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ACADEMIC HONORS Williams College July 2003-Present Hofstra University August 1999 - 2003 The College of the Holy Cross Spring 1999 University of Rhode Island Fall 1998 Yale University 1994 - 1998 RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq Fellowship, 2007 PUBLICATIONS Co-editor, with Sally Charnow, Teaching Difficult Subjects (Under consideration, Kumarian Press: Anticipated date of publication, 2008). Co-editor, with Hala Fattah, Visions of Iraq: History, Society and Culture (Under review with publisher in London: anticipated date of publication, 2008). Co-editor, with Abbas Amanat, The United States and the Middle East. Beyond the Stereotypes (Under contract with University of Florida Press, publication anticipated 2007). “1001 Fantasies: Modernizing the Past in 1950s Baghdad” in Modernism in the Middle East, edited by Kishwar Rizvi and Sandy Isenstadt (Under contract with University of Washington Press, 2007). “Archaeology and Nationalism in Iraq, 1921-2003” in Filtering the Past, Building the Future: Archaeology, Tradition and Politics in the Middle East, edited by Ran Boytner (Arizona State University Press, forthcoming, 2007). “The Sense of Belonging. The Politics of Archaeology in modern Iraq” in Philip Kohl (ed.) Peddling the Past (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming, 2007). Reclaiming a Plundered Past: Archaeology and the Nation in Modern Iraq 1921-1941 (University of Texas Press, 2005). “Sjálfsmynd Shíta í Írak og Íran” [in Icelandic] (Shi’ite identities in Iraq and Iran” in Glíman, an Icelandic journal of religion (Reykjavik, 2005). Píslarvottar Nútímans. Samspil trúar og stjórnmála í Íran og Írak [in Icelandic] (Martyrs of Modernity. Religion and Politics in Iran and Iraq) (Reykjavik: Mál og Menning, 2005). Book nominated as non-fiction book of the year in 2005 by Society of Icelandic Authors and Scholars. “Staða kirkju og kristni í Írak” [in Icelandic] (Christians and Christianity in Iraq) in Bjarmi (Reykjavik, 2003). Guest Editor, Radical History Review, v.86 Special issue devoted to “National Myths in the Middle East: Representations, Critiques, and Revisions.” (Duke University Press, Spring, 2003.) Also co-wrote Introduction. “Translating Ideas of Nationhood: A Case Study in Teaching Nationalism and National Identity in Middle Eastern History” in Radical History Review, v. 86 (Duke University Press, Spring 2003) (with Sally Charnow). Co-Editor, with Abbas Amanat, The United States and the Middle East: Cultural Encounters. Conference proceedings. (Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 2002). Also wrote Introduction. Co-Editor, with Abbas Amanat, Imagining the End: Apocalyptic Visions from the Ancient Middle East to Modern America (I.B. Tauris, London, 2001) Co-Editor, with Jeff Albert and Roger Kenna, Transformations of Middle Eastern Natural Environments: Legacies and Lessons. Published as part of the Bulletin Series of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (New Haven, 1998). Also co-wrote introduction. Ferd til Haifa, translation of an Arabic novella by Ghassan Kanafani into Icelandic. Broadcast in Rikisutvarpid (Icelandic State Radio, 1997). “The Separation of Church and State,”(Þjóðkirkjan og umræður um aðskilnað ríkis og kirkju) Samfélagstíðindi (Journal of the Social Science Studies Students, University of Iceland, 1991). “Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and the Antiquities Trade” and “HdO. Art and Archaeology of Afghanistan.” in Antiquity (forthcoming, 2008). “About Baghdad” and “Forget Baghdad” in Visual Anthropology Review (Forthcoming, 2007) “Orientalism and Visual Culture. Imagining Mesopotamia in Nineteenth-Century Europe” by Frederick N. Bohrer in MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies (June, 2004) “Discovering Islam: Making sense of Muslim History and Society” by Akbar Ahmed in Acta Sociologica. Journal of the Scandinavian Sociological Association (2003) “Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab World” by Bruce Masters in American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences v.20, n.3, (Herndon, VA, 2003) “Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism” by Roxanne L. Euben in American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, v.19, n.3 (Herdon, VA, 2002) “The Forgotten Muslims. The Arab Shi’a” by Graham E. Fuller and Rend Rahim Francke in Journal of Islamic Studies v.40 n.1. (Islamabad, 2001) “Imperialism. A Reader” by Bonnie G. Smith on the internet list H-WCIV. ACADEMIC LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS “Negotiating History. Archaeology and Nationalism in Modern Iraq”, Department of Visual Arts, Lecture Series, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. April 10, 2007 (Invited). “The War in Iraq. Four Years Later” International Scene, Hofstra University, March 14, 2007 (Invited). “Spreading the Word: Americans in 1950s Baghdad”, Middle East Studies Association, Annual Meeting, November 20, 2006 (Also Co-organizer of panel). “Iraq and the Middle East Today”, Salaam, Shalom, Peace Series on the Middle East. School of International Training Brattleboro Vermont, June 6th, 2006. (Invited) “An Old War or a New Battle? Interpreting the War in Iraq”, Empire, Resistance, and War, University of Texas, February 18, 2006. “Middle East Studies and Public Intellectuals” Anthropology Lecture Series, Anthropological Association of Iceland, Reykjavik, January 28, 2006. (Invited) “Is the Democratization of Iraq running out of gas?” Wednesday Seminars, University of Akureyri, Iceland, January 26th, 2006. (Invited) “Were the 1950s a “golden age” in Iraq?” Middle East Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November 20th, 2005. “Calm Before the Storm? Bill Clinton and 1990s Iraq” Bill Clinton Presidential Conference, Hofstra University, November 10th, 2005. (Invited) “Islam in Iran and Iraq: Trends, Scenarios, and Possible outcomes”, Public Forum, Religion and Politics: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East and the United States, Castleton State College, Castleton, Vermont, April 28, 2005. (Invited) “Recovering the Past. Archaeology and Nationalism in Iraq, 1921-2003” Iraq: Notions of Self and the Other Since the Late Ottoman Era, international academic conference, Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, Amman, Jordan 5-7 January 2005. (Invited) “Archaeology and Nationalism in Modern Iraq,” The Athenaeum, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California. part of lecture series The Islamic World: Past and Present. November, 15, 2004. (Invited) “Comparing Shi´ism in Iran and Iraq,” Public Lectures, University of Iceland, Department of Theology, , October 21-22, 2004. (Invited) “Contested Land, Contested Histories: The Narrative of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, plenary speaker, Iceland Model United Nations Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland. October 20, 2004. (Invited) “The U.S. and Iraq: Friend and/or Foe, 1921-2004” in lecture series The 2004 Vote. Understanding the Issues Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, October 4, 2004. (Invited) “Archaeology and Nationalism in Iraq, 1921-2003” in Filtering the Past, Building the Future: Archaeology, Tradition and Politics in the Middle East, Middle East Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 23-4, 2004. (Invited) “Nationalism and Nationalist Histories in Iraq” Workshop on History and Memory, International and Area Studies Memory Project, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. April 9, 2004. (Invited). “Fragments from Abroad: Archaeology and Nationalism in Iraq”, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2004 Interdisciplinary Lecture Series, March 4, 2004. (Invited) “The Legible Past: The Iraq Development Board and Modernist Plans for Baghdad, 1950-1958”Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska November 8, 2003. “Frank Lloyd Wright and the Development of Baghdad” Colloquium, University of Iceland, Department of History, October 14, 2003. (Invited) “Operation Iraqi Freedom for Whom? Women and the War in Iraq”, Conference on Women, War and Security, University of Iceland, Institute of Gender Studies, October 10, 2003. (Invited) “1001 Fantasies: Development, Architecture, and Modernizing the Past in Baghdad, 1950-58”, Yale School of Architecture and Department of the History of Art, Symposium: Local Sites of Global Practice: Modernism and the Middle East, Yale University, April 5, 2003. (Invited) “Interpretations of Iraqi National History”, symposium The War on Iraq, Cooper Union, New York, February 24th, 2003 (Invited) “Interventions in Iraq” workshop leader at Center for International Cooperation, New York University, New York, February 24th, 2003. (Invited) “Whither Iraq” Teach Out on the Prospects of War, City University Graduate Center, New York, October 24th, 2003. (Invited) “The Scramble for Antiquities: Iran and Iraq Compared” Iranian Studies Association, Biennial Conference, Washington DC, May 25, 2002. “Importing Ideas of Nationhood: The Transmission of European Ideas of Nation into the Middle Eastern Context” Nineteenth Century Knowledges, The Nineteenth Century Interdisciplinary Studies Conference, George Mason University, April 11-14, 2002 “The Middle East Peace Process”, Great Decisions Lecture Series, World Affairs Forum, Greenwich, Connecticut, March 14, 2002. (Invited) “Islamic Utopias: Radical interpretations of Islamic History”, Public Lecture, Department of History, University of Iceland, February 14, 2002. (Invited) “Haroun al-Rashid and Frank Lloyd Wright: Development and the Plans for Re-building Baghdad 1952-1958”, Graduate Workshop in Middle Eastern Studies, Yale School of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, February 7, 2002 (Invited) “Independence or Dependence: The Battle for Iraqi Archaeology, 1921-1963” Middle East Studies Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 17-20, 2001 “Middle Eastern Views of America, 1840-1991” Public Lecture, State University of New York, Old Westbury, November 4, 2001 (Invited) “Negotiating History: Nationalism and Cultural Property in Modern Iraq” The Middle East: Interpreting the Past, Nordic Society of Middle East Studies, 5th Conference, Lund, Sweden, October 27, 2001 “Recent Trends in Middle Eastern History” Public Lecture, Icelandic Historical Association, October 25, 2001 (Invited) “The Use of Jihad in Modern Islam” Rector’s Lecture Series, University of Iceland, October 24, 2001 (Invited) “From Mandate to Independence: Nation-Building in Iraq, 1921-1981” Yale College, April 4, 2001 (Invited) “Whose History? Whose Antiquities? Al-Husri, Bell and Iraqi Antiquities Legislation, 1921-1936” Middle East Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Orlando, November 18, 2000 "Comparing Teaching Methods in Icelandic Universities and Foreign Universities", Icelandic Ministry of Culture and Education, University Symposium, Iceland, February 19, 2000 (Invited) "A New Revolution? The Iranian Parliamentary Elections" Icelandic Political Science Association, Lecture Series, Reykjavik, Iceland, February 14, 2000 (Invited) “Why does Saddam Hussein Think He is Nebuchadnezzar? Politicizing Ancient History in Modern Iraq,” Re-covering the Past, Binghamton University, April 17-18, 1998 SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION AND COMMUNITY Board Member, The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII), October 2005- present. Annual Meeting Program Committee, Middle East Studies Association, April 2006. Steering Committee, Historians Against the War, April 2006-present. Speaker’s Bureau, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, Understanding the Middle East Lecture Series, September 2005-present. Speaker’s Bureau, National Institute of Technology and the Liberal Education, Arab Culture and Civilizations, (www.nitle.org), June 2005-present. Organized and co-taught a 6 session course on “A View from the North: An introduction to Scandinavian Culture” Berkshire Institute of Lifelong Learning (BILL), April 19- May 17, 2006, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Several talks on Islam and the Middle East at Williamstown Elementary School, April – May, 2006. Also coordinated College Student visit to Elementary School to discuss Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. “Clash of Civilizations? Islam and Europe” (March 2006), Institute of Continuing Education, University of Iceland. Workshop (4 evenings). “Videoconferencing as a pedagogical tool” Discussion with faculty at Vassar College, February 23, 2006 (via videoconferencing). Moderator, “Globalization” by Fareed Zakaria,Dowmel Lecture Series, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. January 11th, 2006. “Iceland Today” Berkshire International Club, November 8, 2005. Williamstown, MA. “Understanding Iran” North Adams Public Library, Understanding the Middle East Lecture Series, organized by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, September 27, 2005. Selected to be representative of US based historians at a workshop with Iraqi academics to discuss possible academic collaborations, Amman, Jordan, September 18-20, 2005. Organized by The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq. “Understanding Iraq” North Adams Public Library, Understanding the Middle East Lecture Series, organized by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, September 13, 2005. Organized and taught a five session course on “Islam. Past, Present, Future” Berkshire Institute of Lifelong Learning (BILL), April 12- May 10, 2005, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Massachusetts. “Understanding Islam” Workshop for Association for Religious Studies Teachers, Reykjavik, Iceland. March 2005. 2 day intensive workshop. “The Qur’an” (January 2005), Institute of Continuing Education, University of Iceland. Workshop (4 evenings) The United States and the Middle East. Ministry of Culture and the University of Iceland Institute of Continuing Education. Intensive workshop for Icelandic high school teachers, June 4-7, 2004. Islam, the West and Democracy. University of Iceland, Institute of Continuing Education, January 2004. Intensive workshop (4 evenings) on Middle Eastern – Western relations. Diversity, Islam and Globalization. Workshop for Elementary School Teachers in Reykjavik Iceland. Sponsored by the Reykjavik Educational Forum, January 20, 2004 Islam in the Middle East. Ministry of Culture and the University of Iceland Institute of Continuing Education. Intensive workshop on the Middle East for Icelandic high school teachers, June 27-30, 2003. Iran and Iraq in the 20th Century. University of Iceland, Institute of Continuing Education, January 2003. Intensive workshop on the political history of Iraq and Iran. Numerous lectures on Islam, Iraq and Middle East History at high schools, churches, school districts, ngo’s, country clubs, and private companies in the New York city area, October 2001-May 2003. Islam and Modernity. University of Iceland, Institute of Continuing Education, February 2002. Organizer and main teacher in intensive one-week seminar on modern Islam in the Middle East. The United States and the Middle East: Cultural Encounters. Yale University, December 2000. Main organizer of international inter-disciplinary conference jointly sponsored by Yale and Hofstra. The Middle East: Past, Present, and Future. University of Iceland, April 1999. Organized and co-taught a five-day intensive introductory seminar for students, faculty, and the general public. Millennialism: Motifs and Movements. A Sawyer/Mellon Seminar at Yale, September 1996- December 1998. Assisted in writing grant application and syllabus of interdisciplinary graduate-level seminar on millennialism and apocalypticism. Organized weekly lecture series. Transformations of Middle Eastern Natural Environments: Legacies and Lessons. International conference at Yale University, October 30 – November 1, 1997. Co-organizer of interdisciplinary conference with over 100 participants. Islamic Identities in Africa. University of London, April 1991. Assisted with planning, implementation, and administration of international conference. LANGUAGES Research competence in Arabic, German, Danish, and Icelandic. MISCELLANEOUS Book Review Contributor, Publishers Weekly, 1999- Manuscript reviewer for University of Florida Press, Routledge, Syracuse University Press, University of Texas Press, and American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences. Editorial Board, CyberOrient Contributor, The Scientific Web, University of Iceland. Member, Coalition of a Realistic Foreign Policy. Member of American Historical Association, Middle East Studies Association of North America, European Association of Middle East Studies, Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies, Icelandic Historical Association. Vice-President, American Scandinavian Society of New York, 2000 – 2001.
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