Curriculum Vitae

Last Updated: 30 August 2024

Department of History
University of Colorado Denver
1201 Larimer Street
Denver, CO 80204

Education

Ph.D., History, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2014
- Dissertation: “The Two Rivers: Water, Development and Politics in the Tigris-Euphrates Basin, 1920-1975.”
M.Phil., History, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2010
M.A., History, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2008
B.A., History and Drama, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2002

2024-Present: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Colorado Denver
2015–2024: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Colorado Denver
2014–2015: Postdoctoral Humanities Research Fellow, New York University Abu Dhabi

Forthcoming, Jan 2026: Stahl, Dale J. Two Rivers Entangled: An Ecological History of the Tigris-Euphrates River Basin. Stanford University Press.
2008: Hall, K., and Stahl, D. An Argument for Documenting Casualties: Violence Against Iraqi Civilians 2006. RAND Corporation.
2008: Kaye, D. D., Wehrey, F., Grant, A. K., & Stahl, D. More Freedom, Less Terror?: Liberalization and Political Violence in the Arab World. RAND Corporation.
2008: Oweidat, N., Benard, C., Stahl, D., Kildani, W., & O’Connell, E. The Kefaya Movement: A Case Study of a Grassroots Reform Initiative. RAND Corporation.

2021: Stahl, Dale J. “The Dam as Catastrophe: Connecting Geological Models to Modern History.” Water History, 13(1): 137–160.
2019: Stahl, Dale J. “A Technopolitical Frontier: The Keban Dam Project and Southeastern Anatolia.” In Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey: Landscapes, State and Environmental Movements, eds. Onur Inal and Ethemcan Turhan. Routledge Environmental Humanities.

2018: Stahl, Dale J. An Analysis of Hanna Batatu’s “The Old Social Classes and Revolutionary Movements of Iraq.” CRC Press, Macat Library.
2017: Stahl, Dale J. An Analysis of Ernest Gellner’s “Nations and Nationalism.” CRC Press, Macat Library.

2024: “The (Non-)Fictions of Extraction: Connecting Linguistic and Material Constructions in the Tigris-Euphrates River Basin,” American Society of Environmental History, Denver, CO.
2023: “Master Plans and Science Fictions, Part II: Imaginative Constructions and World-Making in the Southeast Anatolia Project,” Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, Athens, Greece.
2022: “Master Plans and Science Fictions: Imaginative Constructions and World-Making in the Southeast Anatolia Project,” Middle East Studies Association, Denver, CO.

2023: “Master Plans and Science Fictions: Imaginative Constructions and World-Making in Southeastern Anatolia,” Development, Politics, and Infrastructures in the Eastern Mediterranean, Athens, Greece.

University of Colorado Denver
- Environmental History of North America (HIST 3366)
- Foundations of International Studies (INTS 2020)
- A Global History of Energy (HIST 3616/5616)
- Graduate Readings: Approaches to Global History (HIST 6931)
- Islam in Modern History (HIST 4462/5462)
- The Modern Middle East (HIST 4461/5461)
Columbia University
- An International History of Oil and Water (HIST S3932)