Faculty, staff, students and community across the state came together on April 14-15 for the NC Consortium for Middle Eastern Studies 2023 conference centered on “Border Politics: Bodies, Community and Ecology.” The 2 day event (also co-sponsored by the UNC … Read more
Celebratory news: Drs. Claudia Yaghoobi and Robin Visser have been promoted to full professor! We are deeply fortunate to have their knowledge and passion here in DAMES. Dr. Yaghoobi’s upcoming works include: Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora (forthcoming … Read more
Recently I interviewed Teaching Professor Fumi Iwashita, who teaches in the Japanese program with us, to get the scoop on everything from her classes to her cool hobbies. Read on to learn more about Professor Iwashita and all she does … Read more
Caroline Williams, a member of the first cohort of the DAMES graduate program, successfully defended her master’s thesis last month, the title of which is The Geo-Gendered Contradiction of U.S. Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency Policies in the Middle East. All of … Read more
Congratulations are in order: Dr. Yaron Shemer has received the 2023 Schwab Academic Excellence Award! The award recognizes one faculty member from each College of Arts and Sciences department in the arts, humanities, and qualitative social sciences. Selected faculty, nominated … Read more
Recently I interviewed Professor Yi Zhou about her research, all of which involves one of the world’s most popular beverages: tea! Read on to find out more about Professor Zhou’s research, and to have your thirst for knowledge thoroughly quenched… … Read more
Happy Lunar New Year, everyone! Speaking of the Lunar New Year, I recently interviewed Teaching Professor Lini Polin, whose CHIN 441 class participated in a local celebratory event for the new year at the Kidzu Children’s Museum. Please enjoy the … Read more
Recently I interviewed Trang Le, the newest staff member here at DAMES! Trang arrives on the scene to fill an administrative support role upon which the department heavily relies, not to mention deeply appreciates, and we couldn’t be happier to … Read more
A round of applause for Dr. Pamela Lothspeich, who has received a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship for the spring semester of 2024! In addition, Mimetic Desires: Impersonation and Guising across South Asia (University of Hawaii Press, 2023) was recently published, which Dr. … Read more
Best-known living Israeli poet Ronny Someck (translated into 44 Languages!) read and discussed his poetry in a public event at UNC this past October, and visited Professor Shemer’s classes the following day. Our own John Caldwell read the poems in … Read more
