Sreemati Mitter

Institute of Advanced Study

Sreemati Mitter is a research fellow in history at the Institute of Advanced Study in Toulouse, France. At the time of recording, she was the Kutaiba al-Ghanim Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. She is completing her first book, entitled “A History of Money in Palestine: From the 1900s to the Present.” Her work examines the economic and monetary dimensions of statelessness. She received her PhD and MA in history from Harvard University and a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School.

Mitter’s videos are used in these Choices Program curriculum units:
The Iranian Revolution
The Middle East: Questions for U.S. Policy
The Syrian Civil War