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About John Joseph (historian)
- John Joseph (born January 9, 1923) is an Assyrian-American educator and historian of Middle Eastern studies.
- He taught courses on the history of the Middle East and its relationship with the West at Franklin & Marshall College (F&M) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from 1961 to 1988. The son of refugees from the Assyrian Genocide in pre-Iran Persia, Joseph attended the American School for Boys in Baghdad.
- Pennsylvania missionary Calvin Staudt founded the school with his wife Ida.
- He occasionally sent students to his alma mater, F&M.
- Joseph arrived in 1946, received his degree from F&M in 1950, and subsequently earned a Ph.D from Princeton University.
- In his long teaching career at F&M, he inspired many students, including business executive Andrew Schindler, class of 1972, who contributed the leading sum for the construction of the Joseph International Center at F&M, dedicated to the study of the world's languages, culture, history and politics.
- Following his retirement from full-time teaching, Joseph has held the title of Lewis Audenreid Professor Emeritus of History.
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