C. Ernest Dawn Papers

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Correspondence, Subject and Research Files



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Collection Overview

Title: C. Ernest Dawn Papers, 1950-2001

ID: 15/13/52

Primary Creator: Dawn, C. Ernest (1918-)

Extent: 2.0 cubic feet

Arrangement: Chronological.

Subjects: Faculty Papers, Music -- Middle East, Ottoman Empire

Formats/Genres: Papers

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Papers of C. Ernest Dawn (1918-2016), professor of history (1949-89), including correspondence, course materials, teaching and research materials relating to Ottoman and Arab history.

Biographical Note

C. Ernest ("Ernie") Dawn (1918-2016) was instructor (1949-52); assistant professor (1952-55); associate professor (1955-60); professor (1960-89); and professor emeritus (1989-2016) of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He was a renowned early American scholar of the Middle East and Arab nationalism, perhaps best known for his book From Ottomanism to Arabism: Essays on the Origins of Arab Nationalism (1973).

Dawn was born in 1918 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to parents Hettie Gibson and Fred H. Dawn. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee (1941). He served in US Army Intelligence during WWII and the Korean War (1951-52). Working under Philip Hitti, Dawn earned a master's degree (1947) and PhD (1948) in Near Eastern studies from Princeton University. He was an Arabist, who specialized in Arab nationalism in Syria, pan-Arabism, the history of the Greater Syria concept, Arab intellectual history, King Abdallah I of Jordan, and modern Islam. He was among "the first generation of American scholars of the Middle East" (Yaphe). As such, Dawn conducted extensive research in the Middle East, including as a Social Science Research Council fellow (1948-49), a Fulbright-Hays fellow (1966-67), and director of the Illinois Tehran Research Unit (1972�­-74). Dawn was also a faculty member (1981-82) and a fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago (1985). His written works include "Ideological Influences in the Arab Revolt" (1959), "Arab Islam in the Modern Age" (1965), From Ottomanism to Arabism: Essays on the Origins of Arab Nationalism (1973), "The Formation of Pan-Arab Ideology in the Interwar Years" (1988), and "The Quality of Arab Nationalism" (2000).

Dawn and his wife, Pansie Dawn (nee Dooley), had two daughters, Julia and Carolyn. He died on January 5, 2016, in Seattle, Washington.

Sources:

"C. Ernest Dawn," News-Gazette, January 31, 2016, accessed May 28, 2020, https://www.news-gazette.com/obituaries/c-ernest-dawn/article_4b2f78e4-e849-540d-9030-4926ae077aa5.html.

Judith Share Yaphe, "C. Ernest Dawn," History at Illinois (Spring 2016), p. 16, accessed May 28, 2020, https://history.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/HistoryatIllinois2016low.pdf

"Memorial: C. Ernest Dawn *48," Princeton Alumni Weekly, January 11, 2017, accessed May 28, 2020, https://paw.princeton.edu/memorial/c-ernest-dawn-48.

Subject/Index Terms

Faculty Papers
Music -- Middle East
Ottoman Empire


Box and Folder Listing


Series 1: Correspondence, Subject and Research FilesAdd to your cart.
Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Ideology of Arab Revolt, 1950-1960Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Conferences, 1950-1961Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Newsletters, 1955-64Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Abdullah and Kitchener, 1955-57Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Arab Revolt, 1956-1962Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Near East International, 1957-63Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Recommendations, 1957-64Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Book Reviews, 1958-1981Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Rise of Arabism in Syria (worksheets), 1959Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Middle East Nationalism, 1959-60Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Talks on Current Situations, 1959-62Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Middle Eastern Research Correspondence, 1960-1982Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Ottomanism to Arabism (arr.), 1960-61Add to your cart.
Folder 14: YMCA/YWCA Faculty Forum, 1960-61Add to your cart.
Box 2Add to your cart.
Folder 1: AAMES, 1960-61Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Summer Institute for High School History Teachers, 1960Add to your cart.
Folder 3: AAMES (action file), 1961Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Copy of "Avenues Through the Thought Barrier to Survival," 1961Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Rise of Arabism in Syria, 1960-61Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Atherton Prize Committee, 1962-64Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Correspondence on Middle East Journal, 1962-1986Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Professional Correspondence, 1964-65Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Recommendations, 1964-65Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Reprints on article on Islam, 1965Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Arabic at the U of I, 1965-71Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Professional Correspondence, 1965-66Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Professional Correspondence-Beirut, 1966-67Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Egypt-Remilitarization of Sinai, May 1967Add to your cart.
Folder 15: Recommendations, Sept. 1967Add to your cart.
Folder 16: Professional Correspondence, August 1967-68Add to your cart.
Folder 17: Professional Correspondence, 1968-69Add to your cart.
Folder 18: Professional Correspondence, 1969-70Add to your cart.
Folder 19: The Advisor, 1969-71Add to your cart.
Folder 20: Professional Correspondence, 1970-71Add to your cart.
Folder 21: Professional Correspondence, 1971-72Add to your cart.
Folder 22: von Grunebaum (volume), 1971Add to your cart.
Folder 23: Book Reviews, 1971-1984Add to your cart.
Folder 24: Ottomanism to Arabism (books)-legals, 1971-1992Add to your cart.
Folder 25: Professional Correspondence, 1974-75Add to your cart.
Folder 26: Denver Journal Intern, Law, and Politics, 1975Add to your cart.
Folder 27: Professional Correspondence, 1975-76Add to your cart.
Folder 28: Professional Correspondence, 1976-77Add to your cart.
Folder 29: Professional Correspondence, 1978-79Add to your cart.
Folder 30: Professional Correspondence, 1979-80Add to your cart.
Folder 31: CCFR, 1979Add to your cart.
Folder 32: Haifa, 1979Add to your cart.
Folder 33: Princeton, 1979Add to your cart.
Folder 34: Hebrew University, 1980-82Add to your cart.
Folder 35: Professional Correspondence, 1980-81Add to your cart.
Folder 36: St. Mary's College Symposium, 1980-81Add to your cart.
Folder 37: Professional Correspondence, 1982-83Add to your cart.
Folder 38: Security in Southwest Asia, 1983Add to your cart.
Folder 39: Correspondence, 1983-84Add to your cart.
Folder 40: Professional Correspondence, 1984-85Add to your cart.
Folder 41: Uriel Dann Conference and Collection, 1982-87Add to your cart.
Folder 42: The Columbia University Middle East Institute: Conference on Early Arab Nationalism, 1986Add to your cart.
Folder 43: University of Chicago Guest Lecture on Islam Civilization, 1985Add to your cart.
Folder 44: Correspondence, 1985-86Add to your cart.
Folder 45: Book Reviews, 1986Add to your cart.
Folder 46: Professional Correspondence, 1986-87Add to your cart.
Folder 47: Columbia Conference, 1986Add to your cart.
Box 3Add to your cart.
Folder 1: T.E. Lawrence, 1986-1990Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Origins of Arab Nationalism (final), 1987-1990Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Professional Correspondence, 1987-88Add to your cart.
Folder 4: IJMES, 1987-88Add to your cart.
Folder 5: T.E. Lawrence Symposium, 1988Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Professional Correspondence, 1988-89Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Gulf Crisis, 1989-90Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Professional Correspondence, 1989-90Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Professional Correspondence, 1990-91Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Smithsonian, 1991Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Correspondence, 1991-92Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Professional Correspondence, 1992-93Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Professional Correspondence, 1993-Add to your cart.
Folder 14: Grading ScalesAdd to your cart.
Folder 15: T.E. Lawrence (final copy)Add to your cart.
Box 4Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Book Reviews, 1991-2001Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, 1991-99Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Israel Gershoni, 1986-94Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Joel Gordon, 1986-97Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Personal Correspondence, 1991-99Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Princeton University-Program in Near Eastern Studies, 1998-2000Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Itamar Rabinovich, 1989-90Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Recommendations, 1993-97Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Niloofar Shambayati, 1988-90Add to your cart.
Folder 10: University of Colorado at Boulder-Conferences, 1983-98Add to your cart.

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