The Center for Middle Eastern Studies supports: an AM degree program, three joint PhD programs, research, seminars and conferences, publications, and the Outreach Center.
CMES offers a two-year AM degree program in Regional Studies – Middle East. Our graduates pursue diverse careers in government, journalism, business, the non-profit sector, academia, and teaching. To learn more about our AM Program, please
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CMES offers three joint PhD degree programs in conjunction with the departments of anthropology, history, and history of art and architecture. Our graduates go on to work predominantly in higher education, and many become leaders in their fields. To learn more about our PhD Programs, please
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As the range of interests of CMES faculty, students, associates and visiting scholars is rich, varied, and crosses multiple disciplines, our areas of research are similarly diverse.
Our long-standing research projects and programs include:
Our more recent projects include:
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CMES offers a wide array of seminar series, as well as multiple workshops, conferences, and other events each year. Our seminar series cover topics from Islam in the West, to Modern Turkey, to Modern Middle Eastern politics.
Our conferences and workshops are often related to our ongoing research areas. In 2005/2006, we held workshops or conferences on: the socio-political trajectory of Iraq since 1950; science, technology and medicine in the modern middle east; 'Berbers and Others: Shifting Parameters of Ethnicity in the Contemporary Maghrib'; and comparative military occupations of Iraq, Palestine and Chechnya.
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The Center has three major publications:
We also publish many of our seminar, workshop, and conference proceedings, in the forms of audio, video and pdf files.
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CMES has one of the country's most dynamic outreach programs for educators, the media and business communities, and the general public. The Outreach Center offers professional development workshops for teachers; cultural programming for schools; a large library of books, videos, audio, artifacts, and curricula on the Middle East and its religions and cultures; downloadable lessons plans; and public lectures by experts in the field.
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