AASA is thrilled to announce that member Charlotte Karem Albrecht will begin a tenure-track position in Arab and Muslim American Studies in the departments of American Culture and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. While at Michigan, Albrecht will join AASA board member Evelyn Alsultany in supporting the Arab and Muslim American…
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By Akram Khater and Rachel Norman As recently as 2011, Arab American scholar Steven Salaita stated that Arab American Studies is not yet a field. Rather, Salaita suggests, Arab American Studies should be considered an “emerging subject.”[1] As we write this inaugural blog post, we can’t help but wonder if this statement is still…
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CFP: Who’s Arab? Where’s America?: Interrogating “Arab American” Middle East Studies Association, November 21-24, 2015, Denver The boundaries of Arab American studies have always been fluid. As a relatively young field of inquiry, researchers and scholars from a variety of backgrounds and approaches have been welcomed into the discipline. Sometimes the scholarship has included work…
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The American Studies Program @ University of California at Davis is conducting a national search for an Assistant Professor in American Studies. The University of California, Davis is interested in candidates who are committed to the highest standards of scholarship and professional activities, and to the development of a campus climate that supports equality and…
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