Ann Pottinger Saab
{{Short description|American historian (1934–2019)}}
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| birth_name = Evelyn Ann Pottinger
| birth_date = December 18, 1934
| birth_place = Cambridge, Massachusetts
| death_date = January 25, 2019
| death_place = Greensboro, North Carolina
| occupation = Historian, college professor, writer
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Evelyn Ann Pottinger Saab (December 18, 1934 – January 25, 2019) was an American historian, professor, and college administrator based in North Carolina. She published three books of nineteenth-century European history and one novel, and was head of two departments at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG).
Early life and education
Pottinger was from Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of David T. Pottinger and Mildred Clark Pottinger.{{Cite news|date=1975-02-11|title=Obituary for Mildred (Clark) Pottinger|pages=23|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91106730/obituary-for-mildred-clark-pottinger/|access-date=2021-12-25|via=Newspapers.com}} Her father was assistant director of the Harvard University Press, and editor of college textbooks at D.C. Heath and Company.{{Cite news|date=1958-12-03|title=Obituary for David T. Pottinger (Aged 73)|pages=28|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46742864/obituary-for-david-t-pottinger-aged/|access-date=2021-12-25|via=Newspapers.com}} She graduated from Wellesley College in 1955,{{Cite web|date=Spring 2019|title=Alumnae Memorials|url=https://magazine.wellesley.edu/spring-2019/alumnae-memorials|access-date=2021-12-25|website=Wellesley Magazine}} and completed doctoral studies at Radcliffe College in 1962.{{Cite news|date=1966-08-09|title=Miss. Evelyn Pottinger Married to Elie G. Saab|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/08/09/archives/miss-evelyn-pottinger-married-to-elie-g-saab.html|access-date=2021-12-24|issn=0362-4331|via=Newspapers.com}} At Radcliffe, she won the Caroline Wilby Prize, for her dissertation, Napoleon III and the German Crisis, 1865-1866.{{Cite news|date=1962-06-13|title=Love Life, Radcliffe Seniors Told as 558 Get Diplomas|pages=18|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91088697/love-life-radcliffe-seniors-told-as/|access-date=2021-12-24|via=Newspapers.com}} Her dissertation was published by Harvard University Press in 1966.{{Cite book|last=Pottinger|first=E. Ann|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i8EfAAAAMAAJ|title=Napoleon III and the German Crisis, 1865-1866|date=1966|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-60050-8|language=en}}
Career
Pottinger joined the faculty of Middlebury College in 1962.{{Cite news|date=1962-09-21|title=16 Added to Faculty|pages=6|work=Rutland Daily Herald|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91106493/16-added-to-faculty/|access-date=2021-12-25|via=Newspapers.com}} She taught history and political science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) beginning in 1965, became a full professor in 1975,{{Cite news|date=March 29, 1975|title=Faculty Favored with Promotions|page=1|work=The Carolinian|url=http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/Carolinian/id/10917/rec/16|access-date=December 24, 2021}} and chaired the history department there from 1978{{Cite news|date=1978-08-21|title=College Newsmakers|pages=11|work=The Charlotte Observer|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91107229/college-newsmakers/|access-date=2021-12-25|via=Newspapers.com}} to 1984. She was also acting head of the classics department, associate dean of the graduate school,{{Cite web|date=June 7, 1994|title=UNCG Hosts Sixth Program for Research|url=https://greensboro.com/uncg-hosts-sixth-program-for-research/article_38776248-07eb-555e-a18f-d2f335a06416.html|access-date=2021-12-25|website=Greensboro News and Record|language=en}} and assistant chancellor of the university.{{Cite web|last=Unrue|first=Mark Edward|date=2019-01-29|title=In memoriam: Dr. Ann Saab|url=https://news.uncg.edu/in-memoriam-dr-ann-saab/|access-date=2021-12-25|website=UNCGNews|language=en-US}} She co-directed the sixth annual Human Development Research Institute at UNCG in 1994.
Publications
In addition to her first book, based on her dissertation, Saab was the author of The Origins of the Crimean Alliance (University of Virginia Press 1977),{{Cite book|last=Saab|first=Ann Pottinger|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2645271|title=The origins of the Crimean alliance|date=1977|publisher=University Press of Virginia|isbn=0-8139-0699-7|location=Charlottesville|oclc=2645271}} and Reluctant Icon: Gladstone, Bulgaria, and the Working Classes, 1856–1878 (Harvard University Press 1991).{{Cite book|last=Saab|first=Ann Pottinger|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22911349|title=Reluctant icon : Gladstone, Bulgaria, and the working classes, 1856-1878|date=1991|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=0-674-75965-6|location=Cambridge, Mass.|oclc=22911349}}{{Cite web|date=January 22, 1992|title=Dr. Saab's Book Published by Harvard Press|url=https://greensboro.com/dr-saabs-book-published-by-harvard-press/article_c9ff7cbf-85fd-5718-9c19-3ae55f368f4c.html|access-date=2021-12-25|website=Greensboro News and Record|language=en}} She also translated historical writing. for example The peace of Paris, 1856: Studies in war, diplomacy, and peacemaking (1981) by Winfried Baumgart.{{Cite book|last=Baumgart|first=Winfried|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7179129|title=The peace of Paris, 1856 : studies in war, diplomacy, and peacemaking|date=1981|publisher=ABC-Clio|isbn=0-87436-309-8|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|translator-last=Saab|translator-first=Ann Pottinger|oclc=7179129}} Articles by Saab appeared in The Muslim World, The Journal of Modern History,{{Cite journal|last=Saab|first=Ann Pottinger|date=1977-12-01|title=The Doctors' Dilemma: Britain and the Cretan Crisis 1866-69|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/241660|journal=The Journal of Modern History|volume=49|issue=S4|pages=D1383–D1407|doi=10.1086/241660|s2cid=144457135 |issn=0022-2801|url-access=subscription}} The International History Review,{{Cite journal|last=Saab|first=Ann Pottinger|date=1997-06-01|title=Foreign Affairs and New Tories: Disraeli, The Press, and the Crimean War|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.1997.9640785|journal=The International History Review|volume=19|issue=2|pages=286–311|doi=10.1080/07075332.1997.9640785|issn=0707-5332|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Saab|first=Ann Pottinger|date=1988-11-01|title=Disraeli, Judaism, and the Eastern Question|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.1988.9640491|journal=The International History Review|volume=10|issue=4|pages=559–578|doi=10.1080/07075332.1988.9640491|issn=0707-5332|url-access=subscription}} and French Historical Studies,{{Cite journal|last1=Saab|first1=Ann P.|last2=Knapp|first2=John M.|last3=Knapp|first3=Françoise de Bourqueney|date=1986|title=A Reassessment of French Foreign Policy during the Crimean War Based on the Papers of Adolphe de Bourqueney|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/286535|journal=French Historical Studies|volume=14|issue=4|pages=467–496|doi=10.2307/286535|jstor=286535 |issn=0016-1071|url-access=subscription}} including:
- "The Doctors' Dilemma: Britain and the Cretan Crisis 1866-69" (1977)
- "English and Irish reactions to the massacres in Lebanon and Syria, 1860" (1984)
- "A Reassessment of French Foreign Policy during the Crimean War Based on the Papers of Adolphe de Bourqueney" (1986, with John M. Knapp and Françoise de Bourqueney Knapp)
- "Foreign Affairs and New Tories: Disraeli, The Press, and the Crimean War" (2010)
- "Disraeli, Judaism, and the Eastern Question" (2010)
In retirement, she wrote a novel, Bathsheba's Book: A Woman's Tale (2014).{{Cite news|date=2014-08-31|title=Grateful Steps Publishes 'Bathsheba's Book'|pages=D4|work=Asheville Citizen-Times|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91106291/grateful-steps-publishes-bathshebas/|access-date=2021-12-25|via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite web|last=Miller|first=Barry|date=September 28, 2015|title=Ann Saab and Lollie White to Engage in Conversation about Their Books on October 29|url=http://uncgfol.blogspot.com/2015/09/ann-saab-and-lollie-white-to-engage-in.html|access-date=2021-12-25|website=Friends of the UNCG Libraries}}
Personal life
Pottinger married Elie (Elias) Georges Saab in 1966, in Lebanon. They had two sons, David and Georges. Her husband died in 2004,{{Cite web|date=September 28, 2004|title=Obituaries: Elias G. Saab|url=https://greensboro.com/obituaries/article_3f1e5ffe-0998-54e5-bc1c-1d672c9beba6.html|access-date=2021-12-25|website=Greensboro News and Record|language=en}} and she died in 2019, aged 84 years, in Greensboro, North Carolina.{{Cite web|date=January 29, 2019|title=Saab, Dr. Ann Pottinger|url=https://greensboro.com/obituaries/saab-dr-ann-pottinger/article_614ad2ef-dc9f-5534-94b2-14c131f99d7e.html|access-date=2021-12-25|website=Greensboro News and Record|language=en}}
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