr. 17, 2002.
“Terror Attacks on America: How do We Respond?” Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, Oct. 7, 2001.
“Migrants,” “Islam,” “Refugees,” and “Behind the Veil,” in Charles C. Stewart and Peter Fritzsche, eds., Imagining the Twentieth Century (University of Illinois Press, 1997), 71-73, 93, 114-115, 131.
“In Memoriam (Ronald C. Jennings),” Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, 20, 1 (Spring 1996), 93-95.