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- Arab History, Classical Islam, Arabic Language and Culture
- 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
- Research Methods in History
- Medieval Islamic Civilization
- Ethnographic Experience
- Anthropology of Islam
- Gender in the Islamic World
- Jihad
- Sufism
- Qur'an
- Graduate Topics in World History:
" From Battle-days to Days of Faith": Topics in Arab-Islamic History - Al-Andalus: History and Legacy
- Arabic Literature in History
- Middle East/North Africa Regional Seminar
- Orientalism
- "Fixing a Misbegotten Biography: Ziryab in the Mediterranean World." Al-Masâq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean, 12 (ii) 2009.
- Review: Varieties of Muslim Experience: Encounters with Arab Political and Cultural Life, by Lawrence Rosen. Anthropological Quarterly, 82 (1) 2009.
- "Kun shafî'î: The Value of Orality and Literacy in the Moroccan Âla" in Echoes of al-Andalus, Carl Davila and Jonathan Shannon, eds. (forthcoming)
- “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).
- "Is 'Islamic Feminism' Necessary? A Case in Point" presented at the Seneca Falls Dialogues: "Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Women's Leadership/Activism: Past, Present, and Future", Seneca Falls, NY, October, 2008.
- Conference organizer: Reconsidering 'the Orient' and 'the Occident' in the 21st Century: Observing the 30th Anniversary of Edward Said's Orientalism, the College at Brockport, 12 April, 2008. www.brockport.edu/orientalism
- "The Other Andalusian Music: Andalusi Strophic Poetry in the Moroccan Samâ' wa-Madîh" presented at the Third International Conference on Andalusian Strophic Poetry at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, October, 2007.
- "'Islamofascism?' Engineered Discourses on Islam" Presidential Fellows Lecture given at the College at Brockport, November, 2006.
- "Teaching Said: Culture Discourse Meets Culture Critique" presented at the Counterpoints Conference on the Legacy of Edward Said, University of Ottawa, October, 2008.“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 Muwashshah: Andalusian Strophic Poetry and Its Hebrew and Persian Cognates conference, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, October, 2004.
- A paper based on a recently published Arabic manuscript, concerning references to female slave singers in 9th-century Cordova.
- Co-editing with Jonathan Shannon a forthcoming anthology entitled Echoes of al-Andalus, featuring new scholarship on the Andalusian music traditions of the Mediterranean.
