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Alexander Lubin, Director (al11@aub.edu.lb)
Alex Lubin received his doctorate in American Studies from the University of Minnesota in 2000. He is a cultural historian with interests in U.S. racial formations and U.S./Middle East cultural politics. Before joining AUB, he served as an Associate Professor and Chair of the American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of, Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 (UP Mississippi) and the editor of Revising the Blueprint: Ann Petry and the Literary Left, (UP Mississippi). He has co-edited a special edition of the South Atlantic Quarterly on Settler Colonialism. In this collection, Lubin contributed an essay on the comparative histories of settler colonialism and national formation in and between the U.S. and Israel. He is currently at work on a monograph entitled, Liberation Geography: Locating the Middle East in the African American Global Imaginary. This work excavates a centuries-long history of political and cultural exchange between U.S.-based Blacks and the Arab world. Lubin is particularly interested in how the "Palestine question" has circulated within spheres of African American politics and culture.
phone: +961 1 350000 ext. 4197
Fax: +961 1 744461
College Hall 452, 4th floor
Robert Myers, Former Director (rm33@aub.edu.lb)
Robert Myers is Professor of English and creative writing, whose areas of specialization include American theater and Latin American literature. Myers has a B.A. from Eckerd College in English and creative writing and a Ph.D. from Yale in Spanish-and Portugese-language literartures. He is the author of over a dozen stage plays, including Atwater: Fixin' to Die, about Lee Atwater; The Lynching of Leo Frank, about the Leo Frank case; Dead of Night, about the death of Fred Hampton; and Mesopotamia, about Gertrude Bell and the British occupation of Iraq. He has written about theater and culture for PAJ, Middle East Critique, The New York Times, and other publications. Reviews of his work and samples of his writing can be viewed at www.robert-myers.com.
Patrick McGreevy, Former Director (pm07@aub.edu.lb)
Patrick McGreevy is the Dean of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut. From 2004-2009, he was Director of the Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) at AUB. His research and writing focus on landscape and nationalism in 19th-century U.S. and Canada, and U.S. encounters with the Middle East. He is the author of Imagining Niagara: Meaning and the Making of Niagara Falls (1994) and Stairway to Empire: Lockport, the Erie Canal, and the Shaping of America (2009) for which he was recently awarded the prestigious J.B. Jackson Book Prize for American cultural geography in April 2010 by the Association of American Geographies.
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
Dr. Djelal Kadir Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Amy Kaplan The University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Stanley Katz Princeton University
Mr. Rami Khouri American University of Beirut
Dr. Scott Lucas University of Birmingham
Dr. Melani McAlister George Washington University
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Dr. Adam John Waterman English Department (aw06@aub.edu.lb)
Dr. John Pedro Schwartz English Department (js34@aub.edu.lb)
Dr. Joshua Andresen Philosophy Department (ja30@aub.edu.lb)
Dr. Sirene Harb English Department (sh03@aub.edu.lb)
Dr. Waleed Hazbun Political Studies and Public Administration
Department (wh20@aub.edu.lb)
CURRENT VISITING PROFESSORS
Marwan Kraidy, Edward Said Chair of American Studies, Fall & Spring 2011-2012
Marwan M. Kraidy is Professor of Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the Edward Said Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut (2011-2012). He is a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His publications include Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life (Cambridge University Press, 2010), which won the 2010 Best Book Award in Global Communication and Social Change, from the International Communication Association, and the 2011 Diamond Anniversary Best Book Award from the National Communication Association; Arab Television Industries (BFI/Palgrave, 2009, with J. Khalil), Hybridity, or, The Cultural Logic of Globalization (Temple University Press, 2005), and the co-edited volumes Global Media Studies: Ethnographic Perspectives (Routledge, 2003), and The Politics of Reality Television: Global Perspectives (Routledge, 2010).
Sam Haselby, Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall and Spring 2010-2011 & 2011-2012 Sam Haselby is a historian of American political culture. He was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (2007-10). He earned his PhD in history at Columbia University and taught at the Bard Prison Initiative and at The New School University. His book The Origins of American Religious Nationalism, 1776-1832, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. He has an article on a heresy trial, and its relation to the largest Native American uprising in U.S. history, forthcoming in the May 2012 Past & Present. He has also written for several popular publications, most recently on politics and religion in American history for The Guardian.
FORMER VISITING PROFESSORS
Robert Reid-Pharr, Edward Said Chair of American Studies, Spring 2011
A Distinguished and Presidential Professor of English and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Robert Fitzgerald Reid-Pharr holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale. Before coming to the Graduate Center he was an assistant and associate professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University. In addition, he has been the Drue Heinz Visiting Professor of English at the University of Oxford, the Carlisle and Barbara Moore Distinguished Visiting Professor of English at the University of Oregon, and the Frederic Ives Carpenter Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago. A specialist in African American culture and a prominent scholar in the field of race and sexuality studies, he has published three books and numerous articles in, among other places, American Literature, American Literary History, Callaloo, Afterimage, Small Axe, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Women and Performance, Social Text, Transition, Studies in the Novel, The African American Review, and Radical America. His research and writing have been supported by grants from the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Noel Ignatiev, Edward Said Chair of American Studies, Fall and Spring 2009-2010
Noel Ignatiev received his PhD from Harvard in the History of American Civilization. He is author of How the Irish Became White (recently reissued as a Routledge Classic), coeditor of Race Traitor (winner of the 1996 American Book Award), editor of Lesson of the Hour: Wendell Phillips on Abolition and Strategy, and author of numerous articles. He has been a fellow at the W.E.B Du Bois Institute at Harvard University and a Regents Fellow at the University of California-Riverside. When not at AUB, he teaches in the Liberal Arts Department at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He recently published A New Notion: Two Articles by C.L.R. James from PM Press.
William Marling, Edward Said Chair of American Studies, Fall and Spring 2008-2009
William Marling was the first Edward Said Chair of American Studies at CASAR, AUB during the year 2008-2009. He has been a Distinguished Foreign Professor in France, Spain, Austria, and Japan. His home is Cleveland, Ohio, where he currently teaches at Case Western Reserve University. His research focuses on American poetry, fiction, and popular culture, especially as they are influenced by art and technology. His current work concerns World Literature. He was formerly a financial journalist for Fortune and Money magazines. Dr. Marling is the author of five books, the most recent of which is How "American" is Globalization? (John Hopkins, 2005).
Adam John Waterman, Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall and Spring 2008-2009
Adam John Waterman was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) at the American University of Beirut during the year 2008-2009. He is currently a Fulbright Scholar and writer. He received his PhD, in 2007, from New York University, where he was a MacCracken Fellow in the American Studies Program. His work has appeared in Utne Reader, Bidoun: Art and Culture of the Middle East, and make/shift: feminisms in motion, as well as the forthcoming anthologies Phantom Pasts, Native Presence: Haunting in Native North America and Archipelagoes of Sound: Women, Music, and Transnational Caribbeanity. Prior to his service at AUB, Dr. Waterman held appointments in the American Studies Departments at Macalester College and the University of Virginia. In 2010-11, he will be teaching American literature in the English Department at the Université d’Alger. His blog, “The Dead Generations,” can be found at thedeadgenerations.blogspot.com.
Robert Ross, Visiting Professor, Fall and Spring 2007-2008
Robert Ross is currently a visiting professor at the Center for American Studies and Research at the American University of Beirut. He earned his PhD from the Department of Geography at Syracuse University. He has a master's degree in geography from University College London and a bachelor's degree in anthropology and sociology from West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Ross's research has concentrated on two general phenomena of contemporary and historical North American Cities: the industrial production of culture and the production of public space. His most recent research focused on the relations of production within the nineteenth century professional baseball industry. Dr. Ross is currently working on converting his dissertation on this topic into a book. He is also writing articles on the contadictions of industrial cultural production, labor geographies of scale, critical sports geography, and the illusion of so-called non-capitalist economic forms. he previously published work in Urban Geography, The Encyclopedia of Geography, and the Encyclopedia of North American Sports.
Marcy Newman, Visiting Professor, Fall and Spring 2006-2007
Marcy Newman is currently associate professor of English at Amman Al-Ahliyya University and was a visiting professor at the Center for American Studies and Research during Fall and Spring 2006-2007 at the American University of Beirut. She is the author of Beyond Slash, Burn, and Poison: Transforming Breast Cancer Stories into Action (Rutgers UP 2004)and editor of The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women (Rutgers UP 1992) and Jessie Redmon Fauset's The Chinaberry Tree and Selected Writings (Northeastern UP 1996). Currently she is working on a manuscript entitled Disrupting Zionism: Re-educating America About Palestine, which explores Palestinian models for disrupting in Zionist education in the U.S.
Susanne Wiedemann, Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring 2006
Susanne Wiedemann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at Saint Louis University. She received an M.A. in North American Studies from the John F. Kennedy Institute of the Free University of Berlin and holds an M.A. in Museum Studies and a Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University. Dr. Wiedemann is interested in the workings of U.S. culture across national borders. She is currently revising her dissertation “Transnational Encounters with Amerika: German Jewish Refugees’ Identity Formation in Berlin and Shanghai, 1939-1949.” Her research projects include a comparative study of U.S. and (East and West) German cultural policy in the Middle East, the role of photography and film in U.S. foreign policy, and vernacular World War II photography.
Khadija F. El Alaoui, Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring 2006
Khadija F. El Alaoui received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. She is Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Peace and Justice Studies in the American Culture Program at Vassar College, NY. Her writing focuses on the mutations of colonialism, especially within the current context of U.S.-Arab encounters. Her current project explores the intellectual conversations that revive the tradition of social, political, and cultural exchange between intellectuals in the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent. Her project also engages some American voices as part of this dialogue.
Nancy Batakji Sanyoura, Assistant to the Director (nb22@aub.edu.lb)
phone: +961 1 350000 ext. 4195
Fax: +961 1 744461
College Hall 453, 4th floor
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