Janina Santer

Janina S. Santer is a Ph.D. student and Richard Hofstadter Fellow in the History Department at Columbia University, researching the history of the Lebanese state in the 1940s-1950s.

Before moving to New York, she completed a M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies at the American University of Beirut. 

Her interests include the social, intellectual, and cultural history of modern Lebanon and her work has been published in Arabic translation in Bidayat °28-29/2020 (Nashʿat al-qiṭāʿ al-siyāḥī wa namūdhaj “lubnān swīsrā al-sharq”).