Arabic-L:GEN:U Texas recruiting talented grad students
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Date: 10 Oct 2006
From:"Mahmoud M Al-Batal" <albatal at austin.utexas.edu>
Subject:U Texas recruiting talented grad students
Dear Colleagues,
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies (DMES) at the University of
Texas at Austin is proactively recruiting talented graduate students
this year for our programs in Arabic, Hebrew and Persian Studies. I
would like to call on your goodwill to help spread the word to
qualified applicants you might know.
Our degree programs lead to an MA or PhD in Arabic, Hebrew or Persian
Studies, though we are able to accommodate students interested in
Islamic or Jewish Studies under the aegis of the three degree plans.
With the support the Dean of Liberal Arts and the UT Provosts'
Office, we have been able in the past six years to add thirteen
hires: Mohammad Mohammad (Arabic linguistics), Samer Ali (Arabic
literature), Karen Grumberg (Jewish and Hebrew Studies), Hina Azam
(Arabic and Islamic Studies), Ami Pedahzur (Middle Eastern Studies
and Government), Yoav Di-Capua (Middle Eastern Studies and History),
Jason Brownlee (Middle Eastern Studies and Government), Fehintola
Mosadomi (Yoruba language and culture), Sonia Seeman (Middle Eastern
Ethnomusicology) and George Gavrilis (Middle Eastern Studies and
Government), as well as Nader Morkus (Arabic language), Kristen
Brustad (Arabic sociolinguistics) and Mahmoud Al-Batal (Arabic
pedagogy).
DMES has also received substantial financial support for graduate
education from the College and the Office of Graduate Studies in the
form of 11 TA positions for graduate students in Arabic, 3 in Hebrew,
and 2 in Persian. Moreover, as a Title VI institution, we are able to
offer FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) fellowships to support
advanced study of Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian. Beyond that, the
Department is usually given two prestigious recruitment grants for
the most qualified applicants. In total, while funding levels may
change, we expect to able to admit and fund approximately twelve
graduate students for Fall 2007. We may admit a small number of
additional students without funding.
Our deadline for admissions and funding applications is Dec. 11, 2006.
http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/ <http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/> <http://
www.utexas.edu/ogs/ <http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/> >
If you or your friends would like more information about UT, DMES or
the City of Austin, please feel free to contact me off list. I will
also attend the Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Assn (MESA)
in Boston MA, Nov 18-21.
http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/MESA05/mesa05.htm <http://
fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/MESA05/mesa05.htm> <http://fp.arizona.edu/
mesassoc/MESA05/mesa05.htm <http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/MESA05/
mesa05.htm> >
I would be happy to meet and discuss our programs. Dr. Raizen, DMES
Chair, and Kamran Aghaie, DMES Associate Chair and Director of UT's
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, will also be at MESA, and will be
glad to meet with you as well.
Below, I have included a comprehensive list of active faculty who
contribute to our graduate curriculum:
Peter F. Abboud, Professor, Arabic Studies, Arabic syntax and
phonology; Arabic dialectology; medieval Arabic grammar and
grammarians; socio-linguistics; history of the Arabic language
Kamran S. Aghaie, Associate Professors, Middle Eastern Studies,
History. Islamic studies, Shi'ism, modern Iranian history, and modern
Middle Eastern history; secondary areas of interest include world
history, historiography, religious studies, nationalism, gender
studies and economic history
Mahmoud Al-Batal, Associate Professor, Arabic Studies and
Linguistics. Arabic language pedagogy, Arabic as a second language.
Kamran Asdar Ali, Associate Professors, Middle Eastern Studies and
Anthropology. Gender, development, health, political economy,
critique of development, post-colonialism, labor history, Middle
East, Egypt, South Asia
Samer Mahdy Ali, Assistant Professor, Arabic Studies, Comparative
Literature and Islamic Studies. Islamic kingship, court literature
and patronage, classical historiography, modern and medieval folklore
and folklife, Arab women poets, oral performance of Homeric epic,
literary criticism.
Hina Azam, Assistant Professor, Islamic, Arabic and Religious
Studies. Islamic law and jurisprudence, women and Islam. Qur'an,
Hadith, Sufism, theology, ethics.
Aaron Bar-Adon, Professor, Hebrew and Jewish Studies,
Sociolinguistics and language acquisition; Hebrew and Arabic
language, literature, and linguistics
Jason Brownlee, Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern Studies and
Government, Democracy and democratization in the Middle East.
Kristen Brustad, Associate Professors, Arabic Studies and
Linguistics. Arabic dialects, sociolinguistics and Arabic language
pedagogy.
Mounira Charrad, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Studies and
Sociology. Gender and women's rights; political sociology;
development; and comparative historical methodology
Diana K. Davis, Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern Studies and
Geography. Medical geography, ethnoveterinary medicine, political
ecology, gender, environment, and development, pastoral societies,
range ecology, gender, North Africa.
Yoav Di-Capua, Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern Studies and
History. Modern Arab Thought with an emphasis on Egypt.
David J. Eaton, Professor, Middle Eastern Studies and LBJ School of
Public Affairs, Water; natural resources; agriculture; health; urban
services; water management in the Jordan River Basin; public
administration, management, and dispute resolution
Yildiray Erdener, Senior Lecturer, Turkish Studies. Turkish
language; folklore and ethnomusicology of Turkey and the Turkic
Republics. Turkish minstrel music, folklore and music of the Middle
East and Central Asia
George Gavrilis, Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern Studies and
Government. Politics of the Middle East.
Mohammad Ghanoonparvar, Professor, Persian Studies and Comparative
Literature, 20th century Persian literature; comparative literary
history and criticism; methodology and practice of literary translation
Kate Gillespie, Associate Professors, Middle Eastern Studies and
McComb School of Business. International marketing; macromarketing
Karen Grumberg, Assistant Professor, Hebrew Studies. Contemporary
Hebrew literature, American Jewish literature, Comparative Jewish
literatures, Mizrahi writing, women's writing in Israel
Barbara J. Harlow, Professor, Arabic Studies and English, Colonial
and resistance literature of the Middle East and Africa
Clement Moore Henry, Professor, Middle Eastern Studies and LBJ School
of Public Affairs. Comparative politics of the Middle East and North
Africa; financial systems and business elites; international business
(oil and political risk analysis).
Michael Craig Hillmann, Professor, Persian Studies. Persian language
and literature; Iranian art and culture; literary biography
Harold A. Liebowitz, Professor, Hebrew and Jewish Studies,
Archaeology and art history of the land of Israel in the Biblical and
Greco-Roman periods; art and archaeology of the Ancient Near East
with particular emphasis on the Late Bronze to Mamluk Periods in
Israel, Jordan, and Syria; daily life in Ancient Israel; material
culture and literature of the period of the Mishnah and Talmud;
medieval Jewish illuminated manuscripts from Spain, and Old Testament
narrative painting from the Byzantine period until the Renaissance
William Roger Louis, Professor, Middle Eastern Studies, History,
British Studies. British Empire in the Middle East, especially in the
post-1945 period; the contemporary Middle East
Ian Manners, Professor, Middle Eastern Studies and Geography.
Resource management with particular reference to ecological and
socioeconomic processes influencing decision-making; ecologically
sustainable development; environmental impact assessment and mitigation
Abraham Marcus, Associate Professors, Middle Eastern Studies,
History and Arabic Studies. Arab and Ottoman history; Islamic
history; social history of the Middle East; music cultures of the
Middle East
Mohammad A. Mohammad, Associate Professors, Arabic Studies.
Linguistics and the Arabic language
Nader Morkus, Lecturer, Arabic Studies. Discourse analysis,
intercultural communication between Arabs and Americans, the use of
technology to enhance intercultural communication. Modern Standard
Arabic and Egyptian Colloquial.
Fehintola Mosadomi, Assistant Professor, Yoruba language and culture,
Yoruba women.
Adam Zachary Newton, Professor, Middle Eastern Studies, English,
Jewish Studies. Comparative Jewish literatures; modern Jewish
thought; 19th-century British, 20th century-American literature
Ami Pedahzur, Associate Professors, Middle Eastern Studies and
Government. Political extremism in Israel, political violence and
political parties.
Esther L. Raizen, Associate Professors, Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Modern and classical Hebrew language, linguistics and literature;
courses taught: Hebrew as a foreign language; Jewish history and
culture; Computer-assisted instruction and computational linguistics;
Academic advising and student development
Sonia Seeman, Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern Ethnomusicology,
"gypsy" music of Turkey.
Yaron Shemer, Senior Lecturer, Middle Eastern Studies and School of
Communication (Radio Television Film). Israeli film; Hebrew language
and cultures
Faegheh S. Shirazi, Associate Professors, Middle Eastern and Islamic
Studies. Textiles, dress, and material culture in the Middle East;
the meanings of veiling
Denise A. Spellberg, Associate Professors, Middle Eastern and
Islamic Studies, History. Middle East history and religion; medieval
Islamic history; women's studies
Helene Tissieres, Assistant Professor, French and Italian, Middle
Eastern Studies, Francophone African Literatures.
Karin S. Wilkins, Associate Professors, Middle Eastern Studies and
School of Communication (Radio Television Film). Development
communication as it relates to international health, population and
environmental issues, media studies
Monica Yaniv, Lecturer, Hebrew Studies. Hebrew language and pedagogy.
Abraham Zilkha, Associate Professors, Hebrew, Arabic and Jewish
Studies. Hebrew language and linguistics; modern Israel
This is a skeleton of UT's human resources related to the Middle
East. Please feel free to peruse the websites of other depts for
faculty in Government, Communication (Radio Television Film),
Linguistics, School of Education (Foreign Language Education),
Spanish and Portuguese, French and Italian, Architecture, Art and Art
History, Information Science (Library School), Law, LBJ School of
Public Affairs, etc. MES grad students are encouraged to take classes
outside MES if they complement their program of work.
One facet that is perhaps unique to UT is our offering of five
registers of Arabic: modern standard, classical, Qur'anic, as well as
Levantine and Egyptian colloquial.
Moreover, the Dept of Middle Eastern Studies stresses the
interconnections between the Persian, Hebrew and Arabic traditions as
well as Islamic and Jewish Studies. For example, in the next five
years, Prof. Grumberg and I plan to develop a course that
particularly focuses on the intersections of Hebrew and Arabic
cultures in medieval Spain, and of course in modern times, stressing
the writings of Mizrahi authors and Palestinian writers who write in
Hebrew (such as Anton Shammas). A similar course is planned for
Hebrew and Arabic grammar.
There is ample info about UT's libraries at
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/help/librarylist.html <http://
www.lib.utexas.edu/help/librarylist.html> <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/
help/librarylist.html <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/help/
librarylist.html> >
As well as the Middle Eastern Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/subject/melp/index.html <http://
www.lib.utexas.edu/subject/melp/index.html> <http://
www.lib.utexas.edu/subject/melp/index.html <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/
subject/melp/index.html> >
which includes holdings in English, French, German, Italian, Arabic,
Hebrew, Persian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Tajiki and Kurdish housed
mostly at the Perry-Castañeda (Main) Library (PCL),
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/pcl/ <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/pcl/>
<http://www.lib.utexas.edu/pcl/ <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/pcl/> >
Rare books and manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/ <http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/> <http://
www.hrc.utexas.edu/ <http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/> >
Please feel free to ask me questions.
I wish you all the best,
Samer Ali
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Samer M. Ali, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Arabic Studies
Comparative Literature
Graduate Advisor,
Dept of Middle Eastern Studies
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Dept of Middle Eastern Studies
University of Texas at Austin
One University Station, F9400
Austin, TX 78712
512-471-3881
512-471-7834 (fax)
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Fall Office Hours: W 2-5pm, WMB 6.112
Learn more about Arabic Studies at UT?
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/mes/arabic/ <http://www.utexas.edu/
cola/depts/mes/arabic/>
Know the US Public Dept?
http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm <http://
www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm>
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Samer M. Ali, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Arabic Studies
Comparative Literature
Graduate Advisor,
Dept of Middle Eastern Studies
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Dept of Middle Eastern Studies
University of Texas at Austin
One University Station, F9400
Austin, TX 78712
512-471-3881
512-471-7834 (fax)
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Fall Office Hours: W 2-5pm, WMB 6.112
Learn more about Arabic Studies at UT?
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/mes/arabic/
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