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