Letter from the Chair
Kenneth M Cuno
Associate Professor of History
Associate Professor of African Studies
Associate Professor of LAS Global Studies
South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Contact Info
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Address: Department of History
309 Gregory Hall
810 S Wright, MC-466
Urbana, IL 61801 - Telephone: 217-300-4091
- Email: kmcuno@illinois.edu
- CV: Download my C.V.
- Visit Website
Areas of Specialization
Social, economic, and legal history of modern Middle East
Biography
Kenneth M. Cuno researches, teaches, and writes about the history of the modern Middle East. He received a Ph.D. in history at UCLA in 1985, and taught at the American University in Cairo before coming to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990. His recent publications include “Egypt to c. 1919,” in The New Cambridge History of Islam (2010); Race and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans, co-edited with Terence Walz (2010); and Family, Gender, and Law in a Globalizing Middle East and South Asia, co-edited with Manisha Desai (2009). His ongoing book project is Family History in Egypt: Marriage, Family and Law in the Long Nineteenth Century, a study of changes in marriage and household formation, deals of marriage and family, and family law, from the late 18th century to the early 20th century.
Specializations / Research Interest(s)
- Social, economic, and legal history of the modern Middle East; family history.
Education
- Ph.D. UCLA 1985
External URLs
- “A Minute with Ken Cuno, Expert on the Middle East.”
- “Current Events in Egypt,” WILL AM, Focus 580 program, Feb. 10, 2011, with Asef Bayat.
- “Current Events in Egypt,” WILL AM, Focus 580 program, Feb. 23, 2011.
- Obama's Speech on the Middle East, WCIA TV, May 26, 2011
- “Next Steps in Egypt: A Minute with Ken Cuno, Expert on the Middle East,” May 30, 2012.
- "Current Events in Egypt," WILL AM, Focus 580 program, May 30, 2012.
- “Professor Ken Cuno discusses the recent protests and referendum vote in Egypt,” Illinois International Global Viewpoint, Dec. 17, 2012.
Publications
Books
- Cuno, Kenneth M. The Pasha's Peasants: Land, Society, and Economy in Lower Egypt 1740-1858. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Book Contributions
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "“Women with Missing Husbands: Marriage in Nineteenth Century Egypt” ." Objectivity and Subjectivity in the Historiography of Egypt: In Honour of Nelly Hanna. . Ed. Nasser A. Ibrahim. Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organization, 2012. 156-170.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "“Egypt to c. 1919” ." The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 5, The Islamic World in the Age of Western Dominance. . Ed. Francis Robinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 79-106.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "“African Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Rural Egypt: A Preliminary Assessment”." Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean. . Ed. Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2010. 77-98.
- Walz, Terence, and Kenneth M. Cuno. "“Introduction: The Study of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Mediterranean”." Introduction. Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean. . Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2010.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "Disobedient Wives and Neglectful Husbands: Marital Relations and the First Phase of Family Law Reform in Egypt." Family, Gender, and Law in a Globalizing Middle East and South Asia. . Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009. 3-18.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "Divorce and the Fate of the Family in Modern Egypt." Family in the Middle East: Ideational Change in Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia. . Ed. Kathryn Yount and Hoda Rashad. Routledge, 2008. 196-216.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "Demography, Household Formation, and Marriage in Three Egyptian Villages during the Mid-Nineteenth Century." Sociétés rurales ottomanes / Ottoman Rural Societies. . Ed. Mohammad Afifi, Rachida Chih, Brigitte Marino, Nicolas Michel, and Isik Tamdogan. Cairo: IFAO, 2005. 105-117.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "Ambiguous Modernization: The Transition to Monogamy in the Khedival House of Egypt." Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender. . Ed. Beshara Doumani. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. 247-270.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "The Reproduction of Elite Households in Eighteenth Century Egypt: Two Examples from al-Mansura." Etudes Sur les Villes du Proche Orient, XVI-XIX Siecle. Hommage a Andre Raymond . . Ed. Brigitte Marino. Damascus: IFEAD, 2001. 237-261.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "Muhammad Ali and the Decline and Revival Thesis in Modern Egyptian History." Reform or Modernization? Egypt under Muhammad Ali . . Ed. Rauf Abbas. Cairo: Supreme Council for Culture, 2000. 93-119.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "A Tale of Two Villages: Family, Property, and Economic Activity in Rural Egypt in the 1840s." Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times. . Ed. Alan K. Bowman and Eugene Rogan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 301-329.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "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 Press, 1984. 303-332.
Edited Books
- Walz, Terence , and Kenneth M. Cuno. Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in 19th-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean. . Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2010.
- Cuno, Kenneth M., and Manisha Desai. Family, Gender, and Law in a Globalizing Middle East and South Asia. . Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009.
Journal Articles
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "“Family Ideals, Colonialism and Law,” a review essay ." Journal of Women's History 22.4 (2010): 282-292.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "African Slaves in Nineteenth Century Rural Egypt." International Journal of Middle East Studies 41.2 (2009): 186-188.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "Contrat salam et transformations agricoles en basse Égypte à l’époque ottomane." Annales, Histoire, Sciences Socials 61.4 (2006): 925-940.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "The U.S. in the Middle East: Oil as a Factor." Bridges: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History and Science 11.1-2 (2004): 69-86.
- "War? The View from the Arab Middle East." Swords and Ploughshares 14.3 (2002): 14-16.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "Ideology and Juridical Discourse in Ottoman Egypt: the Uses of the Concept of Irsad." Islamic Law and Society 6.2 (1999): 136-163.
- Cuno, Kenneth M., and Michael J. Reimer. "The Census Registers of Nineteenth-Century Egypt: A New Source for Social Historians." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 24.2 (1997): 193-216.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "Joint Family Households and Rural Notables in Nineteenth-Century Egypt." International Journal of Middle East Studies 27.4 (1995): 485-502.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "Was the Land of Ottoman Syria Miri or Milk? An Examination of Juridical Differences within the Hanafi School." Studia Islamica 81 (1995): 121-152.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "Commercial Relations between Town and Village in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Egypt." Annales Islamologiques 24 (1988): 111-135 .
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "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.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "The Origins of Private Ownership of Land in Egypt: a Reappraisal." International Journal of Middle East Studies 12 (1980): 245-275.
Newspaper Articles
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "Terror Attacks on America: How do We Respond?." Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette. [Champaign-Urbana] 7 Oct. 2001.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "The United States, Israel and the Middle East." The Public i. [Urbana-Champaign] 15 Nov. 2006.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "Constructing Muhammad Ali." Ahram Weekly . [Cairo] 15 Nov. 2005.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "U.S. Needs to Work toward Achieving a Long, Durable Peace." Daily Southtown . [Tinley Park, IL] 23 Jul. 2006.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "U.S. pays for Israeli policy it condemns." Chicago Tribune. [Chicago] 17 Apr. 2002.
Magazine Articles
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "Sunni-Shi`i Differences in Iraq." Illinois International Review. 15 May 2006.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "Multiple Perspectives on Teaching World history – The Middle East." The Illinois International Review. 15 Jul. 2008.
- "Understanding Sunni-Shi`i conflict in Iraq." The Illinois International Review. 15 Jan. 2007.
Website Articles
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "“Next Steps in Egypt: A Minute with Ken Cuno, Expert on the Middle East.” On the first round of the Egyptian presidential elections. ." University of Illinois main web site. . 30 May 2012.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "“A Minute with Ken Cuno, Expert on the Middle East.” Following Obama’s Cairo speech.." University of Illinois main web site. . 4 Jun. 2009. University of Illinois.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "The Israel-Hamas Cease Fire." Global Viewpoint. 15 Jul. 2008. Illinois International.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "“A Minute with Ken Cuno, Expert on the Middle East.” On the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.." University of Illinois main web site. . 1 Feb. 2011.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "“Professor Ken Cuno discusses the recent protests and referendum vote in Egypt.” ." Illinois International Global Viewpoint. 17 Dec. 2012.
Encyclopedia Entries
- Cuno, Kenneth M. ""Middle East"." World Book Encyclopedia. Chicago: World Book, 2012.
- Cuno, Kenneth M., and Aaron Spevack. "Al-Bajuri, Ibrahim b. Muhammad." The Encyclopaedia of Islam 3 . 3rd ed. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "Household: Comparative Practices." Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "United States Policy towards the Middle East." Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450. Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2007.
- Cuno, Kenneth M. "Middle East." World Book Encyclopedia . Chicago: World Book, 2006.