Dr. Carl Davila
Department of History
SUNY College at Brockport
(585) 395-5699; Fax (585) 395-2620
Office: 127 Albert W. Brown Building
E-Mail: cdavila@brockport.edu
- Ph.D., Yale University, 2006 (Arabic Studies)
- B.A., SUNY College at Brockport, 1998 (History)
- Presidential Fellow, SUNY College at Brockport, 2006-2008
- Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Morocco, "The Moroccan Andalusian Music Tradition: Between the Spoken and the Written," 2005-2006.
- Fulbright Fellowship for Research in Morocco, translation and textual analysis of the Andalusian Music, 2004-2005.
- Graduate Research Grant, American Institute for Maghreb Studies, "al-Musiqa al-Andalusiyya fi al-Magrib al-Aqsa: The Survival and Preservation of a Literary Tradition." 2003-2004.
- Presidential Citation for Outstanding Graduating Student, SUNY College at Brockport, 1998.
- The Ancient World
- Medieval Islamic Civilization
- Anthropology of Islam
- Beyond the Veil: Gender in the Islamic World
- Graduate Topics in World History:
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From Battle-days to Days of Faith": Topics in Arab-Islamic History
- “Andalusian Strophic Poetry Between the Spoken and the Written: The Case of the Moroccan Andalusian Music Tradition" in Muwashshah: Proceedings of the Conference on Arabic and Hebrew Strophic Poetry and its Romance Parallels, School of Oriental and African Studies [SOAS], London, 8-10 October 2004. Ed. Ed Emery. London: RN Books. 2006
- "Ila l-muhibbati l-azima...": The Performance of Authority in Nineteenth-Century Alawi Official Correspondence," JAGMES. (in press)
- "Sunset in the Gardens of al-Andalus" (poetry from the Moroccan Andalusian Music in translation) Palimpsest, April 2005.
- "Sunset in the Gardens of al-Andalus," Nebulua 2.1 Online Journal, March 2005 (http://www.nobleworld.biz).
| Recent Conference Papers and Other Presentations |
- “Text and Performed Text: Linguistic Registers in the Moroccan Âla,” presented at the Middle East Studies Association annual conference in Boston, MA, November 2006.
- “Fixing a Misbegotten Biography: Ziryâb in the Mediterranean World,” presented at the International Medieval Conference, University of Leeds, UK, July 2006.
- "Kun shafi`i: Orality and Literacy in the Moroccan Ala," presented at the Middle Eastern Studies Association annual conference in Washington, D.C., November 2005.
- "A Tradition of Teaching a Tradition: Oral and Literate Dimensions of the Moroccan Ala," presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology annual conference in Atlanta, GA, November 2005.
- "Andalusian Strophic Poetry Between the Spoken and the Written: The Case of the Moroccan Andalusian Music," presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the
Far West Popular Culture Association, October 2004.
- '"Ila l-Muhibbati l-azima...": The Performance of Authority in Nineteenth-Century Alawi Official Correspondence,' presented at the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Annual Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2001.
- A paper based on a recently published Arabic manuscript, concerning references to female slave singers in 9th-century Cordova.
- A contribution to a forthcoming anthology entitled Echoes of al-Andalus, featuring new scholarship on the Andalusian music traditions of the Mediterranean.
