Current Fellows and Research Associates
FELLOWS 2008-2009
Jere Bacarach
U.S. Department of State ECA Fellow
Professor Emeritus of Early Islamic, Medieval, and Modern Middle East Studies
University of Washington
Research topic: Islamic Numismatics and Historical Research
Heather Badamo
U.S. Department of State ECA fellow
Doctoral Candidate, University of Michigan
Research topic: Among Byzantines and Muslims: Medieval Coptic Representations of Military Saints ca 850-1300 CE
Scott Bucking
National Endowment for the Humanities fellow
Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies, DePaul University
Research topic: Archaeology, Papyrology, and the Search for the "Schoolrooms" of Graeco-Roman Egypt
Michelle Campos
National Endowment for the Humanities fellow
Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of Florida
Research topic: Making Citizens, Contesting Citizenship in the Arab Middle East
Elizabeth Cummins
U.S. Department of State ECA fellow
Doctoral Candidate, Emory University
Research topic: Beds in New Kingdom Egyptian Art
Kelly-Anne Diamond-Reed
U.S. Department of State ECA fellow
Adjunct Professor, Villanova University
Research topic: An Investigation into the Events of the Sacred District in New Kingdom Funerary Scenes
Dina EL Gabry
Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Doctoral Candidate, Johns Hopkins University
Research topic: Chairs, Stools and Footstools in the New Kingdom: A Catalogue of the Objects Preserved in the Cairo Museum
Noor Khan
U.S. Department of State ECA fellow
Assistant Professor in History, Colgate University
Research topic: The Connections between the Indian and Egyptian Nationalist Movements, 1882-1954
Sara Nimis
U.S. Department of State ECA fellow
Doctoral Candidate, Georgetown University
Research topic: "Educational Reform in Nineteenth Century Egypt"
Adam Sabra
National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, ARCE Scholar-in-Residence
Associate Professor of Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History, University of Georgia
Research topic: A Dynasty of Ottoman-Egyptian Notables and Their World
Suzanne Stetkevych
National Endowment for the Humanities fellow
Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
Research topic: From Engagement to Disengagement: The Poetics of Abu-Al-Ma-arri
Hoda Yousef
U.S. Department of State ECA fellow
Doctoral Candidate, Georgetown University
Research topic: Literacy in the Public Sphere in Egypt at the Turn of the 20th Century
RESEARCH ASSOCIATES 2008-2009
Mariam Ayad
Research Associate
Assistant Professor of Art History, Department of Art, University of Memphis
Research topic: The Opening of the Mouth Ritual: Selection and Layout in Select Theban Tombs
Dalia Gubara
Research Associate
Doctoral Candidate, Columbia University
Research topic: Trajectories of Learning and the Everyday Life of Ideas: Al-Azhar in the Eighteenth Century.
2008 GETTY RESEARCH EXCHANGE FELLOWSHIP FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN AND MIDDLE EAST
Dr. Sherif Sayed Anwar
Assistant Professor, College of Archaeology, Cairo University
Research Topic: An Introduction to the Study of Islamic Coins
Research Country: Jordan
Dr. Said Ennahid
Assistant Professor Al-Akhawayn University
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ifrane, Morocco
Research Topic: From "Rabad" to "Habitat Social": An Archaeological-Urban History of Collective Housing in Morocco
Research Country: Egypt









