MESA - Middle East Studies Association

2015 Nominating Committee Election

We encourage all Full members (Honorary Fellows, Fellows, and Students) to cast their vote for the 2015 Nominating Committee.

Eligibility: Only Full members (Honorary Fellows, Fellows, and Students) are eligible to vote. Associate members are not eligible.

Instructions: Review the candidate biographies (below). You may cast your vote electronically by completing the form below. You may vote for no more than five candidates, and you may not vote for a candidate more than once! The five candidates receiving the largest number of votes will serve on the committee. If you would prefer a ballot be mailed to you, please request one from Sara Palmer at [email protected].

In order for your ballot to be counted, you must supply your NAME and E-MAIL address for verification purposes. You must be a current MESA member for 2015 to vote; your membership status will be verified. If you have any problems, please contact Sara at the above email address or by phone at 520-626-4753.

Deadline: to be counted, all ballots—electronic and by post—must be in the office of the Secretariat by no later than Wednesday, March 11, 2015 AT 11:59 P.M. MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME.  

Candidates

Ovamir Anjum

Imam Khattab Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Toledo, in the departments of Philosophy and Religious Studies and History. He is currently Visiting Associate Professor of Public Policy in Islam at the Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies in Doha, Qatar. He is the author of Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment (Cambridge University Press, 2012). 

 

Uri Horesh
Assistant Professor of Instruction at Northwestern University, Uri serves as an Arabic instructor and Language Coordinator for the Program in Middle East and North African Studies. He is also Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Linguistics. He holds a PhD in Sociolinguistics from the University of Essex (2014) and is also a member of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, the American Anthropological Association, the Modern Language Association and the Linguistic Society of America, where he had served on the Committee for Social and Political Concerns. Several of his papers on language contact in Palestine are in the process of publication, and he is also a co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Arabic Sociolinguistics, scheduled to be published in 2016.

 

Amaney A. Jamal
Edward S. Sanford Professor of Politics at Princeton University and Director of the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice. Jamal also directs the Workshop on Arab Political Development. She currently is President of the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS). The focus of her current research is democratization and the politics of civic engagement in the Arab world. Jamal's books include Barriers to Democracy (winner 2008 APSA Best Book Award in Comparative Democratization), and Of Empires and Citizens published by Princeton University Press, 2012. Ph.D. University of Michigan (2003). In 2005, Jamal was named a Carnegie Scholar.

 

Mirjam Künkler

Mirjam Künkler (Ph.D., Columbia University) is Assistant Professor in the Department for Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, USA. She is co-convenor of the Princeton-Oxford research cluster on "Traditional Authority and Transnational Religious Networks in Contemporary Shi‘ism" and co-PI of the Iran Social Science Data Portal. She has edited with Alfred Stepan, Indonesia, Islam and Democracy, Columbia University Press (2013), and with John Madeley and Shylashri Shankar, A Secular Age: Beyond the West, (2015). Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the journals CSSH, JRAS, Journal of Law and Religion, Democratization, Politics and Religion, The American Behavioural Scientist, Party Politics, as well as edited volumes.

 

Matteo Legrenzi
Associate Professor, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. President, Italian Association for Middle Eastern Studies. D.Phil., International Relations, M.Phil., Modern Middle Eastern Studies, Oxford University. Visiting academic, St Antony’s College; Senior Research Associate, Centre for International Studies, Oxford. Monographs: The GCC and the International Relations of the Gulf: Diplomacy, Security and Economic Coordination in a Changing Middle East; Cognitive Analysis of Decisionmaking: The Case of Israel in the October 1973 Conflict. Edited volumes: Beyond Regionalism? Regional Cooperation, Regionalism and Regionalization in the Middle East; Shifting Geo-Economic Power of the Gulf: Oil, Finance and Institutions; Gulf Security: Legacies of the Past, Prospects for the Future.

 

Marc Lynch
Professor of Political Science and Director of Institute for Middle East Studies at George Washington University. He received his BA at Duke University and his MA and PhD at Cornell University, and taught at UC Berkeley and Williams College. His books include The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East; The Arab Uprisings Explained: New Contentious Politics in the Middle East; Voices of the New Arab Public; and State Interests and Public Spheres: The International Politics of Jordan's Identity. Lynch founded and directs the Project on Middle East Political Science, serves on the American Political Science Association Council, co-directs the Blogs and Bullets program at the US Institute for Peace, and edits the Monkey Cage political science blog on The Washington Post.

 

Alan Mikhail
Professor of History, Yale University; PhD and MA, University of California, Berkeley; BA, Rice University; author of The Animal in Ottoman Egypt (2014) and Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History (2011); editor of Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa (2013); articles in the American Historical Review, International Journal of Middle East Studies, International Labor and Working-Class History, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Global Environment, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and elsewhere; Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization editorial board, among various other book series and journal editorial boards; MESA Graduate Student Board Member (2004-05).

 

Nada Shabout
Professor of Art History and the Director of the Contemporary Arab and Muslim Studies Initiative (CAMCSI) at the University of North Texas. She is the founding president of the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art from the Arab World, Iran and Turkey (AMCA). She is currently co-editing the forthcoming volume Modern Art of the Arab World: Primary Documents, part of the International Program at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2017. She is the founder and project director of the Modern ArtIraq Archive (MAIA) and a member of the editorial committee of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP).

 

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Candidates for Nominating Committee

Ovamir Anjum
Uri Horesh
Amaney A. Jamal
Mirjam Künkler
Matteo Legrenzi

Marc Lynch
Alan Mikhail
Nada Shabout

 


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