International Studies Faculty - Middle East
Tugrul Keskin Ph.D.Middle East Studies Area Coordinator and Assistant Professor of International and Middle East Studies Courses: | Dr. Tugrul Keskin is Assistant Professor of International and Middle Eastern Studies and Center For Turkish Studies at Portland State University. His research and teaching interests include Sociology of Islam and the Middle East, Social and Political Theories, Marxism, Post-Colonial Theory, Islamic Movements, Sociology of Africa (Imperialism and Re-colonization in Africa after 1950s), Modern Kurdish, Uyghur and Turkish Nationalism. Previously, Dr. Keskin taught as an instructor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Virginia Tech University and has also previously taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at James Madison and Radford Universities. He received his PhD from Virginia Tech in Sociology, with certificate degrees in Africana Studies, Social and Political Thought, and International Research and Development. The topic of his Ph.D. dissertation is A Comparative Analysis of Islamist Movements: Jama’at-e-Islami in Pakistan and the Fethullah Gulen Movement in Turkey – Reactions to Capitalism, Modernity and Secularism. Email: tugrulkeskin@pdx.edu Homepage: http://tugrulkeskin.blogspot.com |
Associated Middle East Faculty:
- Associated faculty members offer undergraduate advising in region of focus and/or area of expertise.
Dr. Masoud Kheirabadi is an Iranian-American, and has lived in the U.S. since 1976. Dr. Kheirabadi lived three years in Texas where he received his M.S. in Agricultural Mechanization from Texas A & I University (later joined with Texas A & M.) In 1979, he moved to Eugene and studied at the University of Oregon where he received his M.A. and later Ph.D. in geography with a minor in political science. Dr. Kheirabadi has taught for over twenty years for variety of institutions of higher education including University of Oregon, Lewis & Clark College, Marylhurst University, and Portland State University. His research interest deals with issues and problems of development in less developed countries. Dr. Kheirabadi interested in issues concerning resource management, sustainable development, urbanization, population/ethnic studies, and geopolitics. His regional focus, however, is the Middle East and his approach to education is interdisciplinary and due to his diverse academic background and research. Books:
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Lindsay J. BensteadAssistant Professor of Political Science Courses: • Middle East Politics | Dr. Lindsay Benstead is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Portland State University where she teaches courses on North African politics, Middle East politics, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, authoritarianism and democratization, and research methods. She has held graduate and postdoctoral fellowships at the Council on Middle East Studies at Yale University and the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and received grants and awards from several institutions, including the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) of Canada. Her research interests include parliamentary and electoral politics, clientelism and corruption, public opinion, and survey research methods in the Middle East and North Africa, with particular emphasis on Morocco and Algeria. Prof. Benstead received her Ph.D. in Public Policy and Political Science in 2008 from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her dissertation investigated the relationships between parliamentary institutions, the constituency activities of Members, and the political attitudes of constituents in Morocco and Algeria. During eighteen months of field research in Morocco and Algeria, Prof. Benstead conducted a survey of 200 Members of Parliament and 1600 constituents in 20 electoral districts. Current Research Interests: Parliamentary and electoral politics, clientelism and corruption, public opinion, and survey research methods in the Middle East and North Africa, with particular emphasis on Morocco and Algeria. Email: lindsay.benstead@pdx.edu Homepage: http://www.pdx.edu/hatfieldschool/lindsay-benstead |
Birol A. YesiladaProfessor and Contemporary Turkish Studies Endowed Chair Political Science - Urban & Public Affairs Courses: • Political Science 556/PAP 656: Advanced Political Economy | Dr. Birol Yesilada (Ph.D. 1984, University of Michigan) is Professor of Political Science and International Studies, holds an endowed chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, and is Director of the Center for Turkish Studies. He teaches courses on the European Union, international political economy, decision-making, and Turkish politics. Previously, he was Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Professor Yesilada is the principal investigator for the World Values Survey project in Cyprus and has served as Co-editor-in-Chief of International Studies Perspectives and Associate Editor of The Middle East Studies Bulletin. His books include: Islamization of Turkey Under AKP Rule (co-edited with Barry Rubin), Comparative Political Parties and Party Elites: Essays in Honor of Samuel J. Eldersveld, and The Emerging European Union (with David M. Wood). He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on European integration, international political economy, political development in Turkey, rise of political Islam, the Cyprus problem, and foreign policymaking. His most recent research projects include World Values Survey, power transition theory, rise of Islamism in Turkey, and the EU-Turkey relations. Professor Yesilada has been a consultant to various policy think tanks and agencies of the U.S. Government. Email: yesilada@pdx.edu Homepage: http://web.pdx.edu/~yesilada/ |
Dr. Yasmeen S. Hanoosh received her Ph.D. in Arabic Language and Literature from The University of Michigan (2008). She specializes in the literatures and history of ethno-religious minorities in the Middle East, and also in Arabic literary translation. Her English translations of Arabic short stories have appeared in various literary journals and publications, including Banipal and The Iowa Review. Dr. Hanoosh’s translation of the Iraqi novel Scattered Crumbs (al-Ramli)won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Prize in 2002, and has been since excerpted in a number of publications and anthologized in Literature from the Axis of Evil: Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea and Other Enemy Nations (2006).Dr. Hanoosh’s teaching interests include modern Arabic fiction, the politics of minority in the Middle East, and Applied Arabic literary translation. She is spending the academic year 2009-2010 in Berlin, Germany, as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg institute for advanced studies, where she will work on completing the manuscript of her book, The Politics of Minority: Chaldeans between Iraq and America. In addition to her scholarship, Dr. Hanoosh has been teaching the Arabic language for several years at The University of Michigan. She has also taught as a visiting instructor at al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco (2003, 2005); The American University in Beirut, Lebanon (2004); The University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA (2003); and Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA (2007-2008). Email: yhanoosh@pdx.edu Homepage: http://www.pdx.edu/fll/node/143 |
Dr. Taghrid KhuriAdjunct Professor of Womens Studies Courses:
| Dr. Taghrid Khuri is an adjunct university professor and an independent development, gender and management consultant. She has multi-disciplinary experience in development planning and management, gender and development, human resource development and institutional capacity building. As University Professor, Dr. Khuri taught and continues to teach various courses on gender issues in the Middle East, third world / socio-economic development, human rights and related gender policy development issues, among others, in Portland Oregon. She designs and prepares those courses including syllabus, course description and content, assignment of text books and reading materials. She mentors students and encourages as well as guides student international and global development engagement. Her teaching at Portland State University extends from 1998 to date. She also taught small business development at Clark College, Washington State in 2003, and courses on community development in Jordan in 1996-1997.
Email: tkhuri@pdx.edu |
Dr. Natan M. MeirAssistant Professor of Judaic Studies
• HST399 History of Zionism Spring 2010 | Dr. Natan M. Meir is the Lorry I. Lokey Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Portland State University. His research interest is modern Jewish history, focusing on the social and cultural history of East European Jewry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His first book, Kiev: Jewish Metropolis, 1861-1914 (Indiana University Press), was published in June 2010 and his articles have appeared in Jewish Quarterly Review and Slavic Review. Meir is currently working on a study of vulnerable and marginalized groups among East European Jews in the nineteenth century, and he is a consultant for the Russian Jewish Museum of Moscow, now in development stages. Prior to coming to PSU, Meir taught at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, during which he spent a sabbatical year as a Yad Hanadiv postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Meir received his Ph.D. in Jewish history from Columbia University in 2003. Email: meir@pdx.edu |
L. Rudolph Barton Ph.D.
Professor of Architecture
Teaching interests: Architecture and urban design
Research interests: Design of the urban realm, architecture
regionalism
Kimberley
Brown Ph.D.
Professor of Applied Linguistics and International Studies
Teaching interests: International Studies and Linguistics
Research interests: Cultural learning and World Englishes
Grant Farr Ph.D.
Associate Dean and Professor of Sociology
Research interests: Modern Iran, Global Societies
James
Grehan Ph.D.
Associate Professor of
History
Teaching Interests: Modern day Middle East; Ottoman and Turkish
studies
Nohad Toulan Ph.D.
Dean Emeritus, Urban and Public Affairs
Michael R Weingrad
Professor
Director of the Schnitzer Judaic Studies Program
Judaic Studies (Israel, Hebrew language and literature)
weingrad@pdx.edu
Keith Walters
Professor of Applied Linguistics (North African languages and culture)
http://www.ling.pdx.edu/
waltersk@pdx.edu
Dirgham H. Sbait
Professor of Arabic/Semitic Languages, Literatures, & Folklore.
Foreign Languages and Literatures - Liberal Arts & Sciences
sbaitd@pdx.edu
K. Pelin Basci
Associate Professor
Foreign Languages and Literatures (Turkish Language, Turkey,
Women in the Middle East)
bnpb@pdx.edu
Anousha Sedighi
Assistant Professor
Foreign Languages and Literatures (Persian language, Persian
literature, Iranian culture)
sedighi@pdx.edu
Laura Robson
Assistant Professor
History (Modern Middle East History, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria)
lrobson@pdx.edu
Jennifer Schuberth
Assistant Professor
Religious Studies (Christianity, Judaism and Islam)
jschub@pdx.edu
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