FELLOWS 2011-2012

Christian Hedrick

U.S. Department of State ECA Fellow
Doctoral Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discipline: Architecture
Research topic: A Syncretic Modernism: German Orientalism, Architecture and Egyptian National Identity 1860-1914

Irfana Hashmi

U.S. Department of State ECA Fellow
Doctoral Candidate, New York University
Discipline: History, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Research topic: Riwaqs at Azhar University in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Aaron Jakes

U.S. Department of State ECA fellow
Doctoral Candidate, New York University
Discipline: History, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Research topic: The Scales of Public Utility: Agrarian Transformation and Colonial Rule in Egypt 1882-1922

Brian Kraemer

U.S. Department of State ECA fellow
Doctoral Candidate, University of Chicago
Discipline: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Research topic: Abydos as a Place of Ritual Performance and Religious Imagination in Greco-Roman Egypt

Thomas Landvatter

U.S. Department of State ECA fellow
Doctoral Candidate, University of Michigan
Discipline: Classical Art and Archaeology
Research topic: Identity, Burial Practices, and Social Change in Greco-Roman Egypt

Patrick Scharfe

U.S. Department of State ECA fellow
Doctoral Candidate, Ohio State University
Discipline: History
Research topic: Islamic Clerics in a Modernizing State: Muhammad Ali and the Egyptian Ulama 1805-1848

Alexandra Seggerman

U.S. Department of State ECA fellow
Doctoral Candidate, Yale University
Discipline: History of Art
Research topic: The Politics of Portraying a Public: Modern Egyptian Art 1880-1960

2011-2012 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES FELLOWS

Elizabeth Holt, PhD

Language and Literature, Bard College
Research topic: The Impact of the Egyptian and Lebanese Silk and Cotton Industries on the Rise of the Arabic Novel 1870-1914

Shauna Huffaker

Doctoral Candidate, University of Windsor in History
Research topic: The Notaries of Ibn Tulun and the Establishment of the Ottoman Courts of Egypt 1530-1580

2011-2012 RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

Walter Armbrust, PhD

Oriental Studies, St. Anthony's, Oxford University
Research topic: A History of New Media in Egypt 1919-1975

Jane Hathaway, PhD

History, Ohio State University
Research topic: The Influence of the Ottoman Chief Harem Eunuch in Egypt 16h-18th Centuries

Nancy Reynolds, PhD

History, Washington University
Research topic: The Politics of Culture and National Development in the Building of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt 1956-1971

2011-2012 CAORC MULTI-COUNTRY FELLOWS

Martin Nguyen, PhD

Religious Studies, Fairfield University
Research topic: Theological Resilience and Adaptability: The Rise and Development of the Ash'ari School in the 4th-5th Century

Amanda Rogers

Doctoral Candidate, Emory University in Art History, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Research topic: Women's Henna Adornment and North African Islam: The Art of Religious Authority
Research topic: A History of New Media in Egypt 1919-1975