Research Associates
Don Babai
Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1984
(617) 495-7699
17 Sumner Road, 205
http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/publications/hmeir
Political economy of the Middle East; international finance.
Jocelyne Cesari
Lecturer on Islamic Studies; Research Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Director of Islam in the West Program; Senior Research Fellow at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
PhD University of Aix en Provence, 1991
8 Story Street
http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/research/iw
Jocelyne Cesari is a Research Associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Center for European Studies, and teaches at the Harvard Divinity School and at the Government Department. Dr. Cesari is a French political scientist, tenured at the French National Center for Scientific Research in Paris and specializing in contemporary Islamic societies. Before coming to Harvard, she served as an Associate Research Scholar and Visiting Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. At Harvard, she is Director of the interfaculty Islam in the West Program (see http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/research/iw). This research program produced a major publication, the Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States, which was published by Greenwood Press in September of 2007. She also coordinates the new web-based initiative on contemporary Islamic thinking called Islamopedia Online (www.islamopediaonline.org), and is the scientific coordinator for http://www.euro-islam.info.
Derya Honça
Research Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1995
http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/research/icis
617-495-1923
Harvard Kennedy School, R110B
Derya Honça is a co-founder and Program Manager of the Initiative on Contemporary Islamic Societies at the Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani
Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
PhD, Theology (1958), University of Tehran; PhD, Arabic and Persian Literatures (1961), University of Tehran
Dr. Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani is a scholar of Islamic philosophy (fiqh and usul) and of classical Arabic and Persian Sufi literatures. At CMES and NELC, Dr. Damghani works one-on-one with students of Advanced Persian and Arabic, both modern and classical, in reading and interpreting texts relevant to their program of study and/or career objectives. His publications include many scholarly works and articles on Persian and Arabic literatures, Sufi texts, and Iranian civic law. Prior to coming to Harvard in 1987, Dr. Damghani taught at the University of Tehran and the University of Pennsylvania.
Lenore Martin
Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Associate of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
617-496-4188
CGIS Knafel Bldg. room N222
Lenore G. Martin (PhD, University of Chicago) is Professor of Political Science at Emmanuel College in Boston, and is co-chair of the Middle East Seminar at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs as well as co-chair of the Seminar on Modern Turkey at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Professor Martin has written books and numerous articles analyzing national security in the Gulf, the larger Middle East, and Turkey, including: The Unstable Gulf: Threats from Within, Lexington Books 1984, New Frontiers in Middle East Security, edited, St. Martin’s/Palgrave 1999 and 2001, and The Future of Turkish Foreign Policy, co-edited with Dimitris Keridis, MIT 2004. She has lectured and made presentations on many scholarly panels and symposiums in the United States and Canada, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. She has traveled extensively in the Middle East and Turkey. In 2006 she served as a member the Carter Center/NDI Monitoring team for the Palestinian elections. She has received multiple grants for her research including from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Maurice Pechet Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences administered through the Kuwait Program Research Fund at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 2005 and 2006 she received Fulbright Senior Specialist awards for work in Turkey. She is presently working on issues of Palestinian-Israeli peace and the security challenges posed by the Turkish-Kurdish-Iraq-U.S. interrelationship.
Susan Miller
Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Davis
PhD, University of Michigan
http://history.ucdavis.edu/professor/susan_miller
Susan Gilson Miller is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. From 1991 to 2008, Prof. Miller directed the Moroccan Studies Program at CMES that brought outstanding scholars from the US, Europe and North Africa to CMES to lead seminars on Maghribi history and society. She also served as Associate Director of CMES from 1990 to 1999, directing the Master’s program in Middle Eastern Studies and coordinating three consecutive cycles of US Department of Education funding to support CMES activities. Her research and teaching interests at Harvard centered on the social and cultural history of colonial and post-colonial North Africa, with an emphasis on minority and urban studies. Her most recent books are Berbers and Others; Beyond Tribe and Nation in the Maghrib (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010), the outcome of a conference held at CMES in 2006, and a collective volume, The Architecture and Memory of the Minority Quarter in the Muslim Mediterranean City (The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and Harvard University Press, 2010). At UC Davis she teaches courses on North African history, Mediterranean history, and the History of Jews in the non-Western World. In 2011 she is completing a book on contemporary Moroccan history for the Cambridge University Press series on countries of the Middle East and North Africa. She holds a B.A. from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan.
Sara Roy
Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
1-617-496-9591
17 Sumner Road, Room 209
Sara Roy (Ed.D. Harvard University) is a senior research scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies specializing in the Palestinian economy, Palestinian Islamism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dr. Roy is also co-chair of the Middle East Seminar, jointly sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and co-chair of the Middle East Forum at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
Dr. Roy began her research in the Gaza Strip and West Bank in 1985 with a focus on the economic, social and political development of the Gaza Strip and on U.S. foreign assistance to the region. Since then she has written extensively on the Palestinian economy, particularly in Gaza, and on Gaza’s de-development, a concept she originated.
Dr. Roy is the author of The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1995, 2001, third edition forthcoming); The Gaza Strip Survey (The West Bank Data Base Project, 1986); Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (Pluto Press, 2007); and editor, The Economics of Middle East Peace: A Reassessment, Research in Middle East Economics, Volume 3 (Middle East Economic Association and JAI Press, 1999). Her most recent book, Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector (Princeton University Press, 2011), was a winner of a 2012 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies. The research for this book was funded by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Dr. Roy also has authored over 100 publications dealing with Palestinian issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has lectured widely in the United States, Europe, and Australia among other international venues.
In addition to her academic work, she serves on the Advisory Council of American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA), and has served as a consultant to international organizations, the U.S. government, human rights organizations, private voluntary organizations, and private business groups working in the Middle East.
Dr. Roy began her research in the Gaza Strip and West Bank in 1985 with a focus on the economic, social and political development of the Gaza Strip and on U.S. foreign assistance to the region. Since then she has written extensively on the Palestinian economy, particularly in Gaza, and on Gaza’s de-development, a concept she originated.
Dr. Roy is the author of The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1995, 2001, third edition forthcoming); The Gaza Strip Survey (The West Bank Data Base Project, 1986); Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (Pluto Press, 2007); and editor, The Economics of Middle East Peace: A Reassessment, Research in Middle East Economics, Volume 3 (Middle East Economic Association and JAI Press, 1999). Her most recent book, Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector (Princeton University Press, 2011), was a winner of a 2012 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies. The research for this book was funded by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Dr. Roy also has authored over 100 publications dealing with Palestinian issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has lectured widely in the United States, Europe, and Australia among other international venues.
In addition to her academic work, she serves on the Advisory Council of American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA), and has served as a consultant to international organizations, the U.S. government, human rights organizations, private voluntary organizations, and private business groups working in the Middle East.
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