2014 Election of Officers and Members of the Board
MESA is pleased to present the candidates in the 2014 Election of Officers and Members of the Board. Click on the candidate's name to go to their biography. Voting deadline is Friday, October 17, 2014, at 11:59 p.m., Mountain Standard Time.
Candidates for President-Elect
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Beth Baron
Professor of History, Graduate Center and City College, City University of New York, 2001-present; Founding Co-Director, Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, Graduate Center, CUNY, 2001-2013, and Director, MEMEAC, 2013-present; Director, MA in Middle Eastern Studies, Graduate Center, CUNY, 2008-present; Associate Professor of History, Graduate Center and City College, CUNY, 1994-2000; Assistant Professor of History, City College, CUNY, 1989-93; Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Franklin and Marshall College, 1988-89.
Education: PhD, History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1988; MA, Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1982; BA, History, Dartmouth College, 1980.
Service to the Profession: MESA: Editor, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2009-14; Publications Committee, 2009-14. Other Service: Editor, Contemporary Middle East Series, Cambridge University Press, 2010-14; advisory board, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 2010-14; member of the board of electors for the Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud Professorship, Oxford, 2014; Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize Committee, 2001-02; evaluator of manuscripts for California, Cambridge, Columbia, Harvard, Oxford, Princeton, Stanford, Syracuse, Texas, and Yale University Presses; reviewer for Feminist Studies, Gender and History, IJMES, Journal of Women’s History, Social Science History, Social Politics; reader for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, ACLS, and Fulbright fellowship competitions.
Awards and Grants: Carnegie Scholar, Islam and Muslim Societies, 2007-08; UISFL Department of Education Grants, 2005-12; University of Georgia, Visiting Scholar, 2004; Ford Foundation “Shifting Boundaries” Grant, 2000-03; Princeton University, Visiting Fellow, 1999-2000; ACLS Fellowship, 1995-96; NEH Summer Stipend, 1993; AHA Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant, 1990; ACLS Research Fellowship, 1989-90.
Publications: Authored: The Orphan Scandal: Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, Stanford University Press, 2014; Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics, University of California Press, 2005; The Women’s Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press, Yale University Press, 1994 (Arabic edition 1999). Co-edited: Iran and Beyond: Essays in Middle Eastern History in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie, Mazda, 2000, with Rudi Matthee; Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender, Yale University Press, 1991, with Nikki Keddie. Select Chapters in Edited Volumes: “The Port Said Orphan Scandal of 1933: Colonialism, Islamism, and the Egyptian Welfare State,” in Cultural Conversions: Unexpected Consequences of Christian Missionary Encounters in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia, ed. Heather J. Sharkey, Syracuse University Press, 2013; “Liberated Bodies and Saved Souls: Freed African Slave Girls and Missionaries in Egypt,” in African Communities in Asia and the Mediterranean: Identities between Integration and Conflict, ed. Ehud R. Toledano, Africa World Press, 2012; “An Islamic Activist in Interwar Egypt,” in Iran and Beyond; “The Making of the Egyptian Nation,” in Gendered Nations: Nationalism and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. Ida Blom et al., Berg, 2000. Select Articles: “The Origins of Family Planning in Egypt: American Experts, Aziza Hussein, and the State,” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 4, no.3 (Fall 2008): 31-57; “Women, Honour, and the State: Evidence from Egypt,” Middle Eastern Studies 42, no.1 (2006): 1-20; “The Meanings of Women’s Demonstrations in the 1919 Egyptian Revolution” (in Arabic), al-Nahj 11, no.41 (1995): 235-43; “Readers and the Women’s Press in Egypt,” Poetics Today 15, no.2 (1994): 217-40; “The Construction of National Honour in Egypt,” Gender and History 5, no.2 (1993): 244-55.
James L. Gelvin
Professor, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2005-Present; Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan Visiting Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, American University of Beirut, 2002-2003; Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1999-2005; Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995-1999.
Education: PhD, Harvard University, 1992; MA, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, 1985; BA, Columbia University, 1983.
Service to the Profession: MESA: Board of Directors, 2011-14 (Organized Hot Button Panel for 2012 Annual Conference, “How the Arab Uprisings Have Made us Rethink What We Knew about the Arab World”; liaison with Graduate Student Organization; Mentoring Award Committee; representative to CAF-NA; chair of Kadi Award Committee); Chair, Program Committee, 2004; Program Committee, 1997. Other Service: Academic Review Committee, University of Arizona School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies Academic Program, 2013; Project Evaluator, European Science Foundation, 2013; Consultant, 27th International Training Course, Geneva Centre for Strategic Policy; Los Angeles Teachers’ Education Project, 2013; Consultant, Congressional Quarterly, 2012, 2013; Advisory Board, Iranian Studies Program, UCLA, 2010-11; Consultant, 4 documentaries, 2010-2014; Advisory Board, Near Eastern Studies Program, UCLA, 2005; Participant, UCLA History-Geography Project (K-12 educators), 2006-Present; Advisory Board, Islamic Studies Program, UCLA, 1996-2004; Advisory Board, von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, 1995-Present.
Awards and Grants: UCLA Academic Advancement Program Faculty Recognition Award, 2008; Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007; Fellow, Center for American Politics and Public Policy, 2006-7; Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1999-2000; UC President’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities, University of California, 1999-2000; Mortar Board National Senior Honor Society Faculty Excellence Award, 1998; UCLA Academic Senate Research Grant, 1996-99, 2001, 2004-11.
Publications: Books: Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print, 1850-1930, co-editor with Nile Green, UC Press, 2013; The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know, OUP, 2012, 2015 forthcoming; Israel Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War, CUP, 2005, 2007, 2013, Polish edition 2008, Italian edition 2007; The Modern Middle East: A History, OUP, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2015 forthcoming, Italian edition 2008; Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire, UC Press, 1998. Select Articles and Chapters: “Reassessing the Recent History of Political Islam in Light of the Arab Uprisings,” in Fahed Al-Sumait et al. eds., Conceptualizing the Arab Uprisings: Origins, Dynamics, and Trajectories, Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming 2014; “The Arab World at the Intersection of the Transnational and National,” in David W. Lesch and Mark Haas, eds., The Arab Spring: Change and Resistance in the Middle East, Westview Press, 2012; “‘Modernity,’ ‘Tradition,’ and the Battleground of Gender in Early Twentieth-Century Damascus,” in Die Welt des Islams 52, 2012; “Nationalism, Anarchism, Reform: Understanding Political Islam from the Inside Out,” Middle East Policy, XVII, Fall 2010; “‘Arab Nationalism’ Meets Social Theory,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 41, 2009; “The Politics of Notables Forty Years After,” Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 40:1, June 2006; “Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc?: Reassessing the Lineages of Nationalism in Bilad al-Sham,” in Thomas Philipp and Christoph Schumann, eds., From the Syrian Land to the State of Syria, ERGON Verlag, 2004; “Modernity and Its Discontents: On the Durability of Nationalism in the Arab Middle East,” Nations and Nationalism 5, 1999. Other: 184 interviews with international media (2010-14); 76 invited lectures (2010-14).
Candidates for MESA Board of Directors
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Lisa Hajjar
Professor of Sociology, UCSB. Edward Said Chair of American Studies, American University of Beirut, 2014-15.
Education: PhD, Sociology, The American University, 1995; MA, Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 1986; BA, International Relations, Tufts University, 1983.
Service to the Profession: MESA: Nominating Committee, 2013; CAFMENA, 1996-98. Other Service: Program Committee, Law and Society Association, 2013; Human Rights Section Council, American Sociological Association, 2011-13; Vice-president, Sociologists without Borders, 2011-13; Chair, Law and Society Program, UCSB, 2006-9; University of California Initiative for Human Rights, 2007-9; UCSB Representative to University of California Academic Senate Committee on Academic Freedom, 2004-06, and Vice-chair 2006-07; Law and Society Association Executive Committee and Board of Trustees, 2002-04; American Civil Liberties Union—Santa Barbara Chapter, 2006-14, including Vice-president 2007-09 and 2010-12, and President 2012-14. Editorial Committee Service: Middle East Report 1994-99, 2001-07, 2008-present, including Chair 2003-2007; Co-founding co-editor, Jadaliyya 2010-present; Journal of Palestine Studies 2002-2013; Arab Studies Journal 2000-present; Cultural Anthropology 2005-2010; Law and Society Review 2000-05.
Awards and Grants: American Bar Association, Litigation Research Fund Grant (2010); Harold J. Plous Distinguished Junior Faculty Award, UCSB (2003); Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award, Middle East Studies Association (1995); John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Program in Global Peace and Security, Writing Grant (1994); Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Writing Grant (1993); National Science Foundation, Law and Social Science Program’s Global Perspectives on Sociolegal Studies, Dissertation Improvement Grant (1993).
Publications: Books: Torture: A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights (Routledge, 2013); Human Rights: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Vols. 1-5, Co-edited with Richard Falk and Hilal Elver (Routledge, 2008); Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza (University of California Press, 2005). Select Journal Articles: “Wikileaking the Truth about American Unaccountability for Torture,” Societies without Borders, 7 (2012); “Does Torture Work? A Socio-Legal Assessment of the Practice in Historical and Global Perspective,” Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 5 (2009); “Rights at Risk: Why the Right Not To Be Tortured Is Important to You,” Studies in Law, Politics and Society, 48 (2009); “International Humanitarian Law and ‘Wars on Terror’: A Comparative Analysis of Israeli and American Doctrines and Policies,” Journal of Palestine Studies, 36 (2006); “Religion, State Power and Domestic Violence in Muslim Societies: A Framework for Comparative Analysis,” Law and Social Inquiry 29 (2004).
Reşat Kasaba
Professor of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle 1999-present. Director, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Stanley D. Golub Chair in International Studies, 2010-present. Assistant then Associate Professor of International Studies, UW-Seattle, 1986-99.
Education: PhD SUNY Binghamton, 1986; MA SUNY Binghamton, 1978.
Service to the Profession: MESA: Nominating Committee, 1998; Selection Committee, Best Dissertation (Social Sciences), 2002, 2003 (chair). Other Service: Turkish Studies Association: President, 2010; Executive Committee, 1990-93, Best Book Award Selection Committee Chair, 1994, 2012; Social Science Research Council, Area Advisory and Fellowship Committee, 1993-2000. Fulbright: Area Advisory Committee, 1993-96. Association of Professional Schools of International Studies, Executive Committee, 2013-Turkish Science Academy, Elected member 2013-.
Grants: Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, 2005-06, 2000-01; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant to Organize a Sawyer Seminar on Ethnic Conflict in the Modern World, 2001-03; US Department of Education Title VI Grant for International Studies, PI, 1997-2000, 2000-03; SSRC, ACLS, Advanced Research Grant, 1992-93; National Science Foundation Grant for Doctoral Research, 1981-83. Awards: Jackson School Student Service Award, 1994, 2001; Distinguished Teaching Award, 1999; Liberal Arts Professor 1995-96.
Publications: Books: A Moveable Empire: Ottoman Nomads, Migrants, and Refugees, 2009; Cambridge History of Turkey, Vol. IV: Turkey in the Modern World, 2008 (ed.); World, Empire, and Society: Essays on the Ottoman Empire, 2005 (in Turkish); Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey, 1997 (Coedited); Rules and Rights in the Middle East: Democracy, Law, and Society, 1993 (Co-edited ); Cities in the World-System, 1991 (Edited); The Ottoman Empire and the World-Economy: The Nineteenth Century, 1988. Recent Articles: “Nomads and Tribes in the Ottoman Empire,” Christine Woodhead ed., The Ottoman World, 2012; “Turkey from the Rise of Atatürk,” The New Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. 5: Francis; “Antakya between Empire and Nation,” P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, Thalia Dragonas and Çağlar Keyder eds., Spatial Conceptions of the Nation, London, 2010; “Dreams of Empire, Dreams of Nations,” Joseph W. Esherick, Hasan Kayalı, and Eric Van Young eds., Empire to Nation: Historical Perspectives on the Making of the Modern World, Boulder, 2006; “Do States Always Favor Stasis? Changing Status of Tribes in the Ottoman Empire,” Joel Migdal ed., Boundaries and Belonging, 2004; “The Enlightenment, Greek Civilization, and the Ottoman Empire,” The Journal of Historical Sociology, 2003; “Izmir 1922: A Port City Unraveled,” Leila. Fawaz and C.A. Bayly eds., Modernity and Culture: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, 2002.
Jillian Schwedler
Professor of Political Science, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, 2013-present; Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2007-2013; Assistant and then Associate Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, 2000-2007 (promoted and tenured 2007).
Education: PhD, Politics, NYU, 2000; MA, Middle East Studies, NYU, 1993; BA, Near East Languages and Literatures, NYU, 1988.
Service to the Profession: MESA: Program Committee, 2009. Other Service: Steering Committee, Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS), 2010-present; Editorial Board, Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies, 2013-present; Editorial Board, Middle East Law and Governance, 2012-present; Steering Committee, Northeast Middle East Politics Workshop, 2011-present; Editorial Committee, MERIP, 1996-2001, 2014-present; Chair of the Board, MERIP, 2002-2009; Steering Committee, Palestinian-American Research Center, 2000-2002; review committees for USIP, Fulbright Scholars, Fulbright-Hayes, National Science Foundation, CAORC; co-leader, short course for American Political Science Association on Teaching the Middle East in Political Science, 2013; co-editor (with Bassam Haddad), Symposium on “Teaching the Middle East after the Arab Uprisings,” published in PS: Political Science, 2013.
Awards: Distinguished University Teaching Award, 2011, and Outstanding Teaching Award, 2010, both UMass; University of Maryland Award for Excellence in Mentoring, 2006; APSA Comparative Democratization Best Book Award, 2007. Funded Research: National Science Foundation, 2005-2008; USIP, 2006-2008; Fulbright New Century Scholar, 2003; Fulbright Scholar to Jordan, 1996-1997; CAORC, 1996-97; SSRC, 1996.
Publications: Books: Faith in Moderation (2006); Policing and Prisons in the Middle East, ed. (with Laleh Khalili) (2010); Islamist Movements in Jordan, ed. (1997); Toward Civil Society in the Middle East, ed. (1995). Textbook: Understanding the Contemporary Middle East, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th eds. Peer-reviewed Articles: “Islamists in Power? Inclusion, Moderation, and the Arab Uprisings,” Middle East Development Journal, 2013; “The Political Geography of Protest in Neoliberal Jordan,” Middle East Critique, 2012; “Can Islamists Become Moderates? Rethinking the Inclusion-Moderation Hypothesis,” World Politics, 2011; “Amman Cosmopolitan: Spaces and Practices of Aspiration and Consumption,” Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 2010; “Cop Rock: Protest, Identity, and Dancing Riot Police in Jordan,” Social Movement Studies, 2005; “Who Opened the Window? Women’s Activism in Islamist Parties” (with Janine Clark), Comparative Politics, 2003; “Insecurity Zones in South Lebanon” (with A.R. Norton), Journal of Palestine Studies, 1993. Additional Articles: Journal of Democracy; Democratization; PS: Political Science; Development; Middle East Report; Middle East Policy; SAIS Review of International Affairs, and thirteen book chapters. Online Articles: MERIP Online; Foreign Affairs Middle East Channel; Jadaliyya; Al-Jazeera English.
Heghnar Z. Watenpaugh
Associate Professor of Art History, University of California Davis, 2006-present; Assistant Professor of Architectural History, Aga Khan Career Development Professor, MIT, 2001-2005; Assistant Professor, Rice University, 1998-2001.
Education: PhD, Art History, UCLA, 1999; BA, UCLA, 1990; AA, Lebanese American University, 1988.
Service to the Profession: MESA: Nominating Committee, 2006; Program Committee, 2000. Other Service: Department co-chair, University of California Davis, 2014-2017; Board, Syrian Studies Association, 2010-2012; Board, Society of Architectural Historians, 2007-2010; Secretary-Treasurer, Newsletter Editor, Historians of Islamic Art, 2001-2002; Nominating Committee, Turkish Studies Association, 2001-2004; Editorial Advisory Committee, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2014-2017; Editorial Board, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, 2012-present.
Awards: Article Prize, Syrian Studies Association, 2007; Kostof Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians, 2006; Redhouse Prize, Turkish Studies Association, 1992. Grants: Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, 2008-09; President’s Humanities Fellowship, University of California, 2008-09; Getty Fellowship in the History of Art, 2004-2005; National Endowment for the Humanities, 2004; Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, Syria and Turkey, 1996-97; Social Science Research Council Fellowship, 1995-96.
Publications: Books: The Missing Pages: Art, Heritage and Genocide (Stanford University Press, forthcoming); The Image of an Ottoman City: Imperial Architecture and Urban Experience in Aleppo in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Leiden: Brill, 2004). Articles: “Architecture without Images,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2013; “Learning from Taksim Square: Architecture, State Power, and Public Space in Istanbul,” The Huffington Post, 2013; “The City’s Edge: Rethinking Sources and Methods for the Study of Urban Peripheries,” Annales Islamologiques 2012; “When Art and Religion Collide,” Los Angeles Times, 2010; “An Uneasy Historiography: The Legacy of Ottoman Architecture in the Former Arab Provinces,” Muqarnas 2007; “Deviant Dervishes: Space, Gender and the Construction of Antinomian Piety in Ottoman Aleppo,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2005. Select Chapters: “The Resonance of ‘Islamic Art and Architecture,’” in Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, eds. Gülru Necipoglu and F.B. Flood, forthcoming 2015; “The Harem as Biography: Domestic Architecture, Gender and Nostalgia in Modern Syria,” in Harem Histories ed. Marilyn Booth, 2010; “Knowledge, Heritage, Representation: The Commercialization of the Courtyard House in Aleppo,” in États et sociétés de l’Orient Arabe en quête d’avenir, ed. Gérard Khoury and Nadine Méouchy, 2007; “Museums and the Construction of National History in Syria and Lebanon,” in The British and French Mandates in Comparative Perspective, ed. Nadine Méouchy and Peter Sluglett, 2004.