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The restructuring of the core course requirements and course electives is underway and shall be finalized in the Fall of 2016-17. A seminar program will be initiated in the mid of the Fall of 2016-17. A special budget for the renovation of the computer lab located in PHYS 102 will be requested.
M. Al-Ghoul
Director
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
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SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS
The Department of History and Archaeology offered a wide range of courses during the academic year of 2015-2016. Professors Ahmad Dallal and Peter Dorman were on research leave for the entire academic year, Professors Paul Du Quenoy, Hermann Genz and Paul Newson were on research leave during the fall semester, Helen Sader was on research leave in the spring semester. Nadia El-Cheikh was not teaching in spring semester due to her position as Associate Provost.
At the graduate level, the program accepted 2 MA students, 2 prospective MA students and 3 Ph.D. students.
MA Theses:
1. Hratch Kestenian “A Portrait of Armenian Student Life at the Syrian Protestant College, 1885-1920” (September 14, 2015).
2. Naseem Raad “Roman Amphorae in the Near East: A Study of the Distribution of Spanish, North African, and Local Types” (December 17, 2015).
The Whittlesey Chair was filled by Dr. Francesco Nuñez, while the Howell Endowed Chair remained vacant. As in previous years, the Department welcomed a number of researchers as visiting affiliates.
The Department hosted the following lectures and events during the academic year:
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Paul Newson, “Niha and Hosn Niha: A Mixture of Roman and Local Cultural Identities” (January 20, 2016 – in cooperation with the Society of the Friends of the AUB Museum).Round Table Discussion and book launch: Alexis Wick: “The Red Sea: In Search of Lost Space” (March 22, 2016, in cooperation with the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies).
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Ali Yaycioğlu, “Order of Volatility: Power, Wealth and Death in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1850” (March 23, 2016, in cooperation with the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies).
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Lijdewijde de Jong, “Local Adopted Roman Funerary Practices in Tyre and Baalbek: Socio-Cultural Conclusions” (March 30, 2016 – in cooperation with the Society of the Friends of the AUB Museum).
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Martin Huth, “South Arabian Coinage and the Coinage of the Caravan Kingdoms: New Light on Pre-Islamic Arabia” (April 20, 2016, in cooperation with the Society of the Friends of the AUB Museum).
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Michael Provence, “A Beirut Murder Mystery, ca. 1937? Or the Final Months of the Forgotten Ataturk of the Arabs: Yasin Paşa al-Hashimi (April 26, 2016, in cooperation with the Office of the Provost).
Concerning Program Learning Outcomes, evaluation for the program in History and Archaeology is running smoothly, despite the recurrent issue of the low enrollment in both majors. The Department’s PLO committee is composed of the chairperson (for archaeology) along with one representative for
History. Evaluations are conducted on the basis of both direct and indirect methods of assessment: for the former, it mainly of data analysis in targeted courses (embedded questions in exams, content evaluation of written work, etc.); as for the latter, we have set up an anonymous exit survey for graduating students.
B. PERSONNEL
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Faculty Members
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Abu-Husayn, Abdulrahim
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Professor
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Ph.D.
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Armstrong, Lyall
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Assistant Professor
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Ph.D.
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Dallal, Ahmad
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Professor
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Ph.D.
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Dorman, Peter
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Professor
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Ph.D.
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Du Quenoy, Paul
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Associate Professor
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Ph.D.
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El-Cheikh, Nadia
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Professor
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Ph.D.
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Genz, Hermann
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Professor
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Ph.D.
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Kaidbey, Naila
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Part-time Lecturer
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Ph.D.
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Meloy, John
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Professor
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Ph.D.
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Newson, Paul
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Associate Professor
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Ph.D.
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Nurpetlian, Jack
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Part-time Lecturer
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Ph.D.
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Nunez, Francisco
Sader, Helen
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Visiting Professor
Professor
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Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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Seeden, Helga
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Professor
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Ph.D.
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Seikaly, Samir
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Professor
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Ph.D.
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Wick, Alexis
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Assistant Professor
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Ph.D.
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Research Assistants
None.
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Graduate Assistants
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Fall Semester
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El-Khalil, Marwan
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Shafei, Yasmin
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El-Khoury, Youssef
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Zaher, Rana
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Frye, Brittany
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Spring Semester
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El-Khoury, Youssef
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Shafei, Yasmin
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Frye, Brittany
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Zaher, Rana
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Non-Academic Staff
Osailly, Nabeeha Administrative assistant
C. TEACHING
1. Number of Graduating Majors
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BA
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Oct. 2015
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0
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Feb. 2016
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1
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May 2016
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4
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MA
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Oct. 2015
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1
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Feb. 2016
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1
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May 2016
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2. Number of Majors
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History
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Archaeology
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Total
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Ph.D.
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2
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0
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2
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Graduates
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7
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4
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11
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Seniors
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4
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9
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13
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Juniors
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5
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5
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10
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Sophomores
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4
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0
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4
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3. Student Enrollment in Courses
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Courses
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Summer ‘15
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Fall
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Spring
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Total
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300 and above
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1
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13
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13
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27
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211-299
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27
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321
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369
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717
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200-210
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-
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-
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26
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26
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100-199
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11
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170
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192
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373
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Total
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39
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504
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600
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1143
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4. Number of Credit Hours Offered
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Courses
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Summer ‘15
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Fall
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Spring
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Total
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300 and above
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3
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42
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15
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60
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211-299
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12
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57
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51
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120
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200-210
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-
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-
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3
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3
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100-199
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3
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21
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24
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48
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Total
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18
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120
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93
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231
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D. RESEARCH
Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
1. Writing the following two entries for the 3rd edition of the Encyclopedia of Islam: The Junblat Family, The Janbulad Family.
2. “A Preliminary Syriac, Aramaic and Arabic Lexical and Toponymical Survey of Beth Qatraye”, Principal investigator of a three year research project funded by QNRF.
3. Co-editor and contributor, In the House of Understanding: Histories in memory of Kamal Salibi, Expected publication date: summer 2016.
Armstrong, Lyall
1. The Qussas in Early Islam (Brill, forthcoming).
2. “The Qussas in Early Qur’an Commentaries,” paper presented at the American Oriental Society, Boston, MA, spring 2016.
Dallal, Ahmad
1. On October 22, 2015, I delivered a keynote address at the Science Teaching in Contemporary Islamic Societies conference, at the McGill Centre for Islam and Science, McGill University. The title of my presentation is “The Cultural Imperative: Towards Purposeful Science Research Agendas in the Contemporary Muslim World.” The address can be viewed at (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOy0QiZW8zE). The written paper is in its final format, and I will be submitting it for publication later this year.
2. The second research project for this sabbatical year is on the “Political Theology of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)”. I delivered a keynote address on this subject on January 23, 2016, at the conference The Arab Revolutions: Five Years On. The Arduous Road of Democratization and Future Prospects, jointly organized by the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. I am also delivering a revised paper on the same topic at George Mason University on May 12, 2016. I am currently making final edits to the paper, which I expect to finish and submit for publication by the end of May.
3. I am working on a paper on the “State of the Humanities in the Arab World,” which will be published in the journal of Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The paper is based on a March, 2014 presentation in Mumbai at the Columbia Global Humanities Project workshop, and is due in August 2016.
4. My fourth research project is a book entitled Islam Without Europe: Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth Century Islamic Thought. I am currently revising the written portion of the book and researching and writing the last chapter. I hope to finish the bulk of the research by the end of the sabbatical year or shortly after, and to submit for publication as soon as I finish. I am in conversation with a couple of potential publishers who expressed interest in the book.
5. On December 4, 2015, I participated in a public conversation with Robert Meister, who presented his work After Evil. I offered a response to Meister’s influential critique of human rights discourse.
6. On January 17-18, 2016, I participated in a workshop at the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University, Qatar entitled Re-envisioning the Arab State, and I presented a concept framework and led a conversation entitled “The State through Arab and Muslim Eyes”. The research and initial writing for this project was done in Fall, 2015, and I might develop this research further in the future.
7. On March 13, 2016, I presented a paper entitled “The role of public intellectuals in the changing landscape of higher education,” at the Asfari Institute conference Academia and Social Justice. The presentation can be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GbUlguUpYU
8. On April 24, 2016, I delivered the keynote presentation entitled (in translation) “On the Problematics of Writing an Arab History for the Culture of Science,” at the third Annual conference on historical studies organized by the Arab Center for Research and Public Studies, Arab Historiography and the History of the Arabs..
9. On May 5, 2016, I am presenting a paper at a workshop at NYU Abu Dhabi entitled “The Jews of Yemen: Intertwined Identities and the Distortions of Contemporary Historiography.”
10. Finally, I wrote a book review of Islam in Liberalism, by Joseph Massad for the Journal of Palestine Studies. The review will appear in the next issue of the journal.
Paul du Quenoy
1. “Imperial Russia and the Middle East” (book project).
2. “Alexander Serov and the Birth of the Russian Modern” (in press, to be published in 2016).
Nadia El-Cheikh
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Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity (Harvard University Press, 2015).
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Edited volume: Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Lina Choueiri and Bilal Orfali, One Hundred and Fifty, Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 2016.
Hermann Genz
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The Tell Fadous-Kfarabida Archaeological Project (2004-ongoing). Project leaders: Hermann Genz (2004-ongoing), Alison Damick (Columbia University, 2014-ongoing). Funding Agency: AUB-FAS (URB), Gerda Henkel Foundation (Germany). An excavation season was conducted in June of 2015 and another one is planned for summer of 2016.
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Publication of the excavations at Tell Hizzin, Lebanon, undertaken by M. Chéhab between 1949 and 1950 (2007-ongoing). Project leaders: Hermann Genz, Helen Sader.
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An Introduction to the Archaeology of Lebanon from Prehistory to Hellenistic Times (2006-ongoing). Project leaders: Helen Sader, Hermann Genz.
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Baalbek in the Bronze Ages: A Sounding in the Courtyard of the Jupiter Temple (2012-ongoing). Project leaders: Margarete van Ess (German Archaeological Institute), Hermann Genz. Funding Agency: AUB-FAS (URB), German Archaeological Institute (Germany). Work has been on hold since 2013 due to the security situation in the Bekaa.
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Excavations at Tell Mirhan and a Survey of the Chekka Region (2016- ongoing). Project leaders: Hermann Genz, Karin Kopetzky (Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology, Austrian Academy of Sciences and Humanities). Funding Agency: Austrian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. An exploratory season is scheduled for the summer of 2016.
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“Simple Bone Tools from Early Bronze Age Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon): a Household Approach.” Levant (accepted).
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“Economic and Political Organization of Early Bronze Age Coastal Communities: Tell Fadous-Kfarabida as a Case Study” With S. Riehl, C. Çakırlar, F. Slim and A. Damick). Berytus 59 (in press).
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“Iron Age Burial Customs in Central Anatolia: the View from Boğazköy,” in The Phrygian Lands over Time, ed. G. Tsetskhladze. Colloquia Antiqua. (submitted).
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“Bone Objects,” Tell el-Abd, Syria. The Syrian-German Excavations 1992-1994, Volume III: Small Objects and Environmental Studies, ed. U. Finkbeiner (submitted).
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Genz, H. (ed.), “Tell Fadous-Kfarabida I: The Site and its Environment” (submitted for review in November 2015).
John Meloy
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“Ibn Fahd.” The Encyclopaedia of Islam, third edition. Leiden: Brill (in press).
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“‘Aggression in the Best of Lands’: Mecca in Egyptian-Indian Diplomacy in the Ninth/Fifteenth Century.” Mamluk Cairo: Crossroads for Embassies. Leiden: Brill (Forthcoming in 2017).
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“The Judges of Mecca and Mamluk Hegemony.” Whither the Early Modern State? Fifteenth-Century State Formations across Eurasia (submitted).
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“Mamluk Rule on the Peripheries.” Paper presented at the second conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, University of Liège, June, 2015.
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“The Hijaz Entangled.” Paper presented at the conference “The Mamluk Sultanate and its Neighbors: Economic, Social, and Cultural Entanglements,” Annemarie-Schimmel-Kolleg, University of Bonn, December, 2015.
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Received a grant-in-aid from the Rockefeller Archive Center and carried out research for three weeks at the RAC in New York in July-August, 2015.
Paul Newson
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“Niha Valley Project: Pottery Assessment”(URB Grant). As Principal Investigator, continued analysis and publication of the collected data prior to commencing a third stage of fieldwork project.
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“Settlement and Landscape in the Basalt Region of Homs, Syria”. As Principal Investigator, engaged in final stage writing-up stage for the multi-authored monograph.
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Two articles in preparation: (1) “Archaeological landscapes of the Biqaa Valley past results and future prospects,” Berytus; and with H. Hamel, et al., “Archaeological assessment of the site at Niha; preliminary report 2014-2015.” BAAL: Bulletin d’Archéologie et d’Architecture Libanaises.
Helen Sader
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The Tell el Burak Archaeological Project (2001-); project leaders: Helen Sader, Jens Kamlah (Tübingen), Margarete van Ess (German Archaeological Institute, Berlin). Funded by URB- FAS, German Archaeological Institute, Gerda Henkel Foundation, Thyssen Foundation,University of Tübingen.
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This project aims to study the formation process of ancient settlements on the Lebanese coast with special emphasis on the Iron Age. One of the project’s main purposes is to give AUB archaeology students an opportunity to be trained in fieldwork with competent specialists.
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The Tell el-Kubbah Archaeological Project (2014-); project leaders: Helen Sader, Graham Phillip (Durham), Kamal Badreshany (Durham). The project will conduct a pedestrian survey and surface collection of artefactual material on Tell el-Kubbah in Selaata, North Lebanon, for the purpose of mapping, photographing, and delimiting the site’s boundaries, providing information useful for its protection. The project will also document and preserve the sections exposed during the construction of a railway line in the 1940s in order to establish the occupation history of the site.
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The Tell Hizzin Archaeological Project (2009-); project leaders: Helen Sader, Herman Genz (AUB). Inventory and publication of the artifacts excavated in 1949-1950 and stored in the storage of the Directorate General of Antiquities.
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Ökonomische Austauschnetze in Phönizien (2015-2016). Funded by Thyssen Foundation grant in cooperation with the University of Tübingen, Palermo, Cagliari, Pompeu Fabra and DAI Madrid. Grant: 36,000 Euros.
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With H. Genz, “An Introduction to the Archaeology of the Lebanon from Early Villages to the Coming of Alexander the Great” (Book project).
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With J. Kamlah, “The Tell el-Burak Archaeological Project Volume 1: Area I-II: Final Report on the Middle Bronze Age and Late Medieval Period Remains of the 2001-2011 Seasons of Excavation” (Book project).
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With U. Finkbeiner, “Final Report on the Excavations of Beirut, Site BEY 020” (Book project).
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“Inscriptions phéniciennes inédites du Liban”, to appear in the Proceedings of the 7th International Congress of Phoenician and Punic Studies, Tunis: Institut National du Patrimoine. (proofs corrected, article in press)
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“The Formation and Decline of the Aramaean States of First Millennium BC Syria,” to appear in the Proceedings of the international conference held in Marburg in 2010 on State Formation and State Decline in the Near and Middle East Past and Present which will be published by Harrassowitz. (proofs corrected, article in press).
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Eleven entries (Beirut, Orthosia, Khalde, Qana, Tell el-Burak, Ras el-Abiad, Tamburit, Yanuh, Dakerman, Adlun, and Lebanon) to appear in the Dizionario Enciclopedico della Civiltà Fenicia (An Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Phoenician Civilization) published by the Istituto delle Studi sulla Civiltà Italiche e del Mediterraneo Antico of the Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche; articles in press; some entries already published on line).
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“Prophecy in Syria: Zakkur of Hamath and Lu‘ash”; invited contribution to appear in Enemies and Friends of the State: Ancient Prophecy in Context, ed. Christopher A. Rollston, (Eisenbrauns); article in press.
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“A Phoenician Stamp Seal Impression from Tell Hizzin-Lebanon”, to appear in Festschrift Frances Pinnock to be published in the series Alter Orient und Altes Testament (article in press).
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“Phoenician Architecture and Town Planning”, to appear in Blackwell’s Companion to Ancient Phoenicia (article in press).
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With J. Kamlah and A. Schmitt, “The Tell el-Burak Archaeological Project: Preliminary Report on the 2011, 2013, and 2014 Seasons in Area 3.” To appear in BAAL 16 (article in press).
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“Aramaic and Phoenician Sources and Neo-Assyrian History”, to appear in Writing Neo-Assyrian History: Sources, Problems and Approaches. Proceedings of the International Meeting, University of Helsinki, September 22nd – 25th, 2014 (State Archives of Assyria Studies), ed. Raija Mattila, Robert Rollinger and Giovanni Lanfranchi (Helsinki 2015/2016); article in press.
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“Two Phoenician Stone Altars from Tell el-Burak-Lebanon”, Rivista di Studi Fenici (Festschrift of Sandro Bondi ); article in press.
Helga Seeden
1. Continued editorial work on the FAS journal Berytus (volumes LV-LVI, 2016), and AUB Souk excavation project, several volumes and numerous articles have been and continue to be published in Berytus and other peer-reviewed journals by members of the original excavation team (Tim Williams, Dominic Perring, Paul Reynolds, and Reuben Thorpe).
Samir Seikaly
1. Completing a research project focusing on the life and writings of Rafiq Rizq Sallum provisionally entitled ‘The Mind of a Martyr’ for presentation of the forthcoming CIEPO 22 Congress convening in Trabzon, Turkey, October 1206.
2. Submitted final proofs of an entry entitled “Lord James Arthur Balfour,” due to appear in the Online Encyclopedia of World War I sponsored by the Free University of Berlin.
3. Submitted final proofs of a study carrying the title “Tribes in Late Ottoman Syria: Local Representations,: due to appear in a volume arising from the CIEPO 21, Budapest Congress.
Alexis Wick
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The Red Sea: In Search of Lost Space; forthcoming from University of
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California Press.
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“Sailing the Modern Episteme: al-Tahtāwī on the Mediterranean,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 34:2 (Summer 2014): 405-417.
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“Genealogies of thalassology,” forthcoming in IJMES.
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