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Patrick McGreevy,
Director (pm07@aub.edu.lb)
Patrick McGreevy joined AUB as the Director of
CASAR in 2004. Prior to that, he was Chair of the
Department of Anthropology, Geography and Earth
Science at Clarion University in Pennsylvania. He
served as a Fulbright Chair of American Studies in
Hungary in 1999-2000. His research focuses on the
meanings Americans find in landscape and
comparative studies of Canadian and American
identities.
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Dr. McGreevy’s publications include
Imagining Niagara: The Meaning and Making of
Niagara Falls (1994). Prof. McGreevy received
his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of
Minnesota in 1984.
phone: 961 1 350000
extension 4197
Fax: 961 1 744461
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International Advisory Board:
- Dr. Djelal Kadir
Pennsylvania State University
- Dr. Amy Kaplan
The University of Pennsylvania
- Dr. Stanley Katz
Princeton University
- Mr. Rami Khoury
American University of Beirut
- Dr. Scott Lucas
University of Birmingham
- Dr. Melani McAlister
George Washington University
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Executive
Committee:
- Dr. Joshua Andresen
Philosophy Department
(ja30@aub.edu.lb)
- Dr. Sirene Harb English
Department (sh03@aub.edu.lb)
- Dr. Julia Kent
English Department (jk37@aub.edu.lb)
- Dr. Karim Makdisi
PSPA Department (km18@aub.edu.lb)
- Dr. Kirsten Scheid SBS Department
(ks28@aub.edu.lb)
- Dr. Sylvia Shorto
Architecture and
Design Department
(ss56@aub.edu.lb)
- Dr. John Pedro Shwartz
English Department
(js34@aub.edu.lb)
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Faculty members:
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Robert Ross, Visiting Professor, Fall &
Spring 2007-2008
Robert Ross
is currently a visiting professor at the
Center for American Studies & Research at
the American University of Beirut. He
earned his Ph.D. from the
Department of Geography at
Syracuse University. He has
a master’s degree in
geography from University
College London and a
bachelor’s degree in
anthropology and sociology
from West Chester University
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Dr. Ross’s
research has concentrated on two general
phenomena ofcontemporary and historical
North American cities: the industrial
production of culture and the production of
public space. His most recent research
focused on the relations of production
within the nineteenth century professional
baseball industry. Dr. Ross is
currently working on converting his
dissertation on this topic into book.
He is also writing articles on the
contradictions of industrial cultural
production, labor geographies of scale,
critical sports geography, and the illusion
of so-called non-capitalist economic forms.
He previously published work in
Urban Geography,
The Encyclopedia of
Geography, and The
Encyclopedia of North
American Sports. |
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Former Visiting Professors:
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Marcy Newman, Visiting Professor,
Fall & Spring
2006-2007
Marcy Newman is currently
assistant
professor of English at Boise State
University and was a visiting professor at the Center for American Studies
and Research during Fall and Spring
2006-2007 at the American University of
Beirut. She is the author of
Beyond
Slash, Burn, and Poison: Transforming Breast
Cancer Stories into Action (Rutgers
UP 2004)and editor of
The Sleeper
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Renaissance
Stories by Women
(Rutgers UP 1992) and Jessie Redmon Fauset's
The
Chinaberry Tree and Selected Writings
(Northeastern UP 1996). Currently she is
working on a manuscript entitled
Disrupting
Zionism: Re-educating America About
Palestine, which explores Palestinian
and Jordanian models for disrupting in
Zionist education in the U.S. |
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Susanne Wiedemann, Visiting Professor,
Spring 2006
Susanne Wiedemann graduated
from the Free University of Berlin with an
M.A. in North American Studies in 1997. She
received an M.A. in Museum Studies from
Brown University in May 1999, and her Ph.D.
in American Civilization in 2006. |
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She taught undergraduate
courses in American Studies at Brown
University and at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. Her article "Bobby Soxers, Chewing Gum, and Spencer Tracy in
Exile: German Jewish Refugees Encounter
American Culture in Shanghai" was published
in Alexander Stephan, ed., Exile and
Otherness: New Approaches to the Experience
of the Nazi Refugees (New York: Peter Lang,
2005). Dr. Wiedemann's research interests
include transnationalism, diaspora cultures
and literatures, and comparative genocide
studies. |
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Khadija Fritsch-El Alaoui, Visiting
Professor, Spring 2006
Dr. Khadija Fritsche El-Alaoui
received her Ph.D from Technical University
in Dresden in 2005. Her current research
focuses on the politics of representations
and how its analysis reveals the messy
intersections of power, knowledge and
culture.Dr. El-Alaoui's research interests
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struggles against the new imperialism with(out) colonies and the history of
political dissent in the US. |
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Non-Academic Staff:
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Nancy Batakji, Administrative Assistant
(nb22@aub.edu.lb)
phone: 961 1 350000
extension 4195
Fax: 961 1
744461
College Hall 453, 4th Floor |
Nancy Batakji |
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Graduate Assistants:
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Nathalie Nahas,
Graduate Assistant (nsn06@aub.edu.lb)
phone: 961 1
350000 extension 4196
College Hall 443, 4th Floor
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Dana Salbak,
Graduate Assistant (dms16@aub.edu.lb)
phone: 961 1
350000 extension 4196
College Hall 443, 4th Floor
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