STUART J. BORSCH
Associate Professor of History (2002)
Department of History
Phone: 508-767-7012
Email: sborsch@assumption.edu
B.S. U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, 1986
M.I.A. International Politics, Columbia University, 1993
M.Phil. History, Columbia University, 1996
Ph.D. History, Columbia University, 2002
Ph.D. Thesis Title: “The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Economic Analysis”
Sample of Courses Taught
From Jesus to Muhammad, The Islamic Middle East (600-1800), The Islamic Middle East (1800-Present), Islam, Modernity and the West, The West and the World I & II, Western Civilization I & II, Byzantine History, Early Medieval Europe.
Sample of Publications
- The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Analysis. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.
- “Environment and Population: The Collapse of Large Irrigation Systems Reconsidered,” Comparative Studies in Society & History, 2004
- “Thirty Years after Lopez, Miskimin, and Udovitch,” Mamluk Studies Review, 2003.
- “Nouveau Riche and the Harafiish: Living Standards in London and Cairo after the Black Death” Forthcoming in Festschrift in Honor of R.W. Bulliet, Columbia University Press, 2002.
- “Nile Floods and the Irrigation System in Fifteenth Century Egypt,” Mamluk Studies Review, January, 2000.
Sample of Presentations
- “Measuring Production Possibilities: Grain and Textiles,” Haifa, Israel, 2011.
- “Population and Regression,” Plague in Nomadic Contexts, Leipzig, Germany, 2010.
- “The Black Death: the Role of the Bureaucrats,” Cultures of Disaster, Beirut, 2010.
- “Nile Floods and Plague,” World Economic History Conference, 2009.
- “Egypt and Pandemic” Disease and History Conference, University of Chicago, 2005.
- “30 Years after Lopez, Miskimin, and Udovitch,” Mamluk Studies Conference, 2004.
- “The Waters of Death and the Pillar of Life.” Paper presented at the annual American Research Center in Egypt Conference in Chicago, IL. April, 1999.
- “The Macroeconomic and Sociological Dynamics of the Landholding System in Mamluk Egypt.” Paper presented at the Annual MESA Conference in Washington, D.C., December, 1999.
- “The Black Death in Global Perspective.” Cairo, Egypt, 1998, Sponsored by the American Research Center in Egypt
- “The Nile Floods and the Irrigation System: Al-Maqrizi’s Enigma Solved.” Paper presented at the Annual Mamluk Studies Association Conference in Chicago, IL. December, 1998.
- “The Black Death in Egypt and England.” Paper presented at the Annual MESA (Middle East Studies Association) Conference in Chicago, Il. December, 1998.
