Graduate studies committee

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES
Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
1. Continue to serve as editor, Handbook and Entries sections, 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of The First World War, published online since 1914, Free University of Berlin.

2. Co-organizer of the forthcoming conference “1516: the Year that Changed the Middle East and the world”, scheduled for 7-9 December 2016.

3. Gave two invited lectures at the Doha Institute for Graduate studies, March 2016.


Armstrong, Lyall

1. 
   “Early Islamic History: The Life of the Prophet Muhammad,” lecture in the course, “Introduction to Islamic Studies,” led by Professor Nader el-Bizri, AUB, fall 2015.
   
2. 
   “Wadad al-Qadi: Mentor,” presentation in honor of Prof. Wadad al-Qadi for the 150^th anniversary celebration of FAS, spring 2016.
   
3. 
   Member of Steering Committee, Center for the Arts and Humanities.
   
4. 
   Member of Steering Committee, Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies.
   
5. 
   Freshman Advisor.
   
6. 
   Faculty Advisor, H.O.P.E. club and Crossroads club.
   

Dallal, Ahmad
1. Served on an ad hoc committee to plan a one-day conference at AUB in Fall 2016 on the legacy of former AUB professor and public intellectual Constantine Zurayk.

2. Served on the review panel of the Asfari Institute Visiting Fellowship applications.

3. Served as an outside reviewer of one research proposal submitted to the Templeton Foundation and several grant proposals submitted to the Qatar Foundation. I also served as an evaluator of a promotion and tenure dossier for Northwestern University.

4. Member of the Joint Advisory Board of Georgetown University in Qatar, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University in Qatar.

5. Member of the Board of Trustees, and Chair of the Academic affairs Committee of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.

6. Member of the External Advisory Board of MEDSPRING (Mediterranean Science, Policy, Research & Innovation Gateway), a European Union INCONET project coordinated by CIHEAM.

7. Member of an International Review committee of the Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University.

8. Member of the Arab Social Science Monitor at the Arab Council for the Social Science.

9. In April, 2016, I served on the MSCHE re-accreditation review team of Ming Chuang University (Taipei).
Paul du Quenoy

1. 
   Served on the FAS Curriculum Committee, Spring and Fall 2014.
   
2. 
   Foreign Visiting Fellow, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan, Fall 2015.
   
3. 
   External reviewer for Revolutionary Russia and Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History.
   
4. 
   Chairman, The Russian Ball, Washington, DC.
   
5. 
   Teaching in the Fine Arts and Art History Department (Spring 2016).
   
6. 
   Free-lance music criticism.
   
7. 
   Supervised CAMES M.A. Thesis: Susannah Stephens, “The Caucasus Emirate in the Age of ISIS: A Short History of the Islamic ‘States’ in the Caucasus” (defended April 25, 2016).
   

Nadia El-Cheikh
1. “Public Book presentation of Women, Islam and Abbasid Identity,” lecture at the Orient Institut, Beirut, April 2016.

2. _{“The Emergence of Islam in its Pre-Islamic and Byzantine Contexts,” lecture at the Agha Khan University, ISMC, Istanbul, March 2016.}

3. “Staging Grief: Female Lamenters in Early Islam,” lecture at the Conference on Gender and Status Competition in Premodern Societies, Umea Group for Premodern Studies at Umea University, Sweeden, November 2015. [Tele Conference].

4. Member of the Middle East Studies Association of America.

5. Member of the School of Abbasid Studies.

6. Member of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies.

7. Member of the American Oriental Society.

8. Member of the Middle East Medievalists.

9. Member of the editorial board of al-Usur al-Wusta, (2015-).

10. Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Abbasid Studies (JAS), (2013-).

11. Member of the editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, September, (2004-).

12. Member of the Advisory Board of the journal al-Qantara, (2010-).

13. Member of the International Advisory Board of the Library of Arabic Literature (NYU Press and NYU Abu Dhabi), 2010-2015.

14. Member of the Advisory Board of Estudios Arabes e Islamicos Monografias, published by the Department of Arabic Studies of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, (2005-).

15. Member of the International Advisory Council of the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, (2006-).

Hermann Genz

1. 
   Chair of the Department of History and Archaeology (since January 2016).
   
2. 
   Advising of undergraduate archaeology majors.
   
3. 
   Member of the Departmental Committee for Program Learning Outcomes.
   
4. 
   Editorial board for the journal “Ägypten und Levante/Egypt and the Levant (Vienna)” (2011-present).
   
5. 
   Editorial board for “Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies (Pennsylvania State University)” (2012-2015).
   
6. 
   External referee for Ph. D.-Thesis of Cecily Grace (University of Melbourne) completed in September 2015.
   
7. 
   “The Resurfacing of Early and Middle Bronze Age Pottery Traditions in the Iron Age of Central Anatolia: a Case Study from Boğazköy”, presentation at the conference “Remembering the Bronze Age in the Iron Age: Memory, Material Culture, and the Past as Resource in the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean”, Tübingen 2015.
   
8. 
   “Iron Age Burial Customs in Central Anatolia: The View from Boğazköy”, presentation at the conference “The Phrygian Lands over Time (from Prehistory to the Middle of the 1^st Millennium AD)”, Eskişehir 2015.
   
9. 
   “The Middle Bronze Age at Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon): an Interim Statement” (together with M. Peršin, K. Kopetzky and A. Ahrens), presentation at the 10. International Conference of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Vienna 2016.
   
10. 
    “Preliminary Observations on the Pre-Early Bronze Age III Pottery Sequence from Tell Fadous-Kfarabida on the Lebanese Coast”, presentation at the 10. International Conference of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Vienna 2016.
    
11. 
    Peer reviews of submissions to the journals “Journal of Archaeological Science” and “Levant”.
    
12. 
    Peer review of book manuscript “Büyükkaya II. Bauwerke und Befunde” by J. Seeher et al. for the German Archaeological Institute.
    

John Meloy
1. Reviewed book manuscript (Brill), promotion and tenure file (University of Redlands, California), and grant proposal (Research Foundation - Flanders [FWO]).

2. Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

3. Academic advisor, History undergraduates.

4. Internal Review Committee, University Libraries.

5. Internal Review Committee, Civilization Studies Program.
Paul Newson

1. 
   Lecture presented, “Niha and Hosn Niha: A Mixture of Roman and Local Cultural Identities.” AUB Museum, Beirut. January 20, 2016.
   
2. 
   Paper presented, “The Creation of Ritual ‘Place’ in the Roman Near East.” Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Rome. March 16, 2016.
   
3. 
   Associate Editor, of journal Levant.
   
4. 
   Associate Editor, of journal Berytus.
   
5. 
   Member of the University Publications Committee.
   
6. 
   General Education Board Committee Member.
   
7. 
   Member of the University Higher Order Thinking, Faculty Learning Community.
   
8. 
   Academic Advisor, Freshman Students.
   
9. 
   Teaching in the Civilization Sequence Program.
   
10. 
    Supervising one MA thesis in Archaeology.
    

Helen Sader
1. 10^th International Conference on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), Vienna, April 25-29, 2016.

2. University Research Board, Member (2009-).

3. Committee for the FAS 150 Celebrations Chair (2014-2016).

4. Committee member of the PhD thesis of Laura Trellisó Carreño defended on February 3, 2016 at the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (.

Helga Seeden

1. 
   Member of the AUB Publication Committee.
   
2. 
   Peer reviewer for Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology (since 2012).
   
3. 
   Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Public Archaeology (peer reviewed international journal published by Maney, UK).
   
4. 
   Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the refereed international journal Archaeologies, published by Springer for the World Archaeological Congress (print and e-version).
   

Samir Seikaly

1. 
   Continued to serve, without course reduction, as MA and PhD graduate student advisor as well as Library liaison officer.
   
2. 
   Served as Chair or member of two promotion committees to the rank of full professor in the faculty of Arts and Sciences.
   
3. 
   For the second successive year, served as member of the jury for the selection of the 2016 CIEPO Prize attributed to the best publication of a recent PhD graduate.
   

Alexis Wick
1. 1516: The Year that Changed the Middle East and the World,” Conference co-organizer, American University of Beirut, December 2016.

2. “Constantine Zurayk Symposium,” November 2016, Member of organizing committee.

3. “Memories of Palestine,” Roundtable book launch of Rosemary Sayigh’s Yusif Sayigh: Arab Economist, Palestinian Patriot, May 30^th, 2016, Presenter.

4. “Maritime Worlds of Islam,” Roundtable co-convener, American University of Beirut, April 2016.

5. “The Place in the Middle: A Geohistory of the Red Sea,” Presentation at the Ifriqiyya Colloquim, Columbia University, New York, September 24^th, 2015.

6. “Orientalism and History,” Lecture in the course ‘Introduction the Middle Eastern Studies’ led by Professor Nadya Sbaiti, American University of Beirut, February, 2016.

7. “The Ottomans,” Lecture in the course “Introduction to Islamic Studies,” led by Professor Nader el-Bizri, CAMES, November, 2015.

8. Member of departmental committee for Program Learning Outcomes.

9. Member of CAMES Steering Committee.

10. Chair of the FAS Library Committee.

11. Teaching in the Civilization Sequence Program.

12. Supervising MA thesis in History (Alia Kalla).

13. Freshman advising.

14. Task Force on Women Faculty.

F. PUBLICATIONS
Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
1. Editor and contributor, Kamal Salibi: al-Insan wa al-Mu’arrikh (Doha: Doha Institute for Policy Studies, 2016).

2. Coeditor and co translator with Mario Kozah et al., Dadisho’ Qatraya’s Compendious Commentary on the Egyptian Fathers (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2016).

3. Bayn al-Markaz wa al-Atraf: Hauran fi al-Watha’iq al-Uthmaniyya (Between Center and Periphery: Hauran in the Ottoman Documents) (London: Druze Heritage Foundation, 2015.

4. Coeditor with Tarek Abu Hussein of al-Matali’ al-Badriyya fi al-Manazil al-Rumiyya, Istanbul Chamber of Commerce, Istanbul, 2015, (in Arabic).

5. Coeditor with Tarek Abu Hussein, Bedreddin El Ghazzi’nin Seyahetnamesi (Turkish translation of the book listed above), Istanbul Chamber of Commerce, 2015.

6. Coeditor with Mario Kozah et.al, An Anthology of Syriac Writers from Qatar, (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015).

7. “Kamal Salibi: The Man and the Historian, 1929-2011.” One Hundred and Fifty, ed. Nadia El-Cheikh, et al., pp. 287-93. Beirut: AUB Press, 2016.

Paul du Quenoy
1. “‘In the Most Uncompromising Russian Style:’ The Russian Repertoire at the Metropolitan Opera, 1910-1947,” Revolutionary Russia, 28: 1, 2015.
Nadia El-Cheikh
1. Co-authored with Samar Mikati, “Women at AUB: The Beginnings, 1905-1947 (A Photo Essay),” One Hundred and Fifty, ed. Nadia Maria El Cheikh, et al., pp. 63-82. Beirut: AUB Press, 2016.
Hermann Genz

1. 
   “Beware of Environmental Determinism: The Transition from the Early to the Middle Bronze Age on the Lebanese Coast and the 4.2 Ka Event,” in 2200 BC: Ein Klimasturz als Ursache für den Zerfall der Alten Welt?, ed. H. Meller, R. Risch, R. Jung and H. W. Arz. 7. Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 23. bis 26. Oktober 2014 in Halle (Saale) (Halle 2015), 97-111.
   
2. 
   Book review of Die ausgehende frühe und beginnende mittlere Bronzezeit in Troia (Studia Troica Monographien 4), by S. W. E. Blum. Germania 92 (2014 [appeared 2016]): 226-229.
   

John Meloy

1. 
   Imperial Power and Maritime Trade: Mecca and Cairo in the Later Middle Ages. Chicago Studies on the Middle East (Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago). Chicago: Middle East Documentation Center. Revised paperback edition, 2015.
   
2. 
   “Arab and Middle East Studies at AUB: Between Local Concerns and Global Pressures.” One Hundred and Fifty, ed. Nadia El-Cheikh, et al., pp. 85-94. Beirut: AUB Press, 2016.
   

Paul Newson

1. 
   “The consequences of Roman imperialism: cultural change in the basalt region of Homs, Syria.” Levant 47(3): 267-92.
   
2. 
   “Greco-Roman burial practices in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, and its adjacent uplands.” Journal of East Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage 3(4): 349-72.
   
3. 
   “The Carchemish region between the Hellenistic and Early Islamic periods.” In Carchemish in Context: the Land of Carchemish Project 2006-2010, ed. T.J. Wilkinson et al. BANEA Monograph 4. Oxford: Oxbow, 184-202.
   

Helen Sader

1. 
   “Phönizische Städte”. In A.-M. Wittke ed. Frühgeschichte der Mittelmeerkulturen. Historisch-archäologisches Handbuch. Der neue Pauly Supplemente 10. Stuttgart-Weimar: J.B. Metzler. 668-693 (2015).
   
2. 
   “Intertwined History: Lebanon’s Role in the Transmission of Egyptian Culture to Inland Syria in the Middle Bronze Age”. In P. Pfälzner and M. al-Maqdisi (Eds.), Qatna and the Networks of Bronze Age Globalism. Proceedings of an International Conference in Stuttgart and Tübingen in October 2009. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 117-126 (2015).
   
3. 
   “Les territoires des villes phéniciennes entre continuité et changement”, Topoi Supplément 13, 107-121 (2015).
   
4. 
   Höflmeyer, F., J. Kamlah, H. Sader et al., New Evidence for Middle Bronze Age Chronology and Synchronisms in the Levant: Radiocarbon Dates from Tell el-Burak, Tell el-Dab’a and Tel Ifshar Compared. BASOR 375, 53-76 (2016).
   

Helga Seeden

1. 
   “Art and Artists at AUB: Art makes more sense than anything else.” One Hundred and Fifty, edited by Nadia El-Cheikh, et al., pp. 317-26. Beirut: AUB Press, 2016.
   

Samir Seikaly

1. 
   “Constantine Zurayk: Beginnings, 1931-1939.” One Hundred and Fifty, edited by Nadia El-Cheikh, et al., pp. 295-301. Beirut: AUB Press, 2016.
   

Alexis Wick

1. 
   The Red Sea: In Search of Lost Space (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016.
   

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
The Department will continue its review of the graduate program in history.
The Department is in need of a working area for archaeologists and graduate students to process material from the excavation projects for publication. A temporary space is available in the basement of Fisk Hall, but space is not sufficient for the large number of projects currently conducted, and the space is not suitable for sophisticated equipment such as the $14,000 microscope recently acquired by the Department.
One of the main problems is the low number of graduate students in both history and archaeology. The graduate programs need to be advertized more aggressively. The idea of developing exchange programs with various British and American universities is currently being explored.

Hermann Genz

Chairperson

INSTITUTE OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS

Successor to the Institute of Money and Banking (IMB), the Institute of Financial Economics (IFE) was established effective October 2001 as an independent research institute within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to be engaged in research work, conferences, seminars and workshops with a focus on financial, monetary and international economics as well as broad developmental issues of the Middle East region³. Fellows of the Institute include not only members of the Economics Department but also visiting scholars who spend time during the course of the year conducting research. As the report indicates, the Institute and Institute Fellows have been actively engaged in various academic and research activities. A major research project initiated in September 2006 with the support of a substantial International Development Research Center (IDRC) research grant and housed at the IFE was completed in 2010. A new research project, also supported by IDRC was initiated in September 2010 (see section D1 below). Other ongoing research projects undertaken by fellows of the Institute (some with its direct financial support) span the financial, monetary, exchange rate, trade, development and political economy fields, while several of their publications during this academic year appeared in top ranking internationally refereed journals or edited (refereed) books (see section F below).

A. RESEARCH PROGRAM
A major objective of the Institute is to promote research and other academic activities in the above fields. Gaining increasing recognition (the Institute is a founding member of the Forum for Euro-Med. Economic Institutes-FEMISE headquartered in Marseilles, France), it aims to become a major research center in particular as concerns Arab and other developing economies. Emphasis is placed on policy-oriented empirical work that could be beneficial to governments and organizations concerned with the design of economic financial and developmental policies. Towards this objective it also holds seminars, workshops and lectures that, among other things, bring together academicians and experts, and policy makers to analyze issues of relevance at the policy level.
The Institute encourages collaborative work with appropriate national and international organizations and research centers. It also accommodates visiting scholars and experts for various intervals of time to conduct research at the institute. In 2003, the Institute initiated a guest lecture and working paper series⁴. The lectures are by invited scholars and experts and except for minor editorial changes, are circulated as presented. The working papers incorporate preliminary findings of ongoing research work being undertaken at the Institute and elsewhere (see below section E).

B. PERSONNEL

1. 
   Director
   

Neaime, Simon

Professor

Ph.D.

2. 
   Faculty Fellows
   

Gaysset, Isabelle Post-doctoral Fellow Ph.D.

Makdisi, Samir	Prof. Emeritus/ Senior Fellow	Ph.D.
Neaime, Simon	Professor/Fellow	Ph.D.

3. 
   Research Assistants
   

Fall Semester

Badra, Nasser

Dib, Antoine

Shalak, Jana

Wehbe, Layal

Spring Semester

Badra, Nasser

Dib, Antoine

Nassar, Rawan

Shalak, Jana

Wehbe, Layal

4. 
   Graduate Assistants
   

Fall Semester

Dib, Antoine

Shalak, Jana

Spring Semester

Dib, Antoine

Shalak, Jana

5. 
   Non Academic Staff
   

Shaar, Rima

Secretary

6. 
   Recommended Advisory Committee
   

   El-Bizri, Nader Makdisi, Samir	Professor Prof. Emeritus
   Michelis, Leonidas Nassif, Nabil	Professor Professor

7. 
   International Advisory Committee
   

Elbadawi, Ibrahim, A., Director, Dubai Economic Council.

Esfahani, Hadi, S., Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Safadi, Raed, Deputy Director, Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Paris.

C. CONDITIONS GOVERNING APPOINTMENT OF FELLOWS, SENIOR FELLOWS AND ASSOCIATES AT THE INSTITUTE⁵
Normally, the research interest of candidates for appointment of Fellows, Senior Fellows and Associates should pertain to the primary areas of concern to the Institute financial, international and monetary economics as well as broad developmental issues of the Middle East. They should demonstrate evidence of active research e.g. internationally refereed publications and ongoing research projects and they are expected to be actively involved in and contribute to Institute activities: among others, research, workshops seminars, lectures and the Institute’s working paper series. Recommendation for appointment of Senior Fellows is made on the basis of their recognized and long established research record.
Period of association: three years for AUB Economics faculty, renewable.

Fellows or Associates from outside AUB who wish to spend some time at the Institute will be asked to acknowledge their hosting by the Institute in their published research and/or asked to contribute to its working paper series or other outlets of publication and/or give one or more seminars/lectures during their stay. Their involvement in Institute activities will depend in part, on the length of their stay which can vary from one week to a whole academic year.

Fellows and Associates will benefit from office space (if available), computer and internet facilities, secretarial assistance, and graduate research assistants, in addition to the Institute’s contacts with outside research organizations.
On the recommendation of the Director and the approval of the Dean and the extend financial resources are available, Economics faculty fellows may also benefit from limited research grants, based on a research proposal during the summer period (July and August) on condition they spend at least one month on campus. Other Economics faculty may also benefit from financial support to the extent resources are available. The conditions for support will be set on a case by case basis. It is expected that financial support by the Institute will be duly acknowledged in publications and presentations that receive this support.
Appointments are made by the Dean on the recommendation of the Director of the Institute.