Biographical Information
Biographical Sketch
I have been teaching at The Evergreen State College since 1999; my daughter Nadia was born in 2001.
I was born in Seattle, then lived in San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Germany, Jerusalem and Washington DC before returning to Everett, WA where I graduated from Everett High School in 1984. I attended college and obtained a B.A. in Political Science and Middle East Studies at The University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. After graduating from college I lived in Washington DC for two years, working for several Middle Eastern political magazines before moving to New York City to attend graduate school at Columbia University, where I obtained my Ph.D. in Political Science and International Politics with a specialization in the Middle East. I then returned to Washington DC for 4 years, working on my dissertation while teaching international politics at American University and Georgetown University. I then took a one-year position at Clark University in Worcester, MA and was then offered the position at Evergreen.
Professional and Teaching Experience
The Evergreen State College, Member of the Faculty, Fall, 1999 to present.
Programs taught: The Quickening of the Nations: Indigenous Peoples Yesterday and Today, Imagining the Middle East and South Asia, Human Rights: Culture and Context, Alternatives to Capitalist Globalization, Seeking Justice: Restitution, Reconcilation
Clark University, Visiting Assistant Professor of Government and International Relations, Fall 1998-Spring 1999. Courses taught: FALL: Intro. to IR, Arab-Israeli Conflict, SPRING: Culture and Conflict in Global Politics, Rise and Fall of the Nation-State System, Modern Political Theory
Georgetown University, Adjunct Professor, Senior Seminar in the Program in Justice and Peace, Spring, 1998.
American University, Adjunct Professor, Peace & Conflict Resolution Semester, Washington Semester Program, Fall, 1997. Co-organized and co-lead 26 students on a three-week study/tour of the Middle East to examine the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
American University, Lecturer, School of International Service, Fall and Spring, 1994-1995.
Courses taught: Theories of International Politics, Introduction to World Politics, and Beyond Sovereignty inWorld Politics.
Columbia University, Coordinator, Graduate International Relations Seminar, 1993-1994.
Council for International Exchange of Scholars, (CIES, Fulbright Scholars Program), Education Materials Assistant Coordinator, 1989-1990.
Middle East Report (Middle East Research and Information Project, MERIP), Editorial Assistant, Occasional Staff Writer, 1988-89.
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, (American Educational Trust), Assistant to Office Manager and Circulation Department, 1988.
Education
Ph.D. Columbia University, New York, NY. Political Science, 2003. Major
field: International Relations, minor field: Political Theory, area specialization: Middle East.
- Dissertation: Title: "Rival Sovereignties in the Middle East State-System." Committee: Chair: Dr. Jack Snyder, Dr. Hendrik Spruyt, Arizona State University; Dr. F. Gregory Gause III, The University of Vermont.
B.A. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. Government and Foreign Affairs, 1988.
Concentration: Foreign Affairs, Middle East politics and Political Philosophy.
Book Reviews
Review of Beyond Peace: The Search for Security in the Middle East by Robert Bowker, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin (1998).
Review of After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements, ed., Gyan Prakash, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, vol. 25, no. 2, Summer.
Review of Riding the Tiger: The Middle East Challenge After the Cold War, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, vol. 28, No. 2, December 1994.
Foreign Languages
Arabic:
Bir-Zeit University, Intensive summer semester, written and colloquial.
Columbia University, 4 Semesters written standard.
American University in Cairo, Intensive summer semester, written and colloquial.
Middle East Institute, Washington D.C., 1 semester written and 1 semester spoken.
University of Virginia, 6 Semesters written standard.
French:
The American University, 1 Semester reading class.
Columbia University, 1 Semester intensive review.
Everett High School, 3 years
