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| Dr. Sarah Shields |
Sarah Shields teaches
in the history department at UNC--Chapel Hill. She has written
extensively on the history of Iraq, including her book on the
history of Mosul, titled: Mosul Before Iraq: Like Bees Making
5-Sided Cells. Her current research is on the creation of
national identities in Syria, Turkey and Iraq between the two world
wars. In addition to her courses on Islamic Civilization, the modern
Middle East, Iraq, and the Israel/Palestine conflict, she has spoken
about the region with 80 civic groups in North Carolina since
9/11/2001. |
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| Ms. Penny Maguire |
Penelope Maguire is an
experienced educator with 33 years of public education service. She
was a classroom teacher for 28 years and served as the Middle School
Social Studies Consultant at the North Carolina Department of Public
Instruction from 2000– 2005. She currently holds an adjunct faculty
position at North Carolina State University and also works for the
North Carolina Center for International Understanding. Ms. Maguire
holds a BA with Honors in History from Rutgers University and an MA
in Education from Lehigh University. She has also pursued studies at
Old Dominion University (NEH Middle East Institute), Yale University
(China and Morocco), and Duke University (NEH Seminar on Gandhi). In
addition, she has traveled extensively including visiting and/or
studying in Egypt and Israel (Fulbright-Hays Award), Syria, Morocco,
Turkey, Japan (Fulbright Memorial Fund Award), Australia, China,
Kenya, Italy, Spain and Germany. |
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| Dr. Akram Khater |
Akram Khater teaches
in the history department at NCSU and has contributed much to his field of Middle East
History. His books include Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender and
the Making of a Lebanese Middle Class, 1861-1921, and A
History of the Middle East: A Sourcebook for the History of the
Middle East and North Africa. His current research focuses on
the history of Christianity in the Middle East. He teaches courses
on oil and the conflict in the Gulf, the Palestinian-Israeli
history, Gender in the Middle East He has been particularly active
in bringing his expertise to audiences at North Carolina colleges,
high schools, and churches. |
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| Dr. Anna Bigelow |
Anna Bigelow joined
the faculty in Philosophy & Religion at NCSU in fall 2003 as
Assistant Professor. She received her MA from Columbia University
and PhD in Religious Studies from UC Santa Barbara where her focus
was on South Asian Islam. Her dissertation "Sharing Saints, Shrines,
and Stories: Practicing Pluralism in North India," won an award for
best dissertation from the Department of Religious Studies at UCSB.
The study focused on a Muslim majority community in Indian Punjab
and the shared sacred and civic spaces in that community. Her
research agenda involves further study of contested and
cooperatively patronized multiconfessional sacred sites and the
inter-religious dynamic which complicate or ameliorate these
relations in plural communities. She has also spoken frequently on
religious extremism, religion and conflict, and the role of Islam in
the modern world. |
*This workshop is funded in part by the Department of Education
Title VIa grant awarded to NC State. |
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