Christopher won a coveted Fulbright-Hayes grant to cover his fieldwork this year in Mauritania. Advised by Sabra Webber, he is looking at how international development projects interact with local narratives and self-understanding.
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Professor Georges Tamer, M. S. Sofia Chair in Arabic Studies, has been awarded the 24-month prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship in the category “Senior Researcher” in the German Gerda Henkel Foundation’s M4HUMAN (Mobility for experienced researchers in historical humanities and...
Graham won the 2011 Jonathan T.Y. Yeh Award for student scholarship in Asian and Asian American Folklore for his paper entitled "In the Margins: Folk Belief, Huizus, and the 'Pork Thing' in China." The paper was nominated by Sabra Webber and seconded by Dorrie...
Naomi Brenner, an Assistant Professor in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, received a Visiting Fellowship in Jewish Studies from the Yad Hanadiv/...
Ben Gatling was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship. Ben, a Ph.D. candidate in Persian, is only one of 142 students to receive the fellowship. Ben visited Tajikistan to continue his research.
Elliot Klosterman was awarded the NSEP Boren Undergraduate Study Abroad Award for 2010-2011. The...
Sanya Dosani was awarded a Wolfe Study Abroad Scholarship. Sanya is a sophomore majoring in Arabic, who will be participating...