We are pleased to announce that the 2015 membership forms are now available on our website. AASA Membership is open to any person or institution with a professional or scholarly interest in Arab American studies. We encourage interdisciplinary and transnational approaches to scholarship as well as more traditional areas of academic enquiry. Membership dues submitted…
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CALL FOR PAPERS for the Area, Arab Culture in the U.S., at the 36th Annual Conference of the Southwest Popular/ American Culture Association Conference Theme Many Faces, Many Voices: Intersecting Borders in Popular and American Culture February 11-14, 2015 Albuquerque, New Mexico (http://www.southwestpca.org) Hyatt Regency Hotel (http://goo.gl/gTvvVP) Extended Deadline for Proposal Submission: November 15, 2014…
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Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) PARC provides a number of annual opportunities for doctoral and post-doctoral candidates to engage more deeply in research on Palestinian issues. While our grant from NEH/FPIRI funds research specifically in the Humanities, our other research fellowships have no restrictions on the field of study. Both are open to US citizens, and the…
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Call for Proposals DIWAN6: A Forum for the Arts Overview The sixth biennial convening of DIWAN: A Forum for the Arts will be held at the Arab American National Museum (AANM), on May 7-9, 2015, in Dearborn, Michigan. The conference will coincide with the launch of the Museum’s 10th anniversary programming year, as well as…
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Arab American Aesthetics (edited collection) This edited volume takes as its main question, how might we define Arab American Aesthetics? The impetus that undergirds this query is two-fold. First, the field of Arab American Studies contests the idea that Arab Americans and their various art(s) define themselves and their creations based on a set of…
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Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce the establishment of the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at the North Carolina State University. This is the only center–outside Lebanon–dedicated to research about the Lebanese Diaspora in the US and throughout the world, and to the dissemination of this knowledge to the scholarly community and…
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Assistant Professor in Film Studies The Department of English at Syracuse University is searching for an assistant professor with a research specialization in U.S. film history. PhD in English, film studies or related field required. Job responsibilities: active research agenda; teaching undergraduate courses for the film and screen studies track in the English and Textual…
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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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August 17, 2014 Office of the Chancellor Swanlund Administration Building 601 E. John Street Champaign, IL 61820 Dear Chancellor Wise, As members of the Arab American Studies Association (AASA), we write to express our deep concern about the termination of Professor Steven Salaita’s appointment at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). We write…
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ARAB/MUSLIM AMERICAN AND WOMEN’S STUDIES The University of Michigan’s Departments of American Culture and Women’s Studies seek qualified applications for an open rank tenure-track or tenured appointment in Arab and Muslim American studies. Candidates with scholarly expertise and teaching interests using feminist approaches to Arab and Muslim American studies (such as frameworks of race, gender,…
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