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NEW TAARII PROGRAM: Research Affiliates in Jordan
TAARII is pleased to announce the creation of a Research Affiliate status, for U.S. scholars working on Iraq, while based in Amman, Jordan. As increasing numbers of American researchers undertake Iraq-related research in Jordan, TAARII aims to support their needs and work and to include them in the broader, TAARII community.
TAARII Research Affiliates will have access to a range of benefits, including:
• Access to TAARII’s growing research library and collections
• Access to the Internet, phone, and fax
• Temporary accommodation at the rate of $20 USD/night
• Kitchen and laundry facilities
• Meeting space for interviews or small conferences
Please note that because the TAARII residence is small, it is suitable for short-term stays only and must be reserved in advance.
To apply for Research Affiliate status, please submit a brief project statement, together with a CV, to
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. There is no deadline and scholars can apply for Affiliate status at any time, on a short-term or long-term basis.
TAARII ANNOUNCES FIRST RESEARCH AFFILIATE
TAARII is pleased to introduce Susan Macdougall as its first Research Affiliate, for 2009–2010. Ms. Macdougall has studied Arabic and social policy at Northwestern University, served as a Research Associate at The Center on Law and Security of the New York University School of Law, and is currently writing a thesis in cultural anthropology at the University of Arizona.
Her project is entitled “Displacement, Authoritarianism, and Subjectivity: Narratives of Iraqis in Jordan.” Through the collection of open-ended interviews and participant observation, Macdougall will continue research begun in the summer of 2009 to examine the coping mechanisms of Iraqi women displaced by the challenges of recent decades. In particular, she will explore the impact of change on gendered roles within the family and in the public sphere. Cooperating with the Queen Rania Family and Child Support Center, she considers the impact of refugee status on Iraqi women in Jordan. During the upcoming academic year, she will accompany Iraqi women in their domestic and professional lives, collect life stories, and seek improved understanding of the ways that varied traumas have impacted Iraqis’ social worlds both tangibly and intangibly.
TAARII ANNOUNCES BI-ANNUAL, OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION PRIZES
for Academic Years 2007–2008 and 2008–2009
One prize each for the modern and ancient periods has been awarded for the two-year period 2007–2009. Please see TAARII Newsletter Issue 05-01 for a more detailed description of the dissertations.
TAARII has awarded an Outstanding Dissertation Prize for the modern period to Juan Romero, for his dissertation entitled, “The Iraqi Revolution of 1958 and the Search for Security in the Middle East,” which he defended at the University of Texas, Austin. This work offers a detailed exploration of the pre-revolutionary social and political conditions, the Free Officers Movement, the events surrounded the July 14th coup d’etat, and the radically changed situation in the post-July 1958 period.
TAARII has awarded an Outstanding Dissertation Prize for the ancient period to Jonathan Tenney, for his dissertation entitled, “Life at the Bottom of Babylonian Society: Servile Laborers at Nippur in the 14th and 13th Centuries B.C.” This work addresses complicated issues surrounding slavery in ancient Nippur.
2010 U.S. Fellowship Recipients
Professor Sargon Donabed, History, Roger Williams University
“Documenting the Oral Folk Epic of Qatine Gabbara: Translation, Historical and Cultural Analysis, and Transmission”
Samuel England, Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
“A Vizier in Beggar’s Clothing: Abbasid Iraq”
Jill Goldenziel, Esq., Government and Law, Harvard University
“Refugees as Rents: Humanitarian Aid and the Politics of International Law”
Joshua Jeffers, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
“Tiglath-Pileser I: An Assyrian King Who Lit Up a Dark Age”
Dale Stahl, History, Columbia University
“The Two Rivers: Water, Development and Politics in the Tigris-Euphrates Basin 1920–1975”
Professor Jonathan Tenney, History, Loyola University
“The People, Politics, and Economics of Nippur During the 14th and 13th Centuries B.C.”
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